Thailand’s Health Ministry Expects Covid-19 to Become an Endemic this year

The Public Health Ministry of Thailand has announced its plans of moving the Covid-19 from the pandemic to endemic status in 2022. The country’s permanent secretary for public health, Dr. Kiattiphum Wongrajit, said that the country was able to achieve this because of the people’s cooperation on the matter and because the country had timely embraced the vaccination rollout.

He said that although the Omicron variant was hig....