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Thai Prison Clusters Send Daily Covid Cases to Record High
- Bangkok prisons report 6,853 new cases as infection spreads
- Government set to accelerate vaccination to quell outbreak
People receive a dose of Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at the Mall Bangkapi shopping mall in Bangkok, on May 14.
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Thailand’s daily Covid cases surged to a record with outbreaks in prisons, construction camps and densely populated areas in the nation’s capital showing no signs of easing, piling pressure on authorities to accelerate the slow vaccination drive.
The country on Monday reported 9,635 new infections, the highest-single day increase since the pandemic began, with 6,853 cases coming from prison clusters alone. The current wave of outbreak that started early April has added 82,219 cases, or about three-quarters of the country’s total case count of 111,082, official data showed.