Thailand logged 9,930 new Covid-19 cases and 97 more fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Monday morning.
There were 9,568 cases in the general population and 362 among prison inmates.
On Sunday, 12,336 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since April 1, when the third wave of Covid-19 began, Thailand has treated 1,618,499 Covid-19 patients, 1,493,077 of whom have recovered to date.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,647,362 Covid-19 cases, with 1,520,503 complete recoveries so far.
The death toll stood at 17,017 during the third wave and 17,111 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The kingdom’s all-time 24-hour high of Covid-19 fatalities was 312 recorded on Aug 18. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 13.
