Bkk Brian

Starting from 1st October, domestic tourists to Phuket must be vaccinated or recovered from Covid-19, AND they must do a Covid-free test no more than 7 days in advance. Full details: https://thainewsreports.com/2021/09/24/rules-for-going-to-phuket-from-1st-october-2021 #Thailand https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442316825811775488

More donations #Thailand to receive 122,400 doses of AstraZeneca’s #COVID19 vaccine, 200k test kits and 500k of nasal swab kits from #Singapore, following a meeting between Thai Public Health Min Anutin and Kevin Cheok, SG Ambassador to Thailand. https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1442317015658553344

That sounds logical but Thailand's stats are not always logical, before they changed the format to now be the positivity rate and we do not know where they take that from, it was always the number of tests that were shown but they stopped showing these 2 or 3 weeks ago. At the time they were doing around 40k tests daily and the graph was decreasing showing a steady decline on the number of tests daily. However you can still get the testing figures here, last data point was around 37k per day but on the 7 day rolling average its around 50k https://djay.github.io/covidthailand/#testing

UPDATE: 10,288 confirmed cases, 2,306 probable cases, and 101 deaths (1.04%). Out of 120,156 patients , 33,759 are in hospital, 65,469 in ‘hospitel’ and 14,966 in home/community isolation. 3,341 in a serious condition (+17) with 728 on ventilators (+4) https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442307006732201984

CFR now for Phuket is 0.71% which seems a little high considering the high vaccination rate, or perhaps another reason could be an under count in actual covid positive cases? More details on yesterdays stats here https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-193-new-covid-cases-two-more-deaths-81523.php

Southeast Asia saw an increase in Covid-19 cases on Sunday but a lower number of deaths compared to Saturday, collated data showed. https://twitter.com/Thenationth/status/1442297972931194884

Phuket health authorities are reporting 193 new local cases , zero cases from the Sandbox and two deaths. There are 4,277 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 109 cases since 1st July https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442273203880022021

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 587 new cases today and 6 deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (218), Si Racha (136), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (91). There are 11,862 patients in care https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442273005262966795

#COVID19 on Monday: 10,288 cases (127 from prison) 101 deaths 12,494 released from care High for cases: 23,418 on 13 Aug High for deaths: 312 on 18 Aug High for recoveries: 23,672 on 14 Aug https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442289453465100291

PCR test positive cases, total of 10,288 official new infections, with just 127 of those from prison and 10,161 from the community. 101 official covid deaths recorded. Rapid tests positive cases, 2,306 bringing the unofficial total to 12,594 https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/ Rolling 7 day average (up to 25th Sept) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases from daily official announcements. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

End of July over 1.5 million doses of Pfizer arrived from the US as part of its continued donations, did that take over a month also to complete the paperwork?

Amazing Thailand they say, new high on the 24th, new low on the 25th. I see they're planning to give a 4th shot or second booster.

A sad but good example of how not to conduct a responsible vaccine roll out, all for the sake of carrying out 1 million plus in a day when it would have been far safer spread over a couple of days and not end up with empty vaccine sites the following day. I remember when they first started the roll out in Phuket, there were a couple of sites that needed to be closed as they turned out to be spreader events and they were not even that bad.

Yep, so just 108,480 yesterday according to this one, I really can't see the point of doing over a million one day only to the go all the way down to 100K+ the next, cancelling peoples appointments so they were re booked for the 24th, the chaos caused in some vaccine sites with huge queues and no social distancing. Thailand's Vaccine Tracker (Sept. 26, 2021) Saturday saw a dip in inoculations after the Mahidol Day surge. 31,352,795 (+40,659) people have received the first dose, while 17,667,069 (+67,821) have been fully inoculated. https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1442067236118614016

Some creative accounting going on somewhere. Numbers just not adding up and no official updates

According to this from the CCSA daily slides, only 112,215 vaccinations were administered yesterday. So you go from over a million one day to just over 100k the next? https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/260964.pdf

#COVID19 #Thailand update on Sunday: 12,353 cases (+12 from abroad) 125 deaths (1.06% mortality rate) 122,463 patients in care 3,324 in ICU and 724 on ventilators 14,305 discharged from care https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1442031295756791808

Top 10 Provinces for new cases (not in prisons): Bangkok 1,976 Samut Prakan 713 Chonburi 651 Yala 558 Rayong 517 Nakhon Si Thammarat 477 Samut Sakhon 412 Songkhla 409 Narathiwat 370 Ratchaburi 297 https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442029431669682181

Today there were 125 deaths in #Thailand 63 males & 62 females Burmese (3) Age range is 23-105 years 63% of deaths aged 60+ Most deaths in Bangkok (27) https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442027727117115392

Thailand thanks #Japan for granting 3rd lot of 300,000-dose #AstraZeneca vaccines which arrived in Thailand today as to commemorate the 134th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations. In total, Japan has already granted 1.65m-dose vaccines to Thailand https://twitter.com/MFAThai/status/1442013977257512961

Wonder when they'll need a 2nd booster after this experiment that goes against the manufactures and WHO's recommendation Phuket pushes intradermal vaccine jabs for third dose Phuket is accelerating the operation to administer the third Covid-19 vaccine jab using intradermal injection on citizens. Some 200,000 people are expected to be vaccinated by September-end. Dr Chalermpong Sukhonthaphon, the director of Vachira Phuket Hospital, said all vaccination centres in the province on Saturday had kicked off the vaccination operation by using only 60 per cent of total vaccination capacity. "Therefore, we have a plan to accelerate the vaccination in order to enable people in the province to receive their third jab as soon as possible," he said. https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40006668

The PPHO no longer issues an updated map showing the locations of COVID infections across the island. The most recent map was posted publicly on Sept 16. It was dated Sept 15 but marked as accurate as of 6pm on Sept 14, and was the first daily report to mark five COVID deaths on the one day. More details https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-219-new-covid-cases-two-more-deaths-81517.php

Ah so rantings about former predictions that you cannot evidence. The topic which I was responding to in your post

More hearsay abounds, can you details those predictions to give a little perspective? Preferably with evidence not hearsay

Phuket Opinion: Enough rope PHUKET: If anyone was still looking for evidence that the COVID infection figures provided by some officials in Phuket were not adding up, this past week – not once, but twice – they have had that evidence served to them on a plate. Plenty of suspicions about the veracity of the figures published each day in the daily COVID situation report for Phuket have been abound for a long time, yet this past week those suspicions were confirmed by none other than the official reports themselves. https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-opinion-enough-rope-81516.php