Thailand on Monday reported 30 new Covid-19 fatalities and another 2,713 cases, bringing the accumulated toll to 806 deaths and the number of cases since the start of the pandemic to 132,213.
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said of the new cases, 2,507 were in the general population and 206 in prisons.
Eleven fatalities were recorded in Bangkok, three in Nakhon Ratchasima and another three in Ratchaburi, according to the centre. Samut Sakhon and Samut Prakan logged two deaths each, with a single fatality in each of nine provinces: Pathum Thani, Sakhon Nakhon, Tak, Ayutthaya, Chiang Rai, Surin, Chaiyaphum, Nonthaburi and Chai Nat, it added.
Bangkok continued to lead other provinces in new infections with 951 cases and Phetchaburi came second with 669.
Thai returnees from Cambodia dominated imported transmissions with 41 cases, followed by six from India, and one each from Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates.
CCSA assistant spokeswoman Dr Apisamai Srirungson said only two of the Thais returning from Cambodia illegally crossed the border illegally (back to Ta Phraya district of Sa Kaeo). The rest returned through the checkpoint in Aranyaprathet district of the same province.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha received his second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute, along with a vaccine passport.
