Thailand logged 14,176 new Covid-19 cases and 228 more fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Wednesday morning.
There were 13,670 cases in the general population and 506 among prison inmates.
On Tuesday, 16,769 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovering from the coronavirus.
Since April 1, when the third wave of Covid-19 began, Thailand has treated 1,293,656 Covid-19 patients, 1,138,938 of whom have recovered to date.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 1,322,519 Covid-19 cases, with 1,166,364 complete recoveries so far.
The death toll stood at 13,417 during the third wave and 13,511 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The kingdom’s all-time 24-hour high of Covid-19 fatalities was 312 recorded on Aug 18. The highest number of cases was 23,418 on Aug 13.
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