Virus situation sees encouraging improvement but ‘not statistically satisfactory’

By The Nation

 

Yong Poovorawan

 

The Covid-19 situation in the country has seen some improvement due to the government’s new measures to tackle the spread of the virus but is “not statistically satisfactory”, Dr Yong Poovorawan, a virologist at Chulalongkorn University, said.

 

After Covid-19 began spreading, thanks in large part to people contracting the virus after attending Lumpinee Boxing Stadium events, the number of infections has been drastically increasing. Statistically, one infected individual could spread the virus to 2.5 others.

 

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.

 

Last week, however, the infection rate dropped to one person spreading the disease to 1.5. This is the result of new directives imposed by the government. Still, the number is not considered satisfactory until the rate drops to a 1:1 ratio, Yong pointed out.

 

He believes the infection rate tomorrow will be lower, but the path to zero new cases still has some way to go.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30385529

 

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"Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand."

 

Naturally not a single Chinese tourist spread the virus in the land of smiles out of consideration for their Thai brothers and sisters.

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by wasabi

Not exactly great analysis. We know social distancing needs a month plus to work. 2 months will do a lot.

1 minute ago, wasabi said:

 

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.

Naturally not a single Chinese tourist spread the virus in the land of smiles out of consideration for their Thai brothers and sisters.

Yep, not a single one. They wouldnt want to upset the great panda would they.

They're not doing enough testing to even think about saying it seems encouraging , this country has such a huge population and just over 25,000 tests have been done whereas Australia has a relatively small population in a very large country and have done over 330,000 tests . Thailand is so far behind they should conduct at least 250,000 before they start talking about better days ahead . 

Only 38 today (07Apr2020)? http://covid19.ddc.moph.go.th/en.. a ruse to convince people that the curfew is working. ????

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.

But not from China?

 

As i vividly recall, entire plane loads of Chinese tourists were still landing unhindered at the country's airports even WEEKS after the virus crisis had kicked off. Around the corner from my house is a hotel that was purpose-built to exclusively accommodate Chinese tourists. It was still solidly booked out every single night by Chinese tour groups and individual travelers until the number of guests finally dwindled down around mid-March. It is now practically deserted.

 

So why no mentioning of Chinese tourists, Dr. Yong? Why only lay the blame squarely on tourists from Europe and North America?

 

Well, I see from your picture that you seem to be of Chinese heritage....  

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by Misterwhisper

27 minutes ago, wasabi said:

 

"Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand."

 

Naturally not a single Chinese tourist spread the virus in the land of smiles out of consideration for their Thai brothers and sisters.

Just about to write that and saw your comment.

 

 

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand

And insanely they now make  those tourist attend extremely overcrowded immigration offices..when other countries have announced amnesties...no need to go out and mingle with everyone !!!

59 minutes ago, webfact said:

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.

This is getting ridiculous. How about it is a Chinese virus and they let the Chinese in continuously here to run amuck? And what about the Thai? Oh no, never the Thai themselves. Just ridiculous.

 

China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, not making immigrant workers subjected to testing or health certs, and and  and …. Thai coming back from being abroad...

 

This bashing the North American and EU more or less Caucasians is getting way too much.

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by holy cow cm

43 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America,

and as always the dirty farangs fault.... not a single asian, Chinese or other would had brought the virus to Thailand, when will this people open their eyes & mouth and see & say the truth

33 minutes ago, Forza2002 said:

Only 38 today (07Apr2020)? http://covid19.ddc.moph.go.th/en.. a ruse to convince people that the curfew is working. ????

Thai way of propaganda.... similar type of reporting seen with Thai big brother (China) when it's convenient lower the numbers when it becomes questionable & obvious raise the numbers

30 minutes ago, Misterwhisper said:

So why no mentioning of Chinese tourists, Dr. Yong? Why only lay the blame squarely on tourists from Europe and North America?

My wife told me this morning she was told today that the virus came from Italy and was spread by Americans both through China an Thailand. She said this was coming through Chinese news sources. My Father-in-law tells me different. He tells me this came from the Chinese. My Mother-in-law is Chinese and blames it on the Chinese but it seems the powers to be want a different message. The powers to be are the CCP.

