Bangkok’s Chinatown was busy on Wednesday as people bought food to prepare offerings for the Chinese New Year on Friday. The same day, the country logged 201 new Covid-19 cases. (Photo: Chanat Katanyu)
The government on Thursday reported 201 new Covid-19 cases, 185 local infections and 16 imported, raising the total to 24,104.
Apisamai Srirangson, assistant spokeswoman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said 96 new cases were confirmed at hospitals and 89 others through active case finding in communities.
Samut Sakhon, an epicentre of the Covid-19 wave that began in December, again logged the majority of the new cases, 129. Of these, 73 were found in communities (62 Myanmar and 11 Thais) and 56 at hospitals (30 Thais and 26 Myanmar).
Bangkok recorded 17 new cases – 16 at hospitals (10…
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