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Death toll tops 100 as Thailand logs 1,767 Covid cases, new record

Medical workers wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) register people during a mass testing event at a sports complex in Bangkok on Saturday. (AFP photo)

Thailand on Sunday recorded yet another daily record number of Covid-19 cases — 1,767 — bringing the accumulated number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began to 42,352. Two new deaths were reported, raising the toll to 101.

All but two of the new cases were contracted inside the country.

The two additional deaths pushed the toll in Thailand past 100. Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said one of the fatalities was a 54-year-old monk who suffered from multiple diseases and tested positive for the novel coronavirus after he died last Monday in Bangkok. The other death was of a woman, 70, who…

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