Piercing the news issue 7HD – The situation of COVID-19 today has 7,587 new cases, 19 deaths, while the Ministry of Public Health A subspecies of Omicron BA.2 has been found in Thailand, 14 people have died, 1 person has died.
Dr. Supakit Sirilak, Director-General of the Department of Medical Sciences Ministry of Health Revealing the surveillance of Covid-19 Omicron strain BA.2 in Thailand that 14 people have found this strain, 9 people have traveled from abroad, 5 people have been infected in the country, and 1 person has died in the southern area. Therefore, it is not yet known whether there is violence or not. but has sent information of all species of Omikron to more than 7,000 people to the Department of Medicine to follow up Found that initially there were 7 deaths, or 0.1 percent.
For the BA.2 subspecies, no differences were observed from the BA.1 subspecies in their ability to rapidly infect, severe symptoms or dodge immunity from infection. or vaccinated, and the RT-PCR and ATK test kits can also detect
for delta species 127 subspecies have been found, some of which are delta plus. Plus the vaccination dodging position, but it is not very common. Watch out for any further mutations.
As for the COVID-19 situation today, there are 7,587 new cases, 81,299 people are in treatment, 519 are seriously ill, 97 were on ventilators.
The highest number of infected people was Bangkok hit 1,683, followed by Samut Prakan 644, Phuket, Chonburi and Nonthaburi ranked top for vaccination. Accumulated more than 113 million doses, which is the 3 dose, stimulates the immune system for nearly 13 million people, or accounted for 18.4%.
For vaccinating children 5-11 years old, the latest Pfizer vaccine for children. or the first lot of orange caps arrived in Thailand today And start injecting children with 7 congenital diseases on January 31, this is the first group, then the queue for elementary school students on February 1 next.