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Thailand on Tuesday (September 28) reported 9,489 new COVID-19 cases, 12,805 recoveries and 129 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.
◼︎ 12,805 recoveries
◼︎ 9,220 new infections
◼︎ 269 prison / prison infections
▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 1,552,552
▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,420,780
Tuesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,581,415 with 16,498 deaths.
The news comes as Thailand’s coronavirus task force on Monday approved a plan to procure a combined 3.35 mln doses of the COVID-19 vaccines of AstraZeneca and of Pfizer and BioNTech, a spokesperson said.
Should Cabinet grant final approval, 165,000 AstraZeneca doses and 2.79 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses would be procured from Spain and 400,000 AstraZeneca doses from Hungary, the spokesperson said.
No timeframe for delivery was provided.
(Source: – Asean Now)