143 new coronavirus cases have been reported in Thailand on Sunday, bringing the total number of cases to 1338.
Moreover, the county has so far registered 7 deaths.
The government on Saturday said that the increasing number of infections was due to people failing to practice social distancing.
In addition, twenty-two revelers at a drug party in Chiang Rai were arrested on Saturday for gathering in defiance of the nationwide Emergency Decree.
Authorities have imposed a lockdown in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat, while authorities on the resort island of Phuket have asked people to stay home from 8 pm to 3 am in a new restriction on movement to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
It is worth mentioning that, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 121,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
According to the organization, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.
“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.
More cases of the virus, which causes respiratory disease Covid-19, continue to emerge, with outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, and Iran.
Transmission of virus between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.
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