Thailand logged 149 more Covid-19 fatalities and 19,603 new cases over the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Monday morning.
There were 19,290 cases in the general population and 313 among prison inmates.
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) later said Bangkok logged the most new cases -- 3,114 -- followed by Samut Prakan (1,388), Samut Sakhon (1,378) and Chon Buri (1,318).
Bangkok and five neighbouring provinces -- Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Nakhon Pathom -- collectively registered 80 fatalities, while four southern provinces had 10 deaths, The remaining 55 deaths occurred in other parts of the country, including four in prisons.
The CCSA said 65% of the fatalities reported on Monday were people aged 60 or more. The centre’s figures from July 18 to Sunday showed 2,417 fatalities, 1,371 of them people aged at least 60.
"That is the reason why the Public Health Ministry is trying to inoculate senior citizens, bed-ridden patients, people with chronic diseases and pregnant women as quickly as it can," said CCSA assistant spokeswoman Apisamai Srirangson.
The country also imported 12 cases from abroad: three each from Malaysia and Myanmar, and two each from Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
On Sunday, 19,819 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals.
Since April 1, around when the third wave of Covid-19 began, there have been 747,245 Covid-19 patients, 527,908 of whom have recovered.
Since the pandemic started early last year Thailand has recorded 776,108 Covid-19 cases, 555,334 of whom had already recovered.
The death toll was at 6,259 in the third wave and 6,353 from the beginning of the pandemic.
The record high of Covid-19 cases in a single day was the 21,838 reported on Saturday. The most deaths that occurred in 24-hour period was 212, also reported on Saturday.
