Thailand reports 143 new COVID-19 cases, 1 death

 

 

Thailand on Sunday reported a 143 new coronavirus cases, including one death.

 

The new infections bring the total number of cases in Thailand to 1,388 and 7 deaths.

 

The case of the deceased was a 67 year old man from Nonthaburi.

 

This is a developing story. This post will be updated.

 

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Say goodbye to the lockdown finishing any time soon.

8 minutes ago, dcsw53 said:

Say goodbye to the lockdown finishing any time soon.

Lockdown hasn't started yet?

Prepare for a fall curfew guys. Clearly people have not been taking advice to self isolate.. 

Forget about 3000 confirmed cases by the end of April!!! We could be to 3000 confirmed cases by the first or second week of the month.

 

1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

Lockdown hasn't started yet?

No official curfew, just advice to stay at home as often as possible ect.. 

Keep safe, social distancing does not seem to be working.....

Again, relatively good news people. Breathe..

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

Keep safe, social distancing does not seem to be working.....

You can only see.the effects.of social distancing (not much is happening in Thailand) in about 14 days due to the incubation period.

We know there is limited testing and thus limited utility in these results. However as I've been saying I have the most faith in the death statistic which is very low. We all know many Thai's will never practice social distancing and sanitary conditions in many places are poor and this will increase infection rates but based on today's results I continue to think that the climate likely makes the virus less virulent.  After the mass exodus out of Bangkok it's obvious these numbers are not going down anytime soon. Flattening the curve is doubtful but herd immunity may be tolerable if the virulence of the virus is low. As long as cases don't grow exponentially and death stays low I believe Thailand remains a relatively safe place to ride this out.

How many more carriers or infected people are out there.Curfew is coming soon,i think

6 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Lockdown hasn't started yet?

it's scheduled but not know when implemented, Prayut said was waiting for the right time,....as always, Thailand  is on a reactive path not on a proactive/preventive one

Not exponential even slightly! Something is being done right.

9 minutes ago, Eibot said:

Again, relatively good news people. Breathe..

 

Good news???

 

I think 143 new cases is the highest single day increase since this started, and if not THE highest, it's right up there among the highest.

 

And the numbers probably would be much much higher if the government's CV testing were widespread and easy to obtain, which it's not.

 

There nothing in this that strikes me as good news.

 

Right now, there's almost 7500 people admitted as inpatients in Thai hospitals with COVID type symptoms, and most of those apparently are still waiting for confirming tests. It's a much bigger problem than just 143 reported new cases in a day.

 

 

Edited March 29, 20206 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

1 minute ago, stuhan said:

How many more carriers or infected people are out there.Curfew is coming soon,i think

If there is any accuracy to the numbers being released a curfew would be counter productive and this is surely being considered. The government has to balance economic impact vs health impact. Many, many Thai's live day to day. It seems obvious Thailand is going to get through this with partial social distancing and partial herd immunity and that may not be intolerable as long as the most severe symptoms caused by the virus remain low.

3 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

it's scheduled but not know when implemented, Prayut said was waiting for the right time,....as always, Thailand  is on a reactive path not on a proactive/preventive one

Locking down just kills jobs and lives, be proactive and don't do a lockdown

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Good news???

 

I think 143 new cases is the highest single day increase since this started, and if not THE highest, it's right up there among the highest.

 

And the numbers probably would be much much higher if the government's CV testing were widespread and easy to obtain, which it's not.

 

There nothing in this that strikes me as good news.

 

Breathe Jonny. The numbers will get higher than this and are most likely X10 in reality. It doesn't seem to have the exponential grow up like it does in Europe, therefore it's good news.

12 minutes ago, Kaopad999 said:

Clearly people have not been taking advice to self isolate.. 

 

Clearly the government have not taken advice to test and do contact tracing !!

 

 

3 minutes ago, jmccarty said:

Not exponential even slightly! Something is being done right

 

No, they aren't testing enough people yet...

 

Everyday over 100 cases, it is pretty scary 

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Good news???

 

I think 143 new cases is the highest single day increase since this started, and if not THE highest, it's right up there among the highest.

