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Thailand’s Covid situation is continually improving and is expected to be declared an endemic disease more than half a month earlier than expected.

According to the Ministry of Public Health, his office originally planned to declare Covid an an endemic disease on July 1 this year. Yesterday, the ministry’s Permanent Secretary Kiatiphum Wongrajit announced that Thailand now plans to declare the disease as endemic more than two weeks earlier than expected, sometime in mid-June.

The ministry said the situation in Thailand is continually improving. Kiatiphum said the Omicron strain is less virulent than the common flu, most infected people have no symptoms or flu-like symptoms, and vaccination rates have continued to increase.

An endemic disease is a disease which is limited to a certain area and spreads in a predictable way. There are four criteria for a disease to be declared…