Thailand on alert after record number of Covid-19 cases; New Year celebrations banned for a second year

Health workers talk with a patient via Facebook video chat at a monitoring room during a media tour at a Covid-19 field facility set up at the Ratchaphiphat Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. - Bloomberg

BANGKOK, April 12 (Reuters): Thailand on Sunday (April 11) reported 967 new Covid-19 cases, its biggest daily jump, but no new deaths as the country deals with a third wave of infections and a highly contagious variant.

Of the infections, 964 were domestic transmissions, including 236 in the capital Bangkok, the epicentre of an outbreak that has spread to most of Thailand's 77 provinces.