Thailand logged 7,079 new Covid-19 cases and 47 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning.
On Saturday, 6,917 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Sunday afternoon that although Bangkok led new infections with 694 cases, six out of the ten provinces with the most new cases were in the southern region: Songkhla (460), Pattani (371), Nakhon Si Thammarat (349), Narathiwat (339) Surat Thani (244) and Yala (204).
Nakhon Si Thammarat also had the highest number of fatalities in the country at six, followed by Songkhla (5) and Bangkok (4), the centre added.
The country imported nine cases from Cambodia, Denmark, Russia, the United Kingdom and Australia.
More than 44,000 foreign travellers, led by 5,100 Germans, have visited the country since the reopening on Nov 1.
The Department of Disease Control said the infection rate among new arrivals was 0.12%, with visitors from Nigeria topping the group with two infections found among 30 entrants from the African country.
Since April 1, when the third wave of Covid-19 began, Thailand has treated 1,989,547 Covid-19 patients, 1,875,420 of whom have recovered to date.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 2,018,410 Covid-19 cases, with 1,902,846 complete recoveries so far.
On Saturday, 95,528 people received Covid-19 treatment at hospitals, including 1,808 seriously ill patients and 425 dependent on ventilators.
The death toll stood at 19,942 during the third wave and 20,031 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The kingdom’s all-time 24-hour high of Covid-19 fatalities was 312 recorded on Aug 18. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 13.
