Thailand logged 26 more Covid-19 fatalities and 3,111 new cases on Thursday, the Public Health Ministry said on Friday morning.
Of the new cases, 2,957 were in the general population and 154 among prisoners.
The death toll rose by one from Wednesday while the number of new cases increased by 74.
On Thursday, 3,241 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since the pandemic started early last year, 2,223,435 people have contracted the coronavirus disease and 2,168,494 have recovered. All but 28,863 of the infections have occurred since April 1 of this year.
A total of 21,698 people have died, all but 94 of them since April 1.
The single-day death toll and new infections peaked at 312 and 23,418, respectively, on Aug 13.
The 26 new deaths reported on Saturday were aged 39-95. Bangkok logged four new deaths while a further three were reported in the adjacent provinces of Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani.
Other central plain provinces further from the capital recorded four more deaths — Chon Buri (2), Chanthaburi (1) and Lop Buri (1).
The Northeast had two fatalities in Ubon Ratchathani.
The South reported six more deaths — Nakhon Si Thammarat (2), Songkhla (2), Krabi (1) and Surat Thani (1).
The North registered seven new deaths in Chiang Mai (2), Lampang (2), Mae Hong Son (1), Tak (1) and Nakhon Sawan (1).
The 3,111 new cases included 2,845 local infections and 112 imported cases.
Of the local infections, 2,767 were confirmed at hospitals and 78 via mass testing.
Bangkok registered 430 new cases, followed by 310 in Chon Buri, 150 in Ubon Ratchathani, 113 in Samut Prakan, 103 in Nakhon Si Thammarat, 91 in Khon Kaen, 86 in Phuket, 63 in Chiang Mai, 62 in Udon Thani and 60 in Songkhla.
Of the 112 imported cases from 29 countries, 18 were from the United States, followed by 12 from the United Kingdom, 11 from Finland and nine from Russia.
About 90% of them entered the country through the one-day quarantine Test & Go scheme.
On Thursday 33,243 people received Covid-19 treatment at hospitals (down from 33,399 on the previous day), including 588 seriously ill patients (down from 626) and 148 dependent on ventilators (down from 161).
Global Covid-19 cases rose by as many as 1.87 million in 24 hours (up from 1.59 million on the previous day) to 286.86 million. The worldwide death toll went up by 6,758 to 5.44 million.
The US had the most cases at 55.25 million, soaring up by 565,987 (compared with 465,670 new cases on the previous day), and the most deaths at 845,737, up 1,354.