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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
A plan to downgrade the Covid-19 status from a pandemic to an endemic disease faces a deferral for another week, as health authorities are keeping a close watch on new subvariants and the consequences of lifting restrictions. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) was set to decide on Friday whether Covid-19 should be declared an endemic disease. But the head of CCSA’s operations centre, Gen Supote Malaniyom, said the centre agreed to postpone the meeting for another week to give health authorities time to evaluate the situation of two new subvariants — BA.4 and BA.5 — and aft…