The Public Health Ministry intends to make Covid-19 endemic this year because the current wave shows mild symptoms and people have cooperated with the vaccination drive.
Dr Kiattiphum Wongrajit, permanent secretary for public health, on Monday voiced the ministry’s plan, saying the new wave driven by the Omicron coronavirus variant spread fast but caused mild symptoms and low fatalities. Under the circumstance, the ministry should take action to make the disease endemic.
“The disease naturally reduces its severity by its own and everyone in Thailand is cooperating…
