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Thailand likely to lower COVID-19 level

The downtrend of COVID-19 in Thailand is enabling the country to lower the pandemic level as scheduled, according to Thai medical experts.
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Bangkok (VNA) – The downtrend of COVID-19 inThailand is enabling the country to lower the pandemic level as scheduled,according to Thai medical experts.

Dr Yong Poovorawan, chief of the Chulalongkorn University’s Centreof Excellence in Clinical Virology, wrote on Facebook that the overall COVID-19situation is improving and the number of cases will continue dropping till theyear-end.

But infections will again spike during cool weather fromJanuary to March next year, though the spread will not be severe, he predicted.

Dr Yong said that vulnerable groups are strongly recommendedto get four shots of vaccine against COVID-19 while healthy adults under 60should get at least three shots.

Meanwhile, the Centre for Medical Genomics at RamathibodiHospital has confirmed the second case of BA.2.75.2, a sub-variant of Omicron, inThailand, after the first case was reported last week. BA.2.75.2 evolved fromBA.2.75, which started to spread in India in May and showed the most mutationscompared with other COVID-19 strains in the country.

The centre said there's no need to panic over the newvariant as long as people maintain COVID-19 precautions to prevent the newstrain from taking over BA.4.6 and BA.5 which are the dominant strains inThailand.

Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana, Palang Pracharath Partylist-MP, on September 19 expressed confidence that the downgrade of COVID-19from a dangerous communicable disease to "communicable undersurveillance" would not be disrupted.

Earlier, Thailand announced a plan to dissolve the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration inearly October, while considering COVID-19 as an endemic disease which is likeflu or dengue fever./.
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