Editorial
Though Thailand’s success in containing COVID-19 has garnered praise around the world, the government’s handling of the pandemic has prompted intense criticism inside the country.
Thailand has recorded around 75,000 infections since the start of the pandemic with just over 300 deaths, or around 4.3 deaths per million people. Thailand saw less than 7,000 total cases during all of 2020, and by the second half of the year, the country had largely returned to “normal” life.
Since the new year however, Thailand has been hit by its second and third waves of infections. New cases peaked at over 800 per day in late January, slowed to fewer than 100 for much of March and then spiked again to over 2,000 per day in late April.