Yesterday, Thailand’s number of Covid-19 infections because the pandemic hit the nation in 2020 jumped to 3 million. There have been 781,371 infections since January 1. Out of these infections, there have been 1,478 deaths, and 589,997 recoveries.
Thailand’s Department of Mental Health has also reported the drastic impression of Covid-19 on mental health. DMH’s director-general informed the Bangkok Post the suicide fee in Thailand is 5.9 occasions what it was in pre-Covid days. Explode ’s data discovered that individuals are 2.1 times extra prone to develop stress, and 4.8 times more likely to develop melancholy, than they had been pre-pandemic.
The director-general stated one issue in the plummeting psychological well being is the slow unfold of the Omicron variant, preventing progress on the state of affairs. He mentioned the DMH plans a new service.
Save said that, in some instances, folks have committed suicide when their business stopped making sufficient revenue as a outcome of authorities closures and restrictions, in response to the Covid-19 state of affairs. In one tragic incident, a couple in Chon Buri hung themselves in their house after loan sharks threatened them. The husband and wife both worked as meals distributors, and Covid-19 restrictions as properly as a scarcity of consumers hit their earnings exhausting. The couple had two youngsters.
A research by UNICEF from January 2020 to September 2021 discovered that 28% of Thai adolescents skilled high levels of stress, 32% risked despair, and 22% have been susceptible to suicide.
Around the world, the number of individuals dying due to Covid-19 has now surpassed 6 million, almost 1/6 of these within the US alone..