Thailand Now at Day 35 with Zero Local Covid-19 Coronavirus Cases

Last updated on May 6th, 2021 at 09:18 am

Thailand’s health department has reported on Monday that the Kingdom has gone 35 consecutive says without a local Covid-19 Coronavirus case. However health officials have confirmed 7 imported cases with Thai returnees.

The 7 imported covid-19 coronavirus cases brings the total number of infections in Thailand to 3,169 with 58 deaths since January. All the new cases were Thai nationals in quarantine. They recently returning from India and the US to Thailand. There have been no local transmissions for 35 days Thailand’s health department said Monday.

Meanwhile, the global death toll from the Covid-19 coronavirus has topped 500,000, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Sunday.

The United States has had the most deaths with over 125,000, followed by Brazil at more than 57,000. The two countries currently account for about a third of the world’s total cases. Which on Sunday surpassed 10 million globally, according to the university tally. Britain, Italy, France and Spain came in next, followed by Mexico and India. The latter two nations are still seeing an upward trend in the virus’ spread. They have recorded 26,000 and 16,000 deaths, respectively. A total of nine countries including Iran have more than 10,000 fatalities. Japan has 972, according to Johns Hopkins University ใThe worldwide death toll hit 100,000 on April 10. Three months after the first case of Covid-19, was reported to the World Health Organization. The number of deaths doubled to 200,000 in 15 days, but showed some signs of slowing as it took 19 days to increase to 300,000 and 24 days to hit 400,000. But with the figure topping 500,000 Covid-19 Coronavirus in just 21 days. Following a jump in the number of infections from mid-June, the pace of the death toll is once again quickening.

According to Sunday’s WHO situation report, the Americas account for around half of the global infection cases and deaths, with the region reporting 62 percent of the new infection cases and 69 percent of new deaths from the previous day. The virus is currently spreading most rapidly in Latin America, which accounted for 38 percent of new infection cases and 55 percent of new deaths from the previous day.