BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Phichet Panaphong, deputy governor of Phuket, said Phuket would like to be a pilot province where Covid-19 is relegated from pandemic to endemic.
For Covid to be treated as an endemic, the number of infected patients in a province must not exceed 1 per cent and the death rate should not be higher than 0.1 per cent, as per the conditions set by the Ministry of Public Health.
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