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Extreme weather events and natural disasters will continue to increase, the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Monday, saying that climate change was the root cause for the torrential rainstorms and deadly floods ravaging across Western Europe this summer.

Siriraj Hospital’s blood bank is running low because people have not been donating blood due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Dr Parichart Phermphikul said on Wednesday.

More than 1,500 people turned up to donate blood over the weekend after an SOS from the Thai Red Cross Society that it was running out of blood supplies.

A leading Thai virologist has highlighted recent research indicating that people with group A blood are more susceptible to Covid-19.

Siriraj Hospital is fast running out of group A and B blood since people have not been making many donations since the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Khon Kaen Regional Health Promotion Centre 7 is working with Khon Kaen Hospital to send out mobile units to collect blood donations from people’s homes.

People take a new blood test for coronavirus developed by Chulalongkorn University.

The National Blood Centre today (March 30) turned silent as people dared not venture out of their residences due to fear of contracting Covid-19.

The Thai Red Cross Society’s National Blood Centre is also suffering from the Covid-19 virus scare because it’s keeping blood donors away.

Numerous syringes and lab tubes containing human blood found near a beach in Chong Samae San subdistrict, Chonburi province, on Sunday, which caused panic among local people and tourists, likely belonged to illegal beauty clinics, the province’s public health doctor said.

Several Thais have donated their blood before the end of 2019 at the National Blood Centre of the Thai Red Cross Society and received Red Rat calendars as mementoes.

World Blood Donor Day falls on Friday (June 14) and many Thais chose to mark the occasion in advance by giving blood over the weekend at the National Blood Centre in Bangkok.