Veerasak: Break the bottleneckSAMUT SAKHON: Samut Sakhon governor Veerasak Vichitsangsri has ordered his provincial staff to break Public Health Ministry regulations about isolating Covid-19 infected people when lives are at risk. Sources say the message stemmed from a bottleneck of infected patients at isolation centres, resulting in more new cases and deaths. Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 453,132 Covid-19 cases, 312,377 of whom recovered. A new daily record of 13,655 Covid-19 cases, and 87 more fatalities, were reported on Thursday. Of those Bangkok logged 44 fatalities while there were five in Nakhon Sawan, four each in Samut Sakhon and Pattani.

Source: Bangkok Post July 22, 2021 22:52 UTC