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Covid situation improves, low infection rate in outbound travellers

People wait for a Covid-19 shot at a vaccination centre managed by City Hall at the Thai-Japanese Youth Centre in Bangkok’s Din Daeng district on Jan 8. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

The local Covid-19 situation is improving and the infection rate among outbound travellers is only about 4%, with vaccination stations for foreign tourists now open in 31 provinces, according to the Public Health Ministry.

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, permanent secretary for public health, said on Monday that the  Covid-19 situation in Thailand continued to improve. In the fourth week of this year (from Jan 22 to 28) there were 472 Covid-19 inpatients (67 per day) and 29 fatalities (four per day).

During the previous week there were 627 inpatients (90 per…

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