Critics have voiced concerns over reports that the Ministry of Public Health will cease providing daily bulletins containing the number of new Covid-19 infections over the preceding 24-hour period, saying members of the public have the right to be kept abreast of the situation without having to seek the information themselves online.
Dr Kiatiphum Wongrajit, permanent secretary for public health, has said the daily update on the number of new confirmed Covid-19 cases would possibly end soon as health authorities change the focus of their briefings to the emergence of new clusters of what is thought will soon be classified an endemic disease.
Currently, about 60% of all people infected with the virus are receiving care under the government’s Home and Community Isolation programme, he said.
“The figures are already out of date when we announce them. So what’s the…
