COVID-19: Half a million people visited Thailand from severely affected countries

[spiekerjozef]

5 minutes ago, mberbae said:

The numbers coming out of LOS were Always Suspect.

No way are the COVID 19 cases more in Italy and Iran

than here.

The US is playing the same game. Two days ago only a total of 1,895 us citizens have been tested for coronavirus. (one way to keep numbers low).

South-Korea test 10,000 people a day.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-americans-have-been-tested-coronavirus/607597/

 

 

[lensta]

19 minutes ago, Huckenfell said:

It is all to do with temperature, putting it simply, Thailand is too hot ( over 27 Cel ) for the virus to thrive

and you think Australia is not hot from December through to March??? Really

[TheFishman1]

This is really starting to get scary TIT

[legend49]

14 hours ago, sweatalot said:

"COVID-19: Half a million people visited Thailand from severely affected countries"

 

This makes the official number of infections in LOS even more unbelievable

Compared to say Australia. one third the population of Thailand but just recorded its 3rd death and thats with off shore quarantine area at its detention centre and has shut the airline doors to all those risky 9 countries.  Go figure what is REALLY happening here.

[NCC1701A]

BREAKING: Italy Announces Quarantine Affecting Quarter of Population (AP) khaosodenglish.com/n

 

i hope everyone is getting the message to stock up on food and water .

 

everyone should decide where you want to spend the next six months.

 

good luck.

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by NCC1701A

[lockyv7]

29 minutes ago, Huckenfell said:

It is all to do with temperature, putting it simply, Thailand is too hot ( over 27 Cel ) for the virus to thrive

and you dont think summer in Australia is hot. 

 

[legend49]

9 minutes ago, lensta said:

and you think Australia is not hot from December through to March??? Really

Last time I was at Coopers Creek South Australia in January it was 52 degrees C in the shade.

[khunpa]

https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/eng/file/situation/situation-no63-060363.pdf

 

Laboratory results of the other 4,186 PUI showed 2,411 negative results to the virus causing COVID-19 and results are pending for 1,775 PUI.

 

This is 2 days ago. So the number of pending test results would be over 2.000 now. Thailand has very few cases, because they simply only do few tests every day. They have absolutely no control over the containment of this.

[mfd101]

There have been reports here of something like 3000 people in Thailand suffering from something called 'viral pneumonia'.

 

But the testing system hasn't shown them to have CV, because only 2 or 3 tests are conducted a day.

 

So that's alright then. No need to panic.

[toper3jr]

Someone please start a petition or MORE, to hold the thai government responsible for their lies on this matter and to temporarily ban flights n tourists from most affected areas!

[Bundooman]

9 hours ago, Traubert said:

Wuhan peaked 10 days ago. 52000 recovered from 78000 infected (Hubei was closed on 26th January).

So what is YOUR point?

[Tayaout]

2 minutes ago, Bundooman said:

So what is YOUR point?

CCP good. Critics bad. 

Edited March 8, 2020 by Tayaout

[christophe75]

15 minutes ago, khunpa said:

https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/eng/file/situation/situation-no63-060363.pdf

 

Laboratory results of the other 4,186 PUI showed 2,411 negative results to the virus causing COVID-19 and results are pending for 1,775 PUI.

 

This is 2 days ago. So the number of pending test results would be over 2.000 now. Thailand has very few cases, because they simply only do few tests every day. They have absolutely no control over the containment of this.

 

And to add insult to injury, let's remember the past days....

 

3 march = 1598
4 march = 1615
5 march = 1656
6 march = 1775

 

To be complete : this "pending results for PUI" indicator have been added on march 3.

 

We had it as well, february 11, 12, 13.

 

And from january 25 to february 2.

 

So to summarize : it's a joke.

 

No tests, no cases.

 

Tests are done for the most obvious and high profile cases (the guy coming back from Italy for instance, the guy who was working for... King Power shop [and who died], etc.).

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by christophe75

[dougiemac52]

15 hours ago, ukrules said:

Wow, amazing.

 

I guess this is why immigration are so paranoid - they think we're all doing the same as they (Thais) do all around the world.

Half a million people in 29 days. Thats incredible. So lets say 300 people in a plane. Thats about 60 planes a day ????????. What a load of <deleted>. I arrived on the 22nd and Suvarnabhumi was empty more or less, same when I left on the 1st

[Proboscis]

15 hours ago, sweatalot said:

"COVID-19: Half a million people visited Thailand from severely affected countries"

 

This makes the official number of infections in LOS even more unbelievable

That does not follow. What it could also indicate is that the hot weather is working against the transmission of the corona virus in the same way as it operates against other viruses.

 

Think about it for a minute - where are the highest levels of infection? In countries where it has been cold for the past couple of months. For instance, China, Washington State, Iran, South Korea etc.

 

In fact, this is part of the strategy that is being employed in the UK - try to delay the level of infections until high summer.

[Bundooman]

9 hours ago, Traubert said:

Wuhan peaked 10 days ago. 52000 recovered from 78000 infected (Hubei was closed on 26th January).

So please tell us; Where exactly did you obtain these figures? If your source is China...….:

 

Do you believe for one second that China is going to come clean on this, bearing in mind that it has lied and hidden the truth now on two occasions now. Their 'lockdown' of 40-60 million people may or may not have been successful. Do you really think they will tell the world the truth?