 

And the numbers probably would be much much higher if the government's CV testing were widespread and easy to obtain, which it's not.

 

There nothing in this that strikes me as good news.

 

Right now, there's about 7000 people admitted in Thai hospitals with COVID type symptoms, and most of those apparently are still waiting for confirming tests. It's a much bigger problem than just 143 reported new cases in a day.

 

 

they had been testing around +/- 700 people day and reporting +/- 100 people with virus symptoms, maybe, really maybe, they increase the number of daily tests thus the increase in number of detected cases, just my idea

Considering what Thailand has to work with, I think they are overall doing well in handling this.

We have to remember this is a pandemic and there is no way of stopping it. It can only be slowed down. For sure I will rather be here than in US, Italy etc. right now.

Just now, jmccarty said:

Not exponential even slightly! Something is being done right.

How do you know this. What we can tell from these figures is it's not slowing down. What we don't know is how much testing is going on. Is the daily number only those presenting to or being hospitalised. Australia is now testing 600 per 100,000 and this is shown by a rise in infections detected. This is only logical. What is the testing per 100,000 in Thailand. I've been trying to find this but no luck. Maybe someone has seen this. One thing I can safely say is it won't be anywhere near 600. Suprised if it's over 200. 

5 minutes ago, Eibot said:

Breathe Jonny. The numbers will get higher than this and are most likely X10 in reality. It doesn't seem to have the exponential grow up like it does in Europe, therefore it's good news.

 

You're presuming the confirmed case numbers reported daily by the govt reflect the actual spread of the virus in the country... They most certainly DO NOT, as testing remains expensive and hard to obtain. I'm convinced, the spread is far far beyond what the daily officialreport numbers suggest.

 

So, no, I'm not going to "breathe"...

 

10 minutes ago, Eibot said:

You can only see.the effects.of social distancing (not much is happening in Thailand) in about 14 days due to the incubation period.

I totally agree, the numbers however keep slowly maintaining or creeping upwards. What day was the mass exodus from BKK, and into the provinces, 8 days ago I think, so lets see..incubation period is actually truly unknown unless you have a link to a study that locks those numbers in place, could be from ? to ?, not sure the social distancing will be adhered too, lots of young people having parties and gathering in smaller villages as well....just saying, it is truly an unknown

11 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

they had been testing around +/- 700 people day and reporting +/- 100 people with virus symptoms, maybe, really maybe, they increase the number of daily tests thus the increase in number of detected cases, just my idea

700 per day is a very, very, very low number. Last week Germany did 500,000 tests. 700 or so per day. So around 10 people per province on average. Well that's not going to be the case. Most of this testing will be BKK. So very little testing outside BKK. Actual numbers must be higher.

Edited March 29, 20206 yr by dinsdale

11 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Good news???

 

I think 143 new cases is the highest single day increase since this started, and if not THE highest, it's right up there among the highest.

 

 

It's good news only that it is not doubling every day. That will be a problem.

11 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Good news???

 

I think 143 new cases is the highest single day increase since this started, and if not THE highest, it's right up there among the highest.

 

And the numbers probably would be much much higher if the government's CV testing were widespread and easy to obtain, which it's not.

 

There nothing in this that strikes me as good news.

 

Right now, there's almost 7500 people admitted as inpatients in Thai hospitals with COVID type symptoms, and most of those apparently are still waiting for confirming tests. It's a much bigger problem than just 143 reported new cases in a day.

 

 

Last Sunday was the highest with 188 reported 

5 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

700 per day is a very, very, very low number. Last week Germany did 500,000 tests.

 

And the backlog of COVID patients under investigation awaiting test results to confirm or not has now rising to more than 6700 people....according to the DDC's daily report as of yesterday.

Edited March 29, 20206 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

People really don't appear to be taking this social distancing thing all that seriously. I went on a short bicycle ride around Bearing, Samrong, Lasalle and the markets seemed pretty normal. Close to 100% wearing masks but otherwise, close contact and crowded markets. Stores and restaurants were closed with one or two exceptions. 

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