Thailand reports 19,983 new Covid-19 cases; total cases now goes above 756,000

A woman is receiving a dose of Sinovac's Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at the Narathiwat Hospital compound in the southern province of Narathiwat. - AFP

BANGKOK, Aug. 8 (Xinhua): After recording over 20,000 new Covid-19 cases for four days, Thailand on Sunday reported 19,983 more cases, according to the country's Center for the Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

The new infections took the nation's total caseload to 756,505, and the death toll rose to 6,204 with an increase of 138, the data from CCSA showed.