{"id":13784,"date":"2024-05-02T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2024-08-09T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T15:15:51","slug":"update-on-covid-19-in-thailand-02-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/update-on-covid-19-in-thailand-02-may-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on COVID-19 in Thailand: 02 May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>Source WHO<\/p>\n<p>Since March 2024, data reported by the Ministry of Public Health on a weekly basis indicates that hospital admissions due to COVID-19 have been increasing. More recently, the increase has been more significant \u2013 with the latest information showing 1672 new admissions and 9 deaths in the week prior, with 390 seriously unwell patients of which 148 required mechanical ventilation in hospitals on 27 April. \u00a0\u00a0There is no evidence that current COVID-19 strains cause higher levels of illness; instead, the upsurge in Thailand is likely due to higher transmissibility of currently circulating virus strains and lower adherence of people to personal protective measures, including during Songkran festivities. A significant minority of people in Thailand also remain either unvaccinated or are incompletely vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/thailand\/news\/detail\/02-05-2024-update-on-covid-19-in-thailand--02-may-2024\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/thailand\/news\/detail\/02-05-2024-update-on-covid-19-in-thailand&#8211;02-may-2024<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002Source WHO Since March 2024, data reported by the Ministry of Public Health on a weekly basis indicates that hospital admissions due to COVID-19 have been increasing. More recently, the increase has been more significant \u2013 with the latest information showing 1672 new admissions and 9 deaths in the week prior, with 390 seriously unwell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-express-4","category-community-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13786,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions\/13786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}