Thailand COVID March 1 – Thailand Ministry of Health reports 20,420 new COVID-19 cases and an additional 43 deaths since yesterday. The ministry also announced an additional 18,297 recovered patients.
The Department of Disease Control predicts that the cases could hit up to 100,000 daily by Songkran. This is based on the worst cases scenario. They also added that the cases could drop or rise for the next few weeks. This would depend on how strict the COVID prevention measures are implemented.
The measures include avoiding group activities, non-essential travel, and working from home. Maintaining a high vaccination rate is also very important. VUCA (Vaccine, Universal Prevention, COVID-19 free setting, and ATK) preventive measures are recommended.
The best-case scenario is when the precautions are fully implemented. This will result in the cases staying within the 20,000 marks. This could also mean that it would peak by the middle of the month.
If the current preventive measures will continue as it is, they predict that the cases will reach about 50,000 daily. This would be until the Songkran festival.
The worst prediction would be if there are no measures implemented at all. In this scenario, the cases will reach 100,000 daily until the middle of next month.
Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration spokeswoman, Apisamai Srirangson said that there are 213,645 cases being treated. 83,479 are currently hospitalized with 08% of them with mild symptoms.
She also recommended that those will little to no symptoms should stay at home. Seeking hospital admission would not be necessary. The hospital beds are reserved for severe cases.
Test and Go scheme has also revised the entry requirement. The fifth-day RT-PCR test initially required will be replaced by an ATK test starting today.
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