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Thailand discovered a total of 3,644 daily Covid-19 infections with 44 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, CCSA assistant spokesperson Apisamai Srirangsan reported this morning, June 25th.
The fatalities were 26 men and 18 women from Bangkok (20), Samut Prakan (12), Yala (2), Saraburi (2), Kanchanaburi (1), Prachinburi (1), Chantaburi (1), Samut Sakhon (1), Suphanburi (1), Pattani (1), Nakhon Sawan (1), and Chonburi (1). The age range was between 29 and 92 years old.
Most of them were reported with underlying health conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, kidney disease, strokes, heart disease, lung disease, obesity, and liver disease. Four of the fatalities did not reportedly have any health conditions.
Of the new cases, 2,803 were found in hospitals and medical services (which includes contact tracing cases), 648 were from a proactive approach at previously reported clusters, 162 were from prisons, and the remaining 31 were imported cases.
Regarding the non-prison local infections, the highest numbers of patients were reported in Bangkok with 1,142, followed by Samut Sakhon with 295, Yala with 215, Pathum Thani with 192, Samut Prakan with 186, and Chonburi with 183.
A total number of 257,103 people nationwide have received Covid-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours. Of that, 20,066 people had received their first shot with a Sinovac vaccine and 168,863 people had their first shot with AstraZeneca, marking a total of 188,929 people who received the first doses.
66,893 people had their second shots with a Sinovac vaccine and the second dose was given to 1,281 people with AstraZeneca, marking a total of 68,174 people.
As of today, 1,751 people fully recovered in the past 24 hours and have been released from field hospitals and quarantine centers. Thailand has now reached a total of 236,291 cases with 193,106 recoveries and a total of 1,819 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
At around 2:00 PM., Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O’Cha, as the director of the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), will chair a meeting with related officials to consider a potential lockdown in Bangkok after the number of domestic infections has been constantly increasing to thousands of cases in hundreds of clusters in the past weeks.
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