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3 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

559 to 789 is hardly exponential growth...and if hospital beds are running out it's because they put anyone testing positive in hospital even though 50% of people are asymptomatic and 80% never need hospitalization. 

Exponential possibly, too early to tell but case numbers over last week doubling every two days, this how the boffins describe exponential, the number of days it takes for cases to double.

1 minute ago, RichardColeman said:

From link - Despite the surge in new infections, he assured that it is still safe to travel to Hua Hin, as officials have disinfected all the venues visited by the infected and those believed to be infected.

 

Course it is 

I'm sure those in charge still believe the majority of transmission is by touch/surface, like disinfection of markets 2 weeks after they close due to outbreak. Better spending money on more test and trace.

9 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Who with two brain cells firing would come here now???

 

Reducing quarantine is idiocy. Good chance that's ho the UK variant got in.

 

Politicians everywhere have a hard time admitting their mistakes ("She told me she was 18!"). Will our brass suck it up & shut it down before it's too late (considering it may well be already too late)?

I think you'll find the UK variant was discovered before anyone on 7 day quarantine had finished their time.

44 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I haven't seen that stat. Do you have a source for it that you can post?

 

It's on the MOPH website https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/situation.php

Has the daily persons qualifying for test and lab tests carried out.

Testing jumped to 10000 yesterday, expect these results to filter in to figures over the next few days I think

40 min rapid result, sounds like cross lateral flow tests been used, free to everyone in the uk now, twice weekly if you want, but a positive still requires a PCR confirmation. 

9 hours ago, ukrules said:

There's your problem. My father went for his second shot yesterday, in and out in 15 minutes.

Agree with that, UK had my first vaccine, 10minute time slot for arrival, 10m once in for paperwork, quick chat with person doing vacc about risks, and 15m waiting after to check for allergy reaction. Very slick operation they were running at my local hospital/vaccine centre.

Warning came 6 days after because probably took that long to get results back. Time lines etc always seem to come out 5-6 days after they tested positive. Need 24 hr turnaround on results for test and trace to work, as the uk found out out to it's detriment.

Cannot see a huge rush of patrons going to respond to this request, unless they get sick enough to think they need medical treatment only available at hospital.

6 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

they'll be paying for my treatment if i'm found to be positive?

 

no?

 

will allow me to self isolate at home?

 

no?

 

then i think i'll pass until i'm too sick to stay home

 

 

And in your comment is the stark truth of what is going through most people's minds I think who live in Thailand. Well said.

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

may, how about should, or by May it will be lights out Thailand.  Do these guys know what's happening or have they been taken by surprise.  Test A Nutin, Test.

They haven't a clue on what's happening with regards to covid because they only mainly test people who come forward at hospitals who have symptoms and sporadic surge testing, normally targeted at areas with immigrant workers. The UK now offers free testing for a large percentage of population who have to go out to work or have children in schools, plus pupils in secondary schools.

2 hours ago, condobrit001 said:

There seems to be little or no concern regarding the large rise in cases in Bangkok. All the progress achieved by previous lockdowns has been wasted, and the capital is now on the verge of large scale infection. Why the change in direction? The current level of infection warrants immediate closure of all pubs, bars, entertainment areas etc. Interprovincial travel should be reintroduced and all Songkran activities banned. Why is Thailand not learning from the mistakes made by Europe and the USA?

One advantage Thailand has is that it doesn't carry out testing in such large numbers as europe and USA. Uk 1 million plus tests a day PCR/cross lateral flow. Don't test big numbers, don't find, easy.

And what of his timeline, where did he get infected?

25 minutes ago, rabas said:

 

Thailand sequences every positive case entering the county via ASQ. A few months ago, they found an entire British family with the UK B.1.1.7 strain, which so far has not got into Thailand. They also sequence many cases in hospitals to track the local strains, contributing a portion to the international surveillance database GISAID. You can download from there.

 

Thailand was the first country outside China to detect a COVID case, on Jan 8 2020 before PCR testing was available anywhere. The did it by sequencing. Thailand genetically sequenced every case before developing their own PCR test, which they registered with the WHO.

 

Even so, it is absolute idiocy to reduce quarantine below 14 days.

 

Thailand's brilliant genetics and covid control is done by Thai medical staff and citizens.  The government decides about ASQ and vaccines. Can you see the difference?

 

Do they publish figures of the percentage of positives they are sequencing, I think in the uk it's about 30% as average unless they detect a specific strain in an area, then they do surge testing of whole area and sequence every positive result. Read a report that uk sequences up to 50% of the worlds requirements as to sequencing, on behalf of other countries. I hope Thailand is carrying on doing robust sequencing as it's one way to keep on top of situation, unlike uk who discovered the new uk strain too late.

2 hours ago, topt said:

So now they have found those are they going to test the rest? 214 is less than 10%.

Probably not, that cost money as CCSA complained about with the migrant outbreak earlier. Just lock them down and go for the herd immunity in the group, same as migrant/factory camps.

2 hours ago, dyertribe said:

So, does that 96 include the 112 prisoners and guards announced today?

Exactly my question