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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Sunday said it was not responsible for distributing Covid-19 vaccines to vaccination stations across the capital.

The number of new Covid-19 patients in Asean countries on Saturday rose by 25,656, up from 25,181 on Friday, while 426 patients died, compared to 464 the previous day.

TOKYO - Saturday marked two months since the start of Japans COVID-19 inoculation campaign for people aged 65 and up.

A 64-year-old grandmother from Nakhon Pathom announced on Thursday that she is desperate to sell her kidney to help her family survive the Covid-19 crisis.

The number of people seriously ill with Covid-19 in Tokyo could surge in the coming weeks, peaking as the Olympics are underway, even without thousands of participants streaming into the capital.

Singapore will increase group gathering sizes and allow dining-in at food outlets to resume after aggressive virus restrictions over the past month stemmed an outbreak in infections.

Justice Minister Somsak Thepsuthin announced the vaccine rollout in Thailand’s overcrowded prisons on Thursday, where more than 22,000 inmates have tested positive for Covid-19 during the latest wave.

NEW DELHI - Two months ago, the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital in Indias capital was a battlefield. Every one of its 1,500 beds for coronavirus patients was full. It came perilously close to running out of oxygen not once, but three times.

Despite a one-year postponement and strict containment measures, the Euro 2020 soccer tournament still is being affected by the coronavirus pandemic with games set to begin across Europe on Friday.

People who do not wear masks in public may face up to a THB20,000 fine if they are caught breaking the rule for the third time, according to an announcement by the National Communicable Disease Committee published in the Royal Gazette.

The coronavirus variant labeled "delta" was first recorded in India, where a slow vaccination drive and complacency about pandemic rules helped spark a record-breaking covid-19 surge this spring.

Today (June 7) was the first day that general Bangkok residents began getting their Covid-19 shot.