The government recorded 72 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, raising the accumulated total to 24,786 since the start of the pandemic in January last year.
No new deaths were reported, leaving the toll at 82.
Of the 72 new cases, 21 were diagnosed at medical facilities, 48 through active case finding in communities and three in quarantine.
Taweesilp Visanuyothin of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said just 16 new cases -- 23.19% -- of the daily total, were logged in Samut Sakhon, the epicentre of the country’s current Covid-19 wave that began last December.
All were confirmed at hospitals: ten Myanmar nationals and six Thais.
The other cases confirmed at hospitals were in Samut Prakan (2), Pathum Thani (1), Nakhon Pathom (1) and Khon Kaen (1).
The vast majority of the new infections found through active testing -- 47 of 48 – were in Pathum Thani. The nationalities of the 47 were Thai (26), Myanmar (18), Lao (2) and Cambodian (1), and all were linked to local markets.
The only other new case found through community testing was in Ayutthaya.
There were no new confirmed infections in Bangkok.
The three imported cases were quarantined arrivals from the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.
