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New Covid cases dip below 15,000, 252 more deaths
Bangkok Post
1/9/2021
Health personnel recorded 252 more Covid-19 fatalities and found 14,802 new cases on Tuesday -- the sixteenth consecutive day of significant caseload declines -- the Public Health Ministry reported on Wednesday morning.
There were 14,585 cases in the general population and 217 among prison inmates.
Over the previous 24 hours, 18,996 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus -- over 4,000 more than the number of new infections.
Since April 1, around when the third wave of Covid-19 began, there have been 1,190,668 Covid-19 patients, 1,013,342 of whom have recovered to date.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,219,531 Covid-19 cases, with 1,040,768 full recoveries so far.
The death toll stood at 11,747 during the third wave and 11,841 since the beginning of the pandemic early last year.
Source: Bangkok Post
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