SPOTLIGHT
• On the 8th of January 2021, 205 new cases of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were announced by the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand (MoPH), bringing the total number of cases to date to 9,841.
• Of these, 53% (5,255) have recovered, 0.7% (67) have died, and 46% (4,519) are still receiving treatment or under
isolation. No new deaths were reported today.
• The 205 laboratory-confirmed cases reported today include 9 individuals who arrived recently in Thailand and were
diagnosed in quarantine facilities and 7 individuals who entered Thailand through the land border.
• The 205 new cases reported today also include 131 ‘local transmissions’, details of which are as follows:
123 cases are linked to occupation, visiting crowded places or had contact with confirmed cases, including Samut
Sakhon (37), Loei (4), Ang Thong (4), Lopburi (1), Buriram (1),…
