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Portugal has reported more than 1,000 deaths due to the heat wave, with the health chief warning on Tuesday that the country must gear up to cope with the effects of climate change as temperatures continued to rise.

India on Thursday (May 5) objected to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report of people having died as a result of COVID-19, which showed the country's toll was nearly 10 times the reported figure.

For the past 44 days, Thailand has been among the top 10 countries with the highest number of daily Covid-19 infections, a medical lecturer said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

The number of Covid-19 infections during this year’s Songkran festival was 1.7 times lower than last year, the Public Health Commission said on Monday.

Everybody should get a booster shot because the rate of deaths from Covid-19 in Thailand is alarming, a lecturer from Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine said on Tuesday.

Covid-19 infection was not the main cause of deaths in some 10 to 30 per cent of daily fatalities attributed to the infection, the Public Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Ministry of Public Health reported on Sunday (November 14) morning that in the past 24 hours there are 7,079 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, 171 of whom have been found in prisons.

The coronavirus is on the cusp of having killed at least 5 million people since it first emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

Thailand crossed the 300 mark for a second day running with 301 deaths on Thursday and 20,902 new infections, 148 of which were found in prisons.

Some 100 Covid-19 deaths had not been added to the Covid-19 caseload until Wednesday because the authorities had been waiting for final autopsy results, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said.

Indonesia has reached a grim milestone as more than 100,000 people died from the coronavirus, becoming the second country in Asia to breach that threshold.

The number of daily Covid-19 deaths reached a new high on Wednesday at 41, with 2,455 new infections.