Tuesday Covid Update: 9,869 new cases and 92 deaths

Photo of Caitlin Ashworth Caitlin AshworthTuesday, October 5, 2021
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Today, the CCSA reported 9,869 new Covid-19 cases and 92 coronavirus-related deaths. Since April 1, in the latest wave of the virus in Thailand, the CCSA has reported 1,628,368 confirmed Covid-19 cases.

In the 24-hour period since the last count, the CCSA has reported 11,152 recoveries. There are now 108,373 people in Thailand currently being treated for Covid-19.

Out of the new cases, 273 were found in correctional facilities. Tens of thousands of inmates at Thailand’s overcrowded prisons and detention centres have tested positive for Covid-19 over the past several months.

More information and provincial totals will be released this afternoon.

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Soidog
2021-10-04 15:34
57 minutes ago, JackIsAGoodBoy said: Thailand might be actually doing pretty well in testing because in factories, offices and in homes they test everybody nearby if a case pops up or a hospitalization. In the West it is more or…
AlexPTY
2021-10-04 17:13
4 hours ago, Bob20 said: That's unusual. Monday's figures are always a dip (because of the weekend), yet today the number of deaths is up 26%... Let's see what tomorrow brings... was thinking exactly the same. we are not getting…
Jason
2021-10-05 13:55
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MikeTexas
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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.