BANGKOK, April 17 – RIA Novosti. In Thailand was on Friday, 28 new cases and another death from coronavirus infection COVID19, said at a press briefing at the government House in Bangkok, the press Secretary of the Centre for combating coronavirus infection Thailand Thavisin Vienojoties.
“Today was 28 new infections, we’re back to the lowest number since the epidemic began. 28 new infections, as it was on April 13. Unfortunately, another person has died of a coronavirus infection,” he said.
“the Dead – a citizen of Thailand, housewife aged 55 years, suffering from diabetes and hypertension,” – said Vienojoties.
“the Total number of cases since the epidemic began in Thailand is now 2 700 people, the number of deaths from coronavirus infection – 47, a fully-recovered – 1 689 people,” he said.
“I Want to draw attention to the fact that we have today for the first time in a long time, the number of patients in the infectious disease departments of the hospitals with a diagnosis of “coronavirus infection”, is less than a thousand: 964 people,” added the spokesman.
Sixteen new patients are already known clusters of infection, in 7 patients conducted epidemiological investigation, others have been infected by foreign citizens or by prolonged stay in small cramped spaces simultaneously with the infected, he added.
“reducing the number of cases per day and the number of patients in hospitals does not mean that we should now calm down and get back to normal life. In fact it means the opposite: the measures we have taken in Thailand against the epidemic, effective, and we need to continue to apply all of the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of infection,” – said Vienojoties.
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