New COVID Cases Soar by 17,345 with 117 New Deaths
Thailand logged 17,345 new COVID-19 cases and 117 new fatalities over the past 24 hours.
Thailand logged 17,345 new COVID-19 cases and 117 new fatalities over the past 24 hours.
Phuket bans domestic visitors for 14 days except 12 groups of people including students and those who must receive their second COVID-19 vaccine jabs in the province.
The 1.5 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech and donated by the United States were delivered to Thailand at Suvarnabhumi airport.
Ten users of a COVID-19 vaccine booking system at the Bang Sue Grand Station were found to illegally sell vaccine bookings to people.
Heavy rains caused floods in many provinces and rescue workers were delivering essentials to isolated communities.
The United States planned to donate altogether 2.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Thailand, its embassy said.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha expressed his gratitude for Britain’s donation of about 415,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for accelerated inoculations in Thailand.
The Central Vaccination Center at the Bang Sue Grand Station is accepting COVID-19 vaccination bookings from people aged 18 years and over, elderly people aged 60 years and more and people suffering seven kinds of illnesses via four mobile phone operators from July 29 onwards and the inoculation was set for Aug 1-31.
Thailand reported on Thursday a daily record of 17,669 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total cases to 561,030 since the start of the pandemic last year.
The Food and Drug Administration has signed a contract to purchase five million doses of Moderna vaccine with Zuellig Pharma.
Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang said the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration set up 53 community isolation centers with altogether 6,013 beds.
A 39-year-old teacher in Prachuap Khiri Khan province died because of her pressed brainstem after receiving the second jab of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Department of Disease Control.