Thursday Covid Update: 3,037 new cases; provincial totals

25 coronavirus-related deaths were reported by the CCSA today, raising the pandemic’s death toll in Thailand to 21,672 with 21,578 of those fatalities during the latest wave, which was first recorded on April 1.

In the 24-hour period since the last count, the CCSA recorded 3,037 new Covid-19 cases and 3,115 recoveries. There are now 33,399 people in Thailand being treated for Covid-19.

Out of the new cases recorded today, 81 were found in correctional facilities. More than 80,000 inmates at Thailand’s overcrowded prisons and detention centres have tested positive for Covid-19 over the past several months.

Since the start of the pandemic last year, the CCSA has recorded 2,220,324 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The latest wave has accounted for 2,191,461 of those infections.

Vaccination update

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