 

The rest of the world is probably unable to do the same, although one country, Italy has now isolated one city. Maybe that might work but western ethical values are different to subservient China. Iran appears unable to cope. India is a disaster possibly waiting to happen and other countries, like this one here now is probably hiding the truth.

 

And what if this virus should develop and deviate from its expected pattern? What then?

[manhood]

Transparency is a word that is not excisting for goverment announcements .  It's more the disinformation and the many lies from all of those who are responsible. So i can't imagine anybody trust on the goverment and as foreigners get much better and more informatio s we just can laugh on what is going on. But all the s..t will fall on the feet of this "goverment"!

[DavisH]

34 minutes ago, lensta said:

and you think Australia is not hot from December through to March??? Really

Viruses thrive in cold, dry climates. I think Italy is particularly hard hit as they have a high % or people over 65 years old (around 20%). and is cold at the moment. Milan is 5 degrees C today also. Places like Thailand and the Phillippines have smaller polulations of elderly and are generally hot and humid. Humid air increases droplet size so the virus it more likely to fall out of the air column faster (published research, not my opinion). Obviously, there could also be under-reporting here (due to low rates of testing), but I don't think the health ministry is deliberately withholding information on infection rates when it is known someone has been infected. 

[garygooner]

It certainly is only going to get worse, and a vaccine will be over a year away. 2020, not a very happy new year. 

[DrTuner]

6 minutes ago, Proboscis said:

Think about it for a minute - where are the highest levels of infection? In countries where it has been cold for the past couple of months. For instance, China, Washington State, Iran, South Korea etc.

Malaysia is starting now. 32 degrees in Kuala Lumpur. I doubt the 0.1seconds it takes for spittle to fly from somebody sneezing to your respitory system much cares about a few degrees here or there.

[wensiensheng]

9 hours ago, Traubert said:

Wuhan was closed off on January 24th and Hubei province on 26th.

 

44 and 42 days ago. So what is your point?

I believe the point being made is that the figures for Chinese visitors will have been far higher in January, than February, because it was prior to the travel ban on Chinese tour groups implemented by the Chinese government.

 

so if the arrivals in February seem alarmingly high, January’s higher number would be be more alarming AND include tour groups from Wuhan itself.

 

thats if I read the post corectly

[crazykopite]

Yet Thailand only reports 50 positive cases should there be a few extra 000s at the end of the 50 . Taking someone’s temperature doesn’t prove anything 

Edited March 8, 2020 by crazykopite

[CanuckThai]

15 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Malaysia is starting now. 32 degrees in Kuala Lumpur. I doubt the 0.1seconds it takes for spittle to fly from somebody sneezing to your respitory system much cares about a few degrees here or there.

Agreed, but when was the last time you noticed a street vendor wearing gloves, or washing their hands.

I don't think warm weather will alter or prevent the infected coins/bills/hands.  This isn't a bashing, but we all know the common routine of wiping/picking mouth, nose and face here.  

 

"People watch" customers and vendors for 5 minutes near street food vendors or a mall food court.  You'll laugh, then want to cry.

[rabas]

1 hour ago, Huckenfell said:

It is all to do with temperature, putting it simply, Thailand is too hot ( over 27 Cel ) for the virus to thrive

Do you think when an infected person with 39⁰C fever sneezes a droplet into your 37⁰C nose or eyes the 27⁰C air will kill it?

[mannytoba]

Never believed the reported numbers. I was in Phuket February week 1 and bus loads of sneezing chinese unloading daily.  

[Burma Bill]

Quote:-

"Japan 140,000"

Across the border here in Siem Reap, we have the first locally COVID-19 positive Khmer person who was in contact with a Japanese tourist. He, and 43 other local persons who were in direct or indirect contact with this Japanese tourist are all in quarantine for 14 days. Yesterday (Saturday) PM Hun Sen ordered the closure of ALL schools in Siem Reap for 14 days.

[Nyezhov]

27 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

Malaysia is starting now. 32 degrees in Kuala Lumpur. I doubt the 0.1seconds it takes for spittle to fly from somebody sneezing to your respitory system much cares about a few degrees here or there.

Its not the flying spit, its the surfaces the spit lands on.

[hotchilli]

16 hours ago, rooster59 said:

There were just over half a million visitors from nine countries deemed now to be especially risky.

Yet Thailand maintains only 40+ infections... must be something in the Somtam?

[Gilltom]

16 hours ago, sweatalot said:

"COVID-19: Half a million people visited Thailand from severely affected countries"

 

This makes the official number of infections in LOS even more unbelievable

So true

[DrTuner]

14 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Its not the flying spit, its the surfaces the spit lands on.

The outbreaks seem to have happened in closed spaces, with a short distance between the infected and the source. Nobody knows for sure, but the indications seem to be the transmission is most effective in close contact. That sort of implies direct aerosolized transmission, not so much from mouth to surface to hands to nose/mouth/eyes.

 

 

The most dangerous place in the world? A seafood buffet in Wuhan. More spit than oxygen in the air.

Edited March 8, 2020 by DrTuner