More than half of over 2,000 new Covid-19 cases found in Bangkok; 19 patients die

A medical staff member performs a nasal swab test on a resident of the Bon Kai community, one of the areas with the highest number of positive Covid-19 coronavirus cases in the capital, at a mobile testing clinic in a youth centre in Bangkok on May 4, 2021. - AFP

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported 2,149 new cases and 19 deaths on Saturday (May 8).

Of the deaths, seven were in Bangkok, two each in Samut Prakan and Pathum Thani, and one each in Nakhon Sawan, Samut Songkhram, Kanchanaburi, Chonburi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surin, Songkhla and Nakhon Pathom provinces.