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Thailand discovered a total of 18,066 daily Covid-19 infections with 27 additional deaths in the past 24 hours, the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported today, February 18th.
The fatalities were 18 men and 9 women with the highest deaths recorded in Bangkok with 8. All of them were Thai nationals. The age range was between 10 and 90 years old.
Most of them were reported with underlying health conditions, including hypertension (16), diabetes (10), hyperlipidemia (6), obesity (0), and kidney disease (6). Two of the fatalities were bedridden patients.
Of the new cases, 17,707 were found in hospitals and medical services (which includes contact tracing cases), 108 were from a proactive approach at previously reported clusters, 83 were from prisons, and the remaining 168 were imported cases.
A number of 149,589 patients are still under treatment/isolation/medical care. Of that, 755 patients are in critical condition including 182 on ventilators. This is roughly 0.50 percent of cases that are critical while 24.1 percent of that is critical enough for a ventilator.
Regarding the non-prison local infections, the highest number of patients were reported in Bangkok with 3,458, followed by Samut Prakan with 957, Chonburi with 811, Nakhon Sri Thammarat with 750, Nonthaburi with 596, and Phuket with 534.
A total number of 221,920 people nationwide have received Covid-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours. Of that, 45,829 people had received their first shots, 33,702 people had received their second shots, and 142,389 people had received their third shots. This is roughly 76.1% of the total Thai population who have had their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine, 71.0% who have had a second shot and are fully vaccinated, and 26.8% have had a third booster shot.
As of today, 12,511 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 2,674,477 cases with 2,502,323 recoveries and a total of 22,565 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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