Until today, Thailand has accumulated 561,030 contagions, the highest number in the region after Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, while deaths amounted to 4,562.

Starting in April and linked to the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the third wave of the disease is responsible for 95 percent of cases and 99 percent of deaths in Thailand.

In this capital, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country and in need of hospital beds, the Metropolitan Administration has enabled a dozen train cars to admit patients with mild symptoms of the disease starting on Friday.

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