HEALTH authorities in Bangkok have set up of team of 60 riders on motorcycles to deliver capsules of green chiretta and other essentials to Covid-19 patients in home isolation.
This comes as some 100,000 Covid-19 patients have been placed in home isolation in the capital area alone.
The city's Department of Disease Control said the team of "super riders" have started delivering home isolation kits that contain paracetamol, green chireta herbal capsules, a digital thermometer, a fingertip pulse oximeter, hand sanitiser and surgical masks.
These home isolation kits had already been delivered to more than 100 patients in Bangkok and more would follow.
The Bangkok Post reports department director-general Dr Opas Karnkawinpong saying they have also started taking urgent measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the country, as the number of infections reached record highs in Thailand.
The department is now actively searching for infected people and their close contacts, to bring them into the medical treatment system and reduce the spread of the disease.
Dr Opas said the department was working closely with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration while disease control offices in other regions have been told to coordinate with provincial public health offices and other agencies in curbing the epidemic.
Screening points have been set up in Bangkok at Thupatemi Sports Stadium, Rajamangala National Stadium and the Royal Thai Army Club, where high-risk people can be tested for Covid-19.
About 4,000 people are being tested daily at each venue.
Those who are asymptomatic or showed mild symptoms are placed in home isolation for 14 days.
The nearly 100,000 Covid-19 patients were placed in home isolation as medical facilities across the country are overwhelmed.
Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) assistant spokeswoman Dr Apisamai Srirangson said 232 centres have been set up to look after patients in home isolation in the capital.
"All sectors are working hard to ensure people are looked after safely and quickly," Dr Apisamai said.
The disease control department had also arranged 12 to 15 comprehensive Covid-19 response teams to work with the BMTA and other agencies to find high-risk people living in communities in 50 districts of Bangkok.
Each team had Covid-19 antigen kits and could test 1,000 people a day.
They also administered Covid-19 vaccine shots to vulnerable people, such as bed-ridden patients, Dr Opas said.
Bangkok remains the hardest hit region with more than 4,000 cases reported on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Thailand reported record highs of 191 more Covid-19 fatalities and 21,379 new cases over the past 24 hours on Friday morning.
The Public Health Ministry said that since April 1, around when the third wave of Covid-19 began, there have been 685,821 Covid-19 cases and 5,760 deaths.
Since the pandemic started early last year, there have been 714,684 Covid-19 cases and 5,854 deaths.