Chiang Mai Central Prison in Mae Taeng district, Chiang Mai. (Photo from the prison s Facebook page)
A male inmate died of Covid-19 in Chiang Mai province as the Corrections Department confirmed 1,429 more inmates contracted the disease over the past 24 hours.
Dr Weerakit Hanpariphan, deputy director-general of the department, said on Tuesday that the late 52-year-old inmate was at the Chiang Mai Central Prison. He had been diagnosed with Covid-19 on May 8 and received medical treatment since then.
Last Friday, the inmate was sent to Nakornping Hospital but his conditions did not improve.
He had suffered from diabetes, hypertension, renal failure and high cholesterol. Personnel of the hospital had taken the best care of the inmate he had been given antiviral medicines and put on a ventilator. The prisoner died at 5am on Tuesday, Dr Weerakit said.
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CHIANG MAI: This northern province has registered its 47th Covid-19 infection, a 46-year-old woman from Rayong s Muang district, Kittiphan Chalom, assistant chief of the provincial public health office, said.
Dr Kittiphan said the woman arrived by air in Chiang Mai from U-tapao, Rayong, on Saturday morning with her husband, their two children and a nanny.
They were picked up from the airport by her mother. They stopped to visit the family of the woman s sister before proceeding to stay at a house near the railway station.
The Straits Times
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UpdatedDec 28, 2020, 10:03 pm
PublishedDec 28, 2020, 12:21 pm SGT
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