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Hmmmm....... OK, the local publication said the opposite, but I guess more fake news. Thank you.

[Edit] I've just been back to the original report, and surprise, surprise it has been updated to say sales are still permitted.

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7,926 new Covid cases, 13 more deaths

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... ore-deaths

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

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Why even welcome unvaccinated people (unless they have a valid reason and there's very few reasons). Other countries insist on vaccination proof.

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7,133 new Covid cases, 12 more deaths

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... ore-deaths

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

The most sense I've heard in a while.

Ministry to make Covid endemic this year

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -this-year

The Public Health Ministry intends to make Covid-19 endemic this year because the current wave shows mild symptoms and people have cooperated with the vaccination drive.

Dr Kiattiphum Wongrajit, permanent secretary for public health, on Monday voiced the ministry's plan, saying the new wave driven by the Omicron coronavirus variant spread fast but caused mild symptoms and low fatalities. Under the circumstance, the ministry should take action to make the disease endemic.

"The disease naturally reduces its severity by its own and everyone in Thailand is cooperating with the vaccination drive.

"Consequently the disease can do no harm. Besides, there are effective operations for treatment and the slowdown of outbreaks. These will make it possible for the disease to become endemic," he said.

The ministry's strategy for Covid-19 in 2022 was to slow down outbreaks because fast outbreaks could otherwise overload heath systems and cause further mutation, he said.

Dr Kiattiphum also said the ministry had enough effective Covid-19 vaccines to realise the strategy.

Besides, he said, mild symptoms made it possible for those infected to be placed in home isolation and fully recover. The ministry had medicine and medical supplies to support home isolation and was ready to quickly admit people who developed severe symptoms to hospitals nationwide.

"When the disease becomes endemic, business and activities can quickly be restored," Dr Kiattiphum said.

He encouraged people to do universal prevention, receive vaccination and undergo antigen tests when they are at risk, while business operators have to ensure Covid-free setting and conduct antigen tests to help make Covid-19 become endemic.

Covid will be endemic whether the ministry wants it or not. The question is whether it will remain as the milder omicron strain, and, if not, what next?

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Tuesday January 11th.
Infographic from Scandinavian Facebook page: Thaipodden

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7,681 new Covid cases, 22 more deaths

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... ore-deaths

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

So cases have been dropping over the last few days, but deaths which have been steady for the last week or so see a relatively big jump yesterday to 22!
Maybe some detail will emerge.

HHTel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:12 am So cases have been dropping over the last few days, but deaths which have been steady for the last week or so see a relatively big jump yesterday to 22!
Maybe some detail will emerge.

That seems to be bad number. SAT-MOPH that was updated after the BKK Post report has 19.

Most of the critical and ventilator are going to end up as deaths unfortunately. Those two numbers are not going up with this new wave so far, and are trending down each day.

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