The government on Saturday said the increasing number of infections was due to people failing to
practise social distancing.
Twenty-two revellers at a drug party in Chiang Rai
were arrested on Saturday for gathering in defiance of the nationwide Emergency Decree.
Authorities have imposed a lockdown in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, while authorities on the resort island of Phuket have asked people to stay home from 8pm to 3am in a new restriction on movement to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Phuket recorded six new cases on Saturday, four in the Patong area.