AYUTTHAYA: Nineteen more Covid-19 infections have been detected in this central province, bringing the local total to 586.
Governor Phanu Yaemsri said on Friday that 270 of the total cases remained at hospitals, with four Covid-19 related deaths.
The province had a population of 822,955, with 185,359 elderly people and 72,355 people with seven existing health conditions, Mr Phanu said. These last two groups were deemed at-risk of infection and needed inoculation.
To date, 12,344 of them had registered for Covid-19 vaccination, the governor said.
He had assigned health volunteers and local leaders to talk with people in all households, no later than May 18, and to explain the necessity of vaccination to prevent the spread of Covid-19 disease, and encourage them to register for inoculation.
Authorities on Friday ordered the closure of a company in Wang Noi district of Ayutthaya after 16 of the 19 new infections were reported in this workplace.
Peera Areerat, chief of the Ayautthaya provincial public health, said the company has been ordered to close and the remaining employees were put into quarantine for Covid-19 testing.
The company has a total of 64 employees, of whom 16 tested positive for the viral disease.
