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Thailand has recorded another record number of new daily cases on Thursday. There 13,655 new infections and 87 deaths. More public spaces will be closed in Bangkok and other high risk areas, including parks, writes our south-east Asia correspondent, Rebecca Ratcliffe.
The head of Thailand’s national vaccine institute apologised on Thursday for the slow vaccine rollout, saying that the country was facing unforeseen challenges, given the new variants that have emerged.
China has rejected a World Health Organization plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, Reuters reports.
The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the causes of the pandemic, including audits of laboratories and markets in the city of Wuhan, calling for transparency from authorities.
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