As people in Thailand celebrate Songkran, the nation’s daily death toll from Covid-19 has breached the 100 mark for 6 consecutive days from Sunday to today.
This morning, the Public Health Ministry reported 119 new Covid-related fatalities and nearly 20,300 new infections nationwide, besides around 9,300 positive ATK results since Thursday morning, for a total of more than 29,600 cases, a monthly high. But the daily new infections has been trending down over the past week.
Yesterday, 115 deaths and more than 24,100 cases were reported. The ministry reported 108, 105, 101 and 106 deaths on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. But the daily deaths are still way below the peak of the Delta variant in Thailand last year when the Covid-related death toll reached 312 on August 18.
Sunday marked the first time the nation recorded a hundred daily deaths from the virus this…
