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Thailand on Monday (February 21) reported 18,883 new COVID-19 cases, 14,914 recoveries and 32 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.
▶︎ Infections outside prisons: 18,721. Prisons: 162
▶︎ Recoveries: 14,914
Monday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 2,731,198 with 22,656 deaths.
The news comes as respected virologist Dr. Yong Poovorawan said Sunday that COVID-19 Omicron variant infections are on the steady rise across Thailand, averaging 25,000 cases a day and the number may surge to 100,000 cases a day in the future.
Judging by the rapid transmissibility of the BA.2 sub variant of the Omicron variant reported in Singapore, where daily infections average about 15,000 in a population one tenth the size of Thailand’s, Japan’s or South Korea’s, he said that Thailand may soon fall into the same pattern.
(Source: – Asean Now)