Thai health officials get one month to flatten third Covid-19 wave


Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): Thailand has sufficient hospital beds and medical equipment to handle the surge in Covid-19 cases, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced on Friday (April 16).

He said health officials have set a deadline of one month to control Thailand’s third wave of infections, which apparently spread from upscale nightclubs in Bangkok.Thailand registered a record 1,582 new Covid-19 cases on Friday.

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