Thailand reports record daily COVID cases due to jail clusters

BANGKOK: Thailand on Monday reported nearly 10,000 new Covid-19 cases, a record single-day spike, after massive infection clusters were detected in the country's prison system, according to officials. The country reported 9,635 new cases, including 6,853 infections in prisons, according to the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). The new infections brought the country's total number of infections to 111,082, with more than 70 per cent of the infections having been confirmed since the beginning of April, when the third wave began and quickly spread across the country, reports Xinhua news agency. IANS

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