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14,653 new Covid cases, 271 deaths Friday

Social distancing measures are applied on public buses and other public transport modes to stem a Covid-19 surge. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

Thailand logged 14,653 new Covid-19 cases and 271 more fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Friday morning.

There were 14,397 cases in the general population and 256 in prisons.

On Thursday, 18,262 Covid-19 patients left hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.

Since April 1, when the third wave of Covid-19 began, Thailand has treated 1,220,277 Covid-19 patients, 1,049,540 of whom have recovered to date.

Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,249140 Covid-19 cases, with 1,077,185 complete recoveries so far.

The death toll stood at 1,2280 during the third wave and 12,374 since the beginning of the pandemic.

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