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Omicron now accounts for a third of Covid cases

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration recently opened a community isolation centre in Dusit district for Covid-infected children aged 5-12. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

There were 13 more Covid-19 fatalities and 7,926 new cases registered during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry said on Monday morning, with Omicron now accounting for more than a third of new infections.

This compared with 12 coronavirus-related fatalities and 8,511 new cases reported on Sunday morning.

Sumanee Wacharasin, hazard communication director of the Department of Disease Control, said in the afternoon briefing that the 13 new fatalities were between the ages of 30 and 89 years old.

“Ten out of 13 fatalities were unvaccinated or insufficiently vaccinated people,” she said.

Bangkok logged no new deaths while two…

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