More than 3,000 new cases

More than 3,000 new cases

Lettuce be careful: Traders at Simummuang Market in Pathum Thani. Many of them back a return to normalcy after Covid-19 infections are brought under control. However, tough preventive measures are required for visitors. (Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill)
Lettuce be careful: Traders at Simummuang Market in Pathum Thani. Many of them back a return to normalcy after Covid-19 infections are brought under control. However, tough preventive measures are required for visitors. (Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill)

The kingdom recorded 3,058 new Covid-19 cases and 22 deaths in the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced yesterday.

The vast majority -- 2,599 -- were among the general population and 459 were prison inmates.

Meanwhile, 4,094 people had recovered from the virus and been discharged from hospitals, it said. Since April 1, about the same time the third Covid-19 wave began, 148,984 people have fully recovered.

The kingdom has recorded 210,782 Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began early last year.

A total of 1,577 people have died since the beginning of the pandemic and 176,410 have recovered, the ministry said.

Debt relief: Mathura Oudniew, owner of Kodang Shabu Restaurant on Wutthakat Road in Bangkok, prepares 200 food boxes for a customer who placed the order after she said on Facebook Live that she was 400,000 baht in debt because of the Covid crisis. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration said yesterday that 22 new fatalities had been recorded, comprising 16 in Bangkok and six in Nakhon Pathom, Ayutthaya, Chachoengsao, Songkhla, Phrae and Phetchabun.

The 3,058 new Covid-19 cases included 2,580 local infections and 19 imported cases, it said.

Of the local infections, 2,044 were confirmed at hospitals and 536 via mass testing, it said, noting that the rest were among prison inmates.

Bangkok recorded the highest number of new cases (867), while Samut Prakan logged 239, Samut Sakhon 193, Songkhla 152, Chon Buri 142, Nonthaburi 138, Pattani 95, Pathum Thani 93, Nakhon Pathom 88, Nakhon Si Thammarat 67, Chachoengsao 65 and Prachuap Khiri Khan 50.

As of Thursday, 32,795 people were under treatment for Covid-19 in hospitals, including 1,360 who were seriously ill and 378 who were reliant on ventilators.

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