22 Jan, 2021
The government on Friday reported 309 new Covid-19 cases – 297 local infections and 12 imported - raising the total to 13,104.
Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said the new cases included 80 people detected at hospitals and 217 detected through active case finding in communities.
In the group of 80 new cases, 49 were found in Samut Sakhon province and eight in Bangkok.
Active case finding detected 212 cases in Samut Sakhon, including 196 migrant workers, and five Myanmar migrants in Bangkok.
Of the 13,104 total cases, 10,224 or 78% had recovered, including 382 discharged over the past 24 hours, and 2,809 were being treated, he said. The death toll remained at 71.
Global Covid-19 cases rose by 664,932 to 98.09 million. The worldwide death toll was up 16,578 to 2.10 million. The United States had the most cases at 25.17 million, up 172,625.
