A research team from Mahidol University has estimated that the government's Covid-19 vaccination campaign over the past two years prevented nearly 490,000 deaths.
Built in the Neo-Renaissance style, Bangkok's Hua Lamphong railway station is a rare architectural beauty. The 106-year-old terminus was due to close last winter but rumours of its demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated, as Mark Twain might have put it. Six months after the shutters were supposed to come down, Hua Lamphong remains open, an outpouring of nostalgic.
The latest subvariant of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus is as harmful to the lungs as the previous Delta variant although it still mainly attacks only the most vulnerable groups the unvaccinated and the under-vaccinated says an expert from Siriraj Hospital.
The Public Health Ministry has urged people infected with Covid-19 who are self-isolating at home to comply with the 10-day quarantine period after reports that some people with the virus have not done so, putting others at risk.
The actual number of new daily Covid-19 infections may be as high as 50,000 compared with the official Ministry of Public Health figures, Nitipatana Chierakul, a respiratory disease expert with Siriraj Hospital, said on Thursday.