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181 cases of new Omicron subvariants

A health official takes a nasal swab for a Covid-19 test in Bangkok’s Sai Mai district. (File photo: Apichit Jinakul)

Thailand has 181 recorded cases of Covid-19's latest worrisome subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, which are similar to the Delta variant and therefore potentially harmful to a patient's lungs, according to the Department of Medical Sciences.

Director-general Supakit Sirilak said on Friday that there had been 181 cases of BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the Omicron variant and they posed risks of infection clusters.

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