Phuket marks 175 new COVID cases, no new deaths

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Image: PPHO

 

By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 175 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Oct 5) bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 12,009.

 

The PPHO report, marked as accurate as of 8pm last night, and posted online at 9:34pm, reported four new infections among Sandbox tourist arrivals but no new infections among non-Sandbox arrivals from abroad.

 

The report also marked no new deaths attributed to COVID-19, leaving the total number of deaths in Phuket attributed to COVID-19 since Apr 3 at 83. Of those, 63 deaths have occurred since Sept 4. Eight of those deaths have been since Saturday (Oct 2).

 

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[pagallim]

 

The 175 doesn't include 83 positive ATK tested persons, so likely figure is 258.

[macahoom]

21 hours ago, pagallim said:

 

The 175 doesn't include 83 positive ATK tested persons, so likely figure is 258.

What's ATK?

[pagallim]

7 minutes ago, macahoom said:

What's ATK?

Antigen Self Test Kit, i.e. the rapid one.