Tak cluster sparks frantic bed scramble
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4 new field hospitals needed to treat 600
published : 30 Jun 2021 at 04:52
1 Security officials operate the checkpoint on Mae Tao-Mae Sot Road in Mae Sot district to regulate migrants movements to contain Covid-19, on Tuesday. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)
Four more field hospitals are being built in Tak as the two existing facilities are full after a cluster of more than 600 infections was discovered at a local factory.
Several infections were detected at a clothing factory in Mae Tao Klang village of Mae Sot district. It prompted local health authorities to conduct mass testing on 1,000 workers at the plant in tambon Mae Tao from June 25.
published : 29 Jun 2021 at 11:17
4 Covid-19 testing at a construction site in Chon Buri province on Saturday. The eastern province on Tuesday reported four more Covid-19 deaths and another 146 infections. (Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong)
CHON BURI: Four more Covid-19 deaths and another 146 infections were confirmed in Chon Buri province on Tuesday, 36 linked to a cluster at Sattahip morning market.
The provincial communicable disease control committee on Tuesday said the new infections brought the provincial total to 8,218, of which 5,384 have recovered, with 60 discharged over the past 24 hours.
The four deaths raised accumulated fatalities to 46, the Chon Buri provincial public health office said on its Facebook page on Tuesday.