Thai healthcare will buckle if Covid-19 surge goes unchecked, warns expert

Associate Prof Dr Thira Woratanarat, from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine. - The Nation Thailand/ANN

BANGKOK, March 12 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): With infections from the highly transmissible Omicron variant surging in Thailand, steps should be taken to stop the crisis from getting out of hand as it has done in Europe, a medical expert warned on Saturday.

Assoc Prof Dr Thira Woratanarat, from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine, said in a Facebook post that more than 455 million people across the world have contracted Covid-19 and over 6 million have succumbed to the virus.