New clusters hit capital, provinces - Eight new Covid-19 clusters were reported in Bangkok and its surrounding provinces yesterday, taking the total of clusters in the capital alone to 96, says the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). Bangkok Post

New clusters hit capital, provinces

Eight new Covid-19 clusters were reported in Bangkok and its surrounding provinces yesterday, taking the total of clusters in the capital alone to 96, says the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of the CCSA, said two new Covid-19 clusters were reported at a sewing factory in Bang Kholaem district, where 627 workers were tested and 34 infected, and a jewellery factory in nearby Klong San district, where 46 infected people were found from a total of 281 workers.

Two new clusters were also detected in Samut Prakan at an ice factory in Bang Sao Thong district (17 cases) and a construction company in Muang district (167 cases).

In Samut Sakhon, two new clusters reported at a tyre factory in Krathum Baen district (5 cases) and processed sea food factory in Muang district (6 cases).

A new cluster each was reported at an auto parts factory in Pathum Thani (22 cases) and a military camp in Ratchaburi's Muang district (73 cases).

Dr Taweesilp said 3,174 new Covid-19 cases were reported across country, bringing the cumulative number to 228,539. More than 51 deaths were recorded, bringing the total to 1,744.

He said 1,941 have been discharged, while more 37,018 patients are still in hospital. He said 1,526 patients were in a severe condition and 433 patients required ventilators.

For the top-ten provinces, 956 new cases were recorded in Bangkok alone, followed by Samut Prakan (501 cases), Samut Sakhon (240), Songkhla (185), Chon Buri (142), Pattani (120), Pathum Thani (93), Ratchaburi (91), Narathiwat (89), and Nakhon Pathom (79).

There were no new cases found in 12 provinces -- Lamphun, Lampang, Ang Thong, Phichit, Yasothon, Sing Buri, Sukhothai, Phrae, Amnat Charoen, Mae Hong Son, Bueng Kan and Mukdahan.

From Feb 18 to Tuesday, 8.14 million doses of vaccines were administered across 77 provinces, of which 2.3 million people already received jabs.

The government had already either acquired or reserved 105.5 million doses -- 61 million of AstraZeneca vaccine, 19.5 million of Sinovac, 20 million of Pfizer-BioNTech and 5 million of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.

According to the Public Health Ministry, Japan has agreed to donate AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses to Thailand. Thailand was ranked 76th among the countries with the highest cumulative number of Covid-19 infections. Topping the list was the United States with 34.4 million cases.