PUBLISHED: 27 Apr 2024 at 04: 00
After infections soared during Songkran, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has given an order to native authorities to track Covid- 19 instances.
The prime minister and public health officials had raised fears about the possibility of a new pandemic, according to Deputy Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson Kenika Ounjit yesterday.
She claimed that if that transpired, regional officials had been instructed to make sure hospitals were prepared for possible people.
People who have cold-like symptoms are advised to wear a face mask in public, wash their hands frequently, and do an ATK screening test. People who fall under the so-called “608 at-risk party,” which includes older people, pregnant women, and those with seven high-risk illnesses, are advised to avoid contacting them.
Covid- 19 is now a communicable disease under the supervision of the Communicable Diseases Act, BE 2548 ( 2015 ), according to Ms. Kenika.
According to the Department of Disease Control ( DDC ), 1, 004 Covid- 19 people were hospitalised during April 14- 20, averaging 143 people a day. Most of the circumstances, according to the review, were in Bangkok and major holiday regions.
The DDC said that of those poor among the 608 at- chance people during this time, three succumbed to the condition, 292 suffered from pneumonitis, and 101 needed induction.
The National Institute of Health ( NIH) director Dr. Atchawin Rodjanawat reported that the majority of Covid- 19 circumstances discovered this time are now in the JN. 1 sub- feature, with at least 90 % identified with the thread- variant since January.
This Omicron sub-variation is discovered in the examples that the NIH collected from about 20 people per year.
The Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data ( GISAID ) record, which states that this variant can now be found worldwide, is linked to the data.
Dr Manoon Leechawengwongs, a cardiologist at Vichaiyut Hospital, said that despite the new thread- variant, the disease is now of poor severity, with the symptoms generally being infections in the middle part of the breathing tract, or throat and nose, rather than an infection in the lower part of the system– the lungs and bronchia.
The DDC has reiterated the need to wear face masks in people.