Infections ‘under control’
Quest to find enough field hospital beds
The Covid-19 situation during the past 14 days has remained under control as the government tries to ensure enough field-hospital beds for increasing numbers of patients, government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana said.
Measures have proven to be effective in containing the spread of the coronavirus, he said, adding the public has been urged to get vaccinated as advised by public health officials.
He said home isolation now serves as the main approach to handling Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms as these patients account for about 90% of patients in the latest wave of infections.
Home isolation is not far removed from hospital care, as medicine, food and other necessary items are delivered to homes, and patients…
