BANGKOK, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Another 188 COVID-19 cases were reported in Thailand on Sunday, accounting for the highest daily rate and making a total of 599 patients, according to a senior government official.
The Ministry of Public Health's spokesman Thavisilp Visanuyothin announced in a press conference that 188 more people in Thailand were founded to be infected with COVID-19.
The 188 newly reported patients included 65 people who had been physically close to those earlier reported cases at Lumpini boxing stadium and certain bars in Thong Lor and Ramkhamhaeng areas of Bangkok.
They had traveled to places in the capital city and the provinces after they left the boxing stadium and bars earlier this month, according to the spokesman.
The 188 newly-reported patients included seven lottery ticket peddlers and other vendors near the boxing stadium, two Muslim people who had returned to southern border provinces from Malaysia where they had attended a mass ritual. Six are Thai who had returned from bars in Cambodia's Poi Pet, where they had been employed.
Of the total 599 patients reported so far, 553 are hospitalized and seven of them are in critical condition, while 45 others have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals, according to the spokesman.
There has been one death from the COVID-19 in Thailand so far.
