1,902 new Covid patients, 32 deaths as severe cases riseA health worker from the Zendai organisation takes a swab sample from a boy for a rapid antigen test in Bangkok on Jan 5, 2022. Although the number of new patients receiving treatment had steadily declined, the figures for seriously ill patients were going in the opposite direction. On Wednesday, 2,129 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus. Since the pandemic started in early 2020, there have been 4,584,070 Covid-19 cases, including 2,360,635 cases this year, with 4,528,820 complete recoveries to date. Global Covid-19 cases rose by 880,000 in 24 hours to 578.35 million.
