The Public Health Ministry on Saturday reported 24 new Covid-19 fatalities and 3,052 cases, bringing the toll to 759 deaths and 126,118 cases.

Authorities have tightened border controls to prevent illegal entry and the spread of Covid-19 from neighbouring countries.

Thai exports are maintaining healthy growth momentum and likely increased by more than 10% in April, says Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit.

Police in Chumphon province gunned down two criminal suspects, one of whom was identified as the most wanted hitman in the upper South, in a shootout on a hilltop on Thursday night.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has defended the plan to administer up to 12 doses per vial of AstraZeneca vaccine despite the official recommendation that there is only enough formula for 10 in each.

City Hall has sealed off a camp for construction workers in Laksi district after more than 1,000 tested positive for Covid-19, with 36 of 80 samples analysed so far showing the highly contagious variant first found in India.

Thirty-six people at a construction site in Laksi district of Bangkok have been found infected with the Indian variant of Covid-19 authorities said on Friday.

All foreigners in Thailand will be able to register at vaccination centres for Covid-19 shots from June 7, when the campaign for mass inoculations begins, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Friday extended the closure of schools in Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Samut Prakan to control Covid-19.

There were 32 new Covid fatalities over the past 24 hours, bringing the toll to 735, and 3,481 new cases, raising the total to 123,066, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday morning.