2,028 Covid hospitalisations, 18 deaths as true numbers unreported

A further 2,028 Covid-19 patients were admitted to medical facilities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning – the government is no longer reporting the number of positive tests, in an apparent attempt to ‘endemicise’ the disease – while another 18 people lost their lives due to coronavirus-related complications.Continue Reading

BA.5 poses lung risk, says doctor

The latest subvariant of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus is really as harmful to the lungs as the previous Delta variant although it still mainly attacks the particular most vulnerable groupings — the unvaccinated and the under-vaccinated — says an expert from Siriraj Hospital.Continue Reading