03 Oct, 2021
Thailand logged 77 more fatalities and 10,828 new Covid-19 cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning.
There were 10,724 cases in the general population and 104 among prison inmates.
Eighty-seven deaths reported on Saturday were below 100 for the first time since July 26. The trend continued to drop to only 77 on Sunday.
On Saturday, 11,894 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since April 1, when the third wave of Covid-19 began, Thailand has treated 1,608,569 Covid-19 patients, 1,480,741 of whom have recovered to date.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,637,432 Covid-19 cases, with 1,508,167 complete recoveries so far.
The death toll stood at 16,920 during the third wave and 17,014 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The kingdom’s all-time 24-hour high of Covid-19 fatalities was 312 recorded on Aug 18. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 13.
