The Centre for Medical Genomics at Ramathibodi Hospital expects the number of Covid-19 infections to start dropping towards the end of this month.
Dr Wasun Chantratita, head of the centre, said the current surge in Covid-19 cases in Thailand, especially Bangkok, is expected to involve the Omicron BA.2 subvariant which is more transmissible than the BA.1 subvariant.
Citing the spread of the Omicron variant in other countries, he said the number of Covid-19 cases in the kingdom is likely to start to decline around the end of this month.
Dr Wasun said the centre examined a total of 192 samples collected in Bangkok and surrounding…
