ISSN: 2639-2038
Authors: Sakunkoo P*, Wangmook K, Maneenin N, Jirapornkul C* and Koh D
The disease COVID-19 outbreak began in Thailand in May 2020 in Bangkok. And spread too many provinces across the country, resulting in Thailand having 2,361,702 cases and 22,000 deaths (as of January 21, 2022), with the highest number of deaths reported on August 18, 2021, of 312 people. Most of the deaths were aged 70 years or more, accounting for 46.17 percent, followed by the age of 60-69 years, accounting for 22.63% and aged 50-59 years, accounting for 16.94%, respectively, and found that most of the deaths were 84.8% each not vaccinated. From the past studies, it was found that patients infected with the COVID-19 with risk factors are having underlying disease, overweight and smoking behavior are more likely to die than those without those risk factors. And patients vaccinated against COVID-19 are less likely to die than unvaccinated patients. Although vaccines are currently being developed to prevent disease and the production of therapeutic drugs. But still the number of deaths raises continuously, so care, prevention of infection and maintaining health is the best way to deal with the coronavirus disease 2019. Thus, promoting good food intake, exercise and refraining from smoking or unhealthy habits is paramount in the fight against COVID-19.
Keywords: COVID-19; Population; Morbidity rate; Antibody; Infection; Pneumonia
