Thailand's Public Health Ministry hopes to declare Covid-19 endemic in 4 months; cases above 23,000 on Wednesday (March 16)


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BANGKOK, March 16 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Thailand is currently working on a Covid-19 transition plan in which the pandemic will be declared endemic in a span of four months.

The transition was decided upon after the Public Health Ministry learned that more than 90 per cent of people who had been infected with the Omicron variant were asymptomatic, although the number of new cases has been increasing fast.

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