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Thai celebrities, public figures warn of rise in new Covid cases

People celebrate the Songkran festival in front of CentralWorld shopping complext on Saturday. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)

The public is being cautioned about the risk of contracting the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.16 during the Songkran period, as the subvariant is believed to have caused a surge in Covid-19 cases in India.

A warning came from Dr Thira Woratanarat, a public health expert and lecturer at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University.

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