A health worker administers a booster shot of Covid-19 vaccine at Fashion Island shopping mall on Ramintha Road in Bangkok on Thursday. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)
The Department of Disease Control forecasts that Covid-19 infections will significantly decline later this year, to only 200 cases per day in August.
The department chief, Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, told a media briefing on Friday the Covid situation should improve significantly in the middle of this year if there is no variant factor interference, especially a newly mutated SARS-CoV-2 virus strain.
Right now the rate of infection was rising in Thailand, but it would later decline under the principles of epidemiology.
The model projected the number of daily cases would be around 4,000 per day in June, 1,000 per day in July and below 200 per day…
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