 

This is the Wuhan Flu - don't try to tell me different. Until we we doing high levels of testing here, this is all just smoke and mirrors. I hope the numbers are reducing but with little testing, we cannot realistically say. 

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by totally thaied up

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand

while conveniently overlooking the Thai's who returned from S K about a month ago some of who legged it without doing the quarantine .. and we'll not mention the mob rule at the airport the other night with returnee's calling the shot's whether they done the quarantine .. and obviously they've also forgotten the 000's of Chinese pouring in earlier in the year .. 

Can you please explain to this former statistics lecturer what you mean by "‘not statistically satisfactory’"?

"Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand"  Makes me want to puke, puke puke! Which nationalilty tourists came here in January and February this year with slit eyes coughing and spitting all over the place?? 

I've been coming to Thailand for 25 years. I supported hundreds of people 2004 after the tsuanmi.. Now I am one of those dirty scumbag Europeans spreading COVID-19? Get your facts right,... Made in China and spread by Chinese!

Oh and his name Poorovan... yes a lot of Poo coming out of his mouth!

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by ian007
adding name

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Foreign tourists, especially from Europe and America, and crowded locations were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.

... and crowded locations , like immigration offices ... were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.

7 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

... and crowded locations , like immigration offices ... were other reasons behind the spread of Covid-19 in Thailand.

It hasn't kicked off from an immigration office yet.....if it does,(which is looking more likely everyday) the numbers will sky rocket......but can put full blame on foreigners then.????

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by William Osborne

5 hours ago, keith101 said:

They're not doing enough testing to even think about saying it seems encouraging , this country has such a huge population and just over 25,000 tests have been done whereas Australia has a relatively small population in a very large country and have done over 330,000 tests . Thailand is so far behind they should conduct at least 250,000 before they start talking about better days ahead . 

At 5,000bht per test, what kind of results are you looking for?

Thailand will rewrite history and blame the white tourists for the spread of this outbreak. 

4 minutes ago, BobbyL said:

Thailand will rewrite history and blame the white tourists for the spread of this outbreak. 

if you are on Facebook' search for 'Spotlight Thailand'

 - it is already being forcefed into the locals heads...

Just follow the Thread here instead:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1158281-is-this-facebook-page-advocating-use-violence-against-foreigners-in-phuket/?tab=comments#comment-15267003

 

 

Edited April 7, 20206 yr by tifino

5 hours ago, johng said:

 

 

And insanely they now make  those tourist attend extremely overcrowded immigration offices..when other countries have announced amnesties...no need to go out and mingle with everyone !!!

Jomtien immigration today was terrible according to many sources. There were a few foreigners kicking off about it and rightly so. 

 

It's criminal mismanagement from the gangs that now run this country. 

 

The less I say about the accusations from the article blaming the spread on Westerners the better, suffice to say if you believe that you are either a inadequate racist POS or an idiot. 

 

 

6 hours ago, keith101 said:

They're not doing enough testing to even think about saying it seems encouraging , this country has such a huge population and just over 25,000 tests have been done whereas Australia has a relatively small population in a very large country and have done over 330,000 tests . Thailand is so far behind they should conduct at least 250,000 before they start talking about better days ahead . 

That whole test is fake......watch this video and you know why it is.....https://www.davidicke.com/article/567418/david-icke-live-london-real-today-330pm-uk

He should have mentioned the stupidity of foreigners being made to queue in their hundreds by the immigration 

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Edited April 7, 20206 yr by JCP108
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5 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

Can you please explain to this former statistics lecturer what you mean by "‘not statistically satisfactory’"?

The statistics are not satisfactory to anybody, because they lack the number of tests done, don't include tests in private hospitals, don't count asymptomatic but tested positives as confirmed, you mean that sort of thing?

What Corona Virus?

One death in Thailand yesterday.

what about the famous Chinese      ????????

22 hours ago, DrTuner said:

The statistics are not satisfactory to anybody, because they lack the number of tests done, don't include tests in private hospitals, don't count asymptomatic but tested positives as confirmed, you mean that sort of thing?

This article explains what and why about the low numbers.It's too expensive.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/10901/thailand-says-focused-testing-more-important-than-mass-testing-mass-testing-very-expensive/