Covid UPDATE: 2,070 new infections, provincial totals

ThaigerFriday, April 23, 2021Last Updated: Wednesday, April 28, 2021

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Covid UPDATE: 2,070 new infections, provincial totals

2,070 new Covid-19 cases and 4 coronavirus-related deaths were confirmed today by the CCSA, raising the total number of cases since the outbreak on April 1 to 21,230 and this month’s Covid death toll to 27.

The reported number is the highest daily total ever reported in Thailand.

There are now 15,642 people being treated in hospitals for Covid-19, including 352 people who are in critical condition with with “severe pneumonia”. 91 Covid patients are on ventilators. Another 4,231 people with Covid-19 are in field hospitals.

Here are the provincial totals in an infographic from the NBT…

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Here are some additional notes, also from the NBT site…

• New small cluster of Covid-19 infection found in elderly care nursing home in Bangkok while Chiang Mai also found other small cluster in Meditation venue

• More personnel have been deployed to staff the 1668 and 1669 Covid-19 hotlines

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has personally vowed to support Thailand’s Covid battle and agreed to supply Thailand with Sputnik V vaccine via a “government-to-government” contract

• More provinces have ordered people to wear face masks in public in response to the so-called third wave

• The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is planning to establish more ‘hospitel’ (hospital/hotel) for patients without severe symptoms to cope with the increasing number of serious virus patients

• Thailand’s Immigration Bureau announced that its online service has been resumed (Thaiger readers are still not having much luck)

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