Phuket marks 124 new COVID cases, four more deaths

[Jonathan Fairfield]

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 134 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Oct 23) bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 14,685.

 

The PPHO report, marked as accurate as of 8pm last night, but posted online at 12:20am today, reported no new infections among Sandbox tourist arrivals and no new infections among non-Sandbox arrivals from abroad.

 

However, the report also marked four more deaths attributed to COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in Phuket attributed to COVID-19 since Apr 3 to 111. After 55 COVID deaths in September, officials have marked 36 deaths so far this month.

 

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