Thai Health Ministry maintains COVID 19 alert

Seating arrangements and acrylic shields were installed to prevent the spread of COVID 19 coronaviruses and to keep social distance between nurses and patients at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration General Hospital, a public hospital in Bangkok. ILO Alin Sirisaksopit flickr. BANGKOK, January 21 TNA The Public Health Ministry maintains its Level 4 COVID 19 alert, but shares the worldwide expectation that the disease will become endemic.

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Department of Disease Control, said the ministry did not lower its COVID 19 alert and continued to campaign for strict compliance with the proper disease controls imposed for different zones of COVID 19 situations.

He said that the ministry shared the global expectation of the disease to become endemic and humans to coexist with it because its Omicron variant spread rapidly but was less severe and fatalities related to the variant were limited, he said.