(Photo: Chanat Katanyu)Thailand logged a record 312 new Covid-19 fatalities -- substantially more than the previous high of 239 -- and 20,515 new cases over the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, 22,682 Covid-19 patients recovered and were discharged from hospitals. Since April 1, around when the third wave of Covid-19 began, there have been 940,094 Covid-19 patients, 725,693 of whom have recovered. The death toll was at 8,191 the third wave and 8,285 from the beginning of the pandemic early last year. The previous high of daily Covid-19 fatalities was at 239 on Tuesday, when there were 20,128 new cases.

Source: Bangkok Post August 18, 2021 00:45 UTC