Prisons push Thailand's COVID-19 cases to new daily high
A health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to a person in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2021. Health authorities in Thailand on Monday reported 9,635 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, a new daily high that brought the cumulative total since January last year to 111,082. Almost three-quarters of all cases were recorded since April 1, when Thailand's third coronavirus wave began. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

A health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to a person in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2021. Health authorities in Thailand on Monday reported 9,635 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, a new daily high that brought the cumulative total since January last year to 111,082. Almost three-quarters of all cases were recorded since April 1, when Thailand's third coronavirus wave began. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

May. 17, 2021 04:47 AM EDT
A health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to a woman in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2021. Health authorities in Thailand on Monday reported 9,635 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, a new daily high that brought the cumulative total since January last year to 111,082. Almost three-quarters of all cases were recorded since April 1, when Thailand's third coronavirus wave began. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

A health worker administers a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine to a woman in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2021. Health authorities in Thailand on Monday reported 9,635 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, a new daily high that brought the cumulative total since January last year to 111,082. Almost three-quarters of all cases were recorded since April 1, when Thailand's third coronavirus wave began. (AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

May. 17, 2021 04:46 AM EDT
People wait to receive Sinovac COVID-19 and the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2021. Health authorities in Thailand on Monday reported 9,635 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, a new daily high that brought the cumulative total since January last year to 111,082. Almost three-quarters of all cases were recorded since April 1, when Thailand's third coronavirus wave began.(AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

People wait to receive Sinovac COVID-19 and the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 17, 2021. Health authorities in Thailand on Monday reported 9,635 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, a new daily high that brought the cumulative total since January last year to 111,082. Almost three-quarters of all cases were recorded since April 1, when Thailand's third coronavirus wave began.(AP Photo/Anuthep Cheysakron)

May. 17, 2021 04:48 AM EDT