The country had a record high of 91 new Covid-19 fatalities and 9,326 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Saturday morning.

Phayathai Hospital uses page on regional e-commerce site to take vaccine bookings

Hundreds of people who were turned away when they arrived to get the Covid-19 vaccines last week were informed by phone and on the Pattaya City website on Wednesday, July 7, that they could get vaccinated the next day.

The only thing Pattaya officials and local tourism companies and associations could agree on at their latest meeting was that the city needs to reopen to foreign tourists soon. How to make that happen, however, remains a mystery.

There were 72 Covid-19 fatalities and 9,276 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday. Thirty-nine of the deaths were in Bangkok and the average age was 66 years.

In a bid to handle soaring Covid-19 cases in the capital, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) opened a community isolation centre inside Bangkok Noi’s Wat Sri Sudaram temple on Friday.

A proposed bridge across the Chao Phraya River designed to ease traffic congestion around the new parliament complex has given the project the green light.

The Department of Health posed the question "Are you ready for lockdown?" on its Facebook page on Thursday, triggering a flood of comments from members of the public.

A record 75 Covid-19 fatalities and 7,058 new cases were reported on Thursday, as the continuing surge in Covid-19 cases spread to provinces throughout the kingdom.

The Phuket Sandbox programme, since its launch on 1 July, attracted 32 inbound flights from Europe, the Middle East and Asia, bringing 1,896 foreign arrivals to the tourist island

New daily cases tipped for 10,000

Foreigners living in Thailand can now register for their Covid-19 vaccine directly with Phyathai 2 and Samitivej Sukhumvit hospitals since the Thailandintervac.com website is out of commission.

As daily COVID-19 infections and deaths continue to surge in recent weeks, Thai authorities have decided to convert the country’s major airport into a field hospital.

The following is a press release from the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Their statements are their own.

Number of patients dependent on ventilators doubles