Dr Wantanee Wattana, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), said on April 22 that the situation could get worse with the number of new cases likely to increase to 1,000 per day due to many cases not being reported to local authorities.
People watch after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at a shopping mall in Thailand in December 2022. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard/Bangkok Post)
However, Ms. Wantanee advised people not to worry about a resurgence of COVID-19 as most of the new infections are the old sub-variant, not the new Omicron sub-variant XBB.1.16 with the ability to spread quickly.
Ms Wantanee recommended that the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions should get the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca COVID-19 booster shots, which are currently being provided free of charge by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) at Vajira Hospital and 69 other public health centres across the city.
Thailand has recently recorded 27 cases of Omicron's new COVID-19 sub-variant XBB.1.16, and the country's health authorities are closely monitoring the spread of the new virus strain as well as the possibility of a COVID-19 resurgence after the traditional Songkran holiday.
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