Thailand’s Covid-19 Coronavirus Cases Surpass One Million Mark

Thailand’s Government Health Ministry said on Friday There were 240 new Covid-related fatalities and 19,851 new cases over the past 24 hours taking the total number of coronavirus cases over a million.

Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,009,710 Covid-19 cases, 795,805 of whom have completely already recovered. The total death toll from the beginning of the pandemic early last year as of Friday sits at 8,826.

The first domestic case on Jan 12 last year was a 61-year Chinese woman from Wuhan where Covid-19 had first been detected the previous month. Then, the first Thai to test positive was on Jan 31 after a 50-year-old taxi driver drove an infected arrival from Wuhan to hospital.

The president of the Rural Doctors Society on Friday said there are several lessons the country must learn from the mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis after…