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Bangkok Ranked Second-Tier Covid Risk as Thai Lockdown Held Off

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Thailand’s capital was rated a second-tier coronavirus risk zone as the government stopped short of imposing wider restrictions to stem an outbreak of infections that erupted in a nearby coastal province.

The country reported 67 new coronavirus cases Thursday, of which 58 were locally transmitted, taking Thailand’s total recorded infections to 5,829. About a fifth of the total cases were reported in the past week, with more than 1,300 added since Sunday after a cluster was found in Samut Sakhon province neighboring Bangkok.

“Thailand is ready to cope with the current outbreak situation,” Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha said at a briefing…

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