Thailand's daily coronavirus-releated deaths dropped from 37 to 31, the fewest since Feb 20, the Public Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Confirmed new cases fell to 4,739, down from 5,377 the previous day. However, antigen tests produced a further 5,808 positive results, which would raise the total to 10,547.
As of Saturday, a total of 55,792 people were receiving Covid-19 treatment, including 20,487 in hospitals. The remainder were in hospitel facilities (5,504) or in home/community isolation (29,526), according to the daily update posted by the Department of Disease Control.
Of those in hospital, 1,031 were seriously ill patients with lung inflammation and 509 dependent on ventilators.
Of the seriously ill patients, Bangkok had the most cases at 103, followed by 62 in Ubon Ratchathani, 55 in Suphan Buri, 53 in Nakhon Ratchasima and 41 in Chaiyaphum.
Over the previous 24 hours, 7,391 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
(Screenshot from https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/thailand)
According to the CCSA, the 31 people who died were aged from 34 to 105 with an average age of 79. All were Thais.
Bangkok logged four new deaths and there were two in adjacent provinces — Nakhon Pathom and Pathum Thani.
Other central plains provinces further from the capital had five deaths in five provinces — Ayutthaya, Samut Songkhram, Rayong, Suphan Buri and Phetchaburi.
The North reported seven deaths, led by two in Nan and one each in Lamphun, Lampang, Chiang Mai, Sukhothai and Kamphaeng Phet.
The Northeast saw 11 new fatalities — five in Nakhon Ratchasima, two in Roi Et, and one each in Khon Kaen, Si Sa Ket, Sakon Nakhon and Yasothon.
The South had two deaths in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Pattani.
75% of Thais have at least two shots
Vaccinations continued to progress, with 136.54 million doses administered as of Saturday. The government said 81.4% of the population has now received at least one dose of the vaccine, 75.2% at least two shots and 39.7% at least one booster shot.
On Saturday alone, 275,672 vaccine doses were administered — 30,162 as a first shot, 100,700 as a second shot and 144,740 as a booster shot.
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 4,411,494 Covid-19 cases, including 2,188,059 cases this year, with 4,325,956 complete recoveries to date.
The accumulated death toll stood at 29,746 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 8,048 so far this year.
The highest number of Covid-related fatalities in a 24-hour period was 312 recorded on Aug 13, 2021. The highest number of cases was 28,379 on April 1, 2022.
