Delta variant now accounts for nearly 10 per cent of Bangkok infections


A health worker manages as people wait to receive the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine at Thai-Japan Bangkok Youth Center in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 14, 2021. - AP

BANGKOK (The Nation/ANN): A total of 496 cases of Covid-19’s Delta variant were detected in Thailand from April 7 to June 13, the Department of Medical Sciences revealed on Wednesday (June 16).

Bangkok is the epicentre of the Delta outbreak with 404 cases, said the department’s director-general Dr Supakit Sirilak. Ten of these cases were found in 3 or 4 hospitals in the centre of the city, he added.

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