Monday Covid Update: 10,288 new cases and 101 deaths

Caitlin AshworthPublished: 09:51, 27 September 2021| Updated: 09:51, 27 September 2021

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Monday Covid Update: 10,288 new cases and 101 deaths — Photo via Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

Photo via Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

Today, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration reported 10,288 new covid-19 cases and 101 coronavirus-related deaths. Since April 1, in Thailand’s latest wave of the virus, 1,543,063 confirmed Covid-19 cases have been reported. In the 24-hour period since the last count, the CCSA has reported 12,494 recoveries. There are now 120,156 people in Thailand currently receiving medical treatment for Covid-19.

Out of the new cases reported today, 127 were found in correctional facilities. Over the past several months, tens of thousands of inmates at Thailand’s overcrowded prisons and detention centres have tested positive for Covid-19, and new cases have been reported on a daily basis.

Caitlin Ashworth

Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.