The government on Tuesday recorded 527 new cases of the novel coronavirus, all but six of them local transmissions, for a total of 8,966 since the start of the pandemic in January 2020.
No new deaths were reported, leaving the accumulated toll at 65.
Tuesday’s additional caseload was smaller than the record 745 new cases recorded on Monday. That number was boosted by more than 500 cases in Samut Sakhon, the epicentre of the latest outbreak.
Centre for Covid Situation Analysis (CCSA) spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said the new cases included 439 migrant…