Prof. Dr. Prasit Wattanapha, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Announcement on the situation of COVID-19 by specifying now around the world in the downtrend Epidemics and deaths are dwindling.
From the data, it was found that the European continent was declining quite slowly. America is rapidly declining. southeast asia and the western Pacific began to decline. But in summary, many areas began to decline steadily.
As for neighboring countries of the region of interest, Vietnam has less infections on average than Thailand. But the mortality rate is very low. Malaysia also has fewer deaths. Singapore is in a downtrend
Prof. Dr. Prasit Emphasize that the booster vaccination is still important. Countries that can control covid because the booster vaccination exceeds 50 percent.
for the situation in Thailand 132 million doses of vaccination from a population of 70 million, 36.6% of booster shots, still far from 50 percent.
Now, the number of new infections per day from over 20,000 cases has dropped to over ten thousand. But it appears that the mortality rate has not decreased. The daily average is still higher than 100 cases.
Most of the deceased were still elderly people. chronically ill and the unvaccinated group, which is still more than 2 million people, 50-60% of the deaths belong to this group.
Another worrying point The fatalities each day included young children under the age of five.
Regarding this matter, Prof. Dr. Yong Phuworawan, the chief specialist in virus Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University Contribute and express concerns
It was identified following an outbreak of omikron strains since January. Basic information of the Ministry of Public Health Of the 51 children, 39 were under the age of five, and only 12 were aged 5 and over.
Of these, the normal children had no underlying disease and died. Most of them are young children. Most of the older children died of congenital disease. even if the child is infected with covid less violence than adults or the elderly But if the child ends up dead therefore definitely not normal
Therefore, it is another loophole that requires the government to adjust measures to reduce the mortality rate. especially in children Human resources of the nation’s future