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Bangkok Post
Bangkok Post
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'Endemic' status still some way off: expert

A woman sits between two orangutans squirting water at Safari World in Bangkok, which kicked off an early Songkran celebration. The animal theme park heralds in the traditional Thai New Year with its ‘Elephant Songkran Festival’ as highlight. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

The kingdom is expected to record about 100,000 new Covid-19 cases per day following the Songkran holiday, according to Dr Prasit Watanapa, dean of Siriraj Hospital's medical school under Mahidol University.

According to government figures, 50–60% of Covid-19 patients who died in the past 30 days were unvaccinated, while 30% received a second dose more than three months before and 5–10% had been inoculated with a single dose.

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