People seek testing for Covid-19 in Nong Chok district of Bangkok on Monday. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)
The Delta variant of Covid-19 has spread to all 77 provinces, along with four sub-variants that have not shown themselves to be especially harmful mutations yet, a senior medical official said on Tuesday.
Dr Supakit Sirilak, director-general of the Department of Medical Sciences, said the Delta variant had spared Suphanburi province until this week, but had now been detected there.
It was now found in all provinces and was the dominant variant found in 93% of sampled Covid-19 cases nationwide.
He said widespread outbreaks of a variant naturally led to sub-variants. However, they were not Thai variants because they had been previously found in Britain, Denmark, France, Spain and the United States, he…
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