BANGKOK, Total COVID-19 cases in Thailand topped three million yesterday, driven primarily by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, which resulted in recent soaring infections.

The daily case tally has been over 20,000 for 11 days in a row. With 22,818 new infections registered over the last 24 hours. Thailand’s total tally stood at 3,004,814, according to the country’s health ministry.

Reaching a record high of new infections for three consecutive days, in late Feb, the spreading of the Omicron variant in Thailand seemed faster than it was during the peak of last fall’s Delta wave.

However, the country hasn’t yet seen a similarly steep rise in cases, as seen in some other countries, partly because of the high vaccination rate nationwide, according to the World Health Organisation’s Thailand office.

Official data also showed, the daily death toll remained low, compared to the record of 312 fatalities set last Aug. The cumulative death in the country rose by 52 to 23,176, yesterday.

To date, around 71.7 percent of the country’s nearly 70 million population had been fully vaccinated, while 30.1 percent had received booster shots.

Source: Nam News Network