The country registered 20 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,025 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.
This compared with the 23 coronavirus-related fatalities and 1,795 new cases reported on Friday morning.
The ministry reported that the new case numbers did not include 149,537 positive results from antigen tests conducted outside hospitals and other medical settings between July 3 and 9, 2022.
The new case numbers did not include 3,489 positive results from antigen tests over the previous 24 hours, which would raise the total to 5,997.
The new infections announced Saturday comprised 2,013 in the general population, 10 among prison inmates and two imported cases.
Screenshot from https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/thailand
As of midnight Friday, a total of 23,867 people were receiving Covid-19 treatment (down from 24,043 the previous day), including 10,511 in hospitals (up from 10,377). Among the remainder, 960 were in field hospitals or hospitel facilities (down from 1,109) and 12,365 in home/community isolation (down from 12,517) while 31 others were not specified.
Of those in hospital, 785 were seriously ill patients with lung inflammation (down from 789), and 352 were dependent on ventilators (up from 348).
The 24-hour period also saw 2,181 patients discharged from hospitals after recovering.
Vaccinations continued to progress, with 140.67 million doses administered as of Friday. 82.0% of the population have now received one dose of the vaccine and 76.7% have received two shots, while 43.5% have got a booster shot, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
On Friday alone, 23,699 vaccine doses were administered — 1,548 as a first shot, 2,497 as a second shot and 19,654 as a booster shot.
Screenshot from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/
Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 4,557,001 Covid cases, including 2,333,566 this year, with 4,502,156 complete recoveries to date.
The accumulated death toll stood at 30,681 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 9,280 so far this year.
Global Covid-19 cases rose by 773,559 in 24 hours to 566.31 million. The worldwide death toll went up 1,540 to 6.38 million.
The United States had had the most cases at 91.17 million, up 94,037. Thailand ranked 27th globally with 4.55 million cases.
