"Covid-19"

AstraZeneca today finalised an agreement with Thailand’s Department of Disease Control to supply 257,500 doses of the long-acting antibody (LAAB) combination (tixagevimab and cilgavimab) AZD7442, aimed at protecting immunocompromised individuals from developing symptomatic COVID-19, with the first delivery scheduled for within the third quarter this year.

Students will become Covid-19 spreaders after the opening of the new semester, causing the disease to spread further, expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan said on Wednesday.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration believes the number of Covid-19 infections will increase significantly in the next month and has instructed authorities to increase disease control measures, especially among school children.

Ministry of Public Health reported on Wednesday (July 6) morning that in the past 24 hours there are 2,428 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, three of whom have arrived in Thailand from abroad.

The Public Health Ministry has issued an eight-point order to hospitals and instructed them to prepare for a new wave of Covid-19. The preparation order was issued after a rise in the infection rate driven by cases of the new Omicron BA.4 and 5 subvariants.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) will on Friday ask the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to consider reducing isolation days for asymptomatic Covid patients from seven to five.

Covid-19 insurance claims for over 500 million baht have been made by people using falsified documents since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Thai General Insurance Association said.

Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob has tested positive for Covid-19, and is down with mild flu-like symptoms. She announced on her Facebook wall.

Three Covid-19 jabs may be enough to prevent severe symptoms from the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, a virologist said.

Hospitals across the nation should be prepared to deal with a new Covid-19 wave, the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) said in a Facebook post on Monday citing the Public Health Ministry’s recent announcement.

The number of Covid-19 patients with mild or no symptoms, categorised as “green patients”, will surge 10-fold due to the easing of disease-control measures, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) reckons.

Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday (July 5) morning that in the past 24 hours there are 1,917 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, three of whom have arrived in Thailand from abroad.