After Thailand’s number of daily Covid-19 infections went above 10,000 this weekend, the government plans to change how it does daily reports.
In a two-day a week test, the government reports will only focus on deaths and serious cases where people needed to be hospitalized with ventilators, or had pneumonia. The Ministry of Public Health says that even though infections are rising, the number of deaths and serious cases is stable. The government says this new way of reporting Covid-19 in Thailand is meant to lessen public anxiety.
With vaccines, Thailand’s Covid-19 death rate has gone down from 2% to 0.2%. The ministry says it wants to create a public understanding that people can balance their lives and live with Covid safely and many who catch the virus are asymptomatic. People who do have symptoms and need to be treated can often go home after just a few days.
The ministry…
