Five Asean countries named as high-risk for Covid-19 infection

By THE NATION

 

 

Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia and Myanmar have been added to the list of countries and territories considered as high risk for the new coronavirus (Covid-19) infection on the Royal Gazette website.

 

A Ministry of Public Health announcement on Wednesday (April 22), signed by Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, stated that the Covid-19 situation in these countries was escalating.

 

Under Sections 5 and 8 of the Communicable Disease Act BE 2558, these countries were named as high risk for infection, in order to increase efficiency in disease prevention and control among Thai authorities.

 

On March 6, Thailand had named four countries -- China (including Hong Kong and Macau), South Korea, Italy and Iran -- as being high risk for Covid-19 infection.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30386597

 

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Malaysia - 5,532 cases

Cambodia - 122

Laos - 19

Indonesia - 7,418

Myanmar - 123

Thailand - 2,826

 

Why isn't Thailand on the list? (rhetorical question)

 

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

 

 

And The Philippines..??

I'm surprised Laos is on the list.  The borders have been tightly closed for some time now, and the lockdown, even in villages, is being enforced.  All 19 cases are accounted for and efforts have been made to trace everyone on the affected flights/transport.  

4 minutes ago, Wiggy said:

Malaysia - 5,532 cases

Cambodia - 122

Laos - 19

Indonesia - 7,418

Myanmar - 123

Thailand - 2,826

 

Why isn't Thailand on the list? (rhetorical question)

 

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

 

 

I guess because it's a Thai Ministry announcement about other countries, not their own!

But the USA, UK, France and Spain haven't joined Italy on the list! And what about Singapore, where the problem is escalating faster than any other southeast Asian country?

 

Why bother; it's a worldwide problem. It just isn't worth naming specific countries as things change constantly.

This list is useless its total infections since the start;

 

This data is a few days old 

What you have to look at is Active cases

Japan has a lot of active cases

 

the critical cases are reflective of elderly and at risk population which only really show up in nations that have such care.
The data from Myanmar just cannot be trusted
& the data from India in that they have no critical cases very misleading
I think Thailand should worry more about Saudi & India rather than having Laos on its list 
 

Edited April 23, 20206 yr by andy72

50 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

I'm surprised Laos is on the list.  The borders have been tightly closed for some time now, and the lockdown, even in villages, is being enforced.  All 19 cases are accounted for and efforts have been made to trace everyone on the affected flights/transport.  

Ditto Cambodia and 0 cases detected there in last 2 weeks.

 

Cambodia and Laos have reason to fear Thailand not the other way atound.

13 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Ditto Cambodia and 0 cases detected there in last 2 weeks.

 

Cambodia and Laos have reason to fear Thailand not the other way atound.

Dont take too much notice its just ANUTIN running off from the mouth again. "Motor Mouth" can be his new nick name.????

well thats 4 immediate Land crossings that may stay closed

Edited April 23, 20206 yr by andy72

1 hour ago, andy72 said:

well thats 4 immediate Land crossings that may stay closed

seems to encompass all Thailands border crossings and the maritime border with Indonesia so might suggest there is a bit more to come with this as part of a tool to totally close all borders particularly with the other news of two immigration officers infected at Sadao.

3 hours ago, Wiggy said:

Why isn't Thailand on the list? (rhetorical question)

Falang callot understand  

 

On the other hand, as a farang I still cannot understand why stop a country and put 20 million people in technical unemployment for 2500 cases and 40 dead when there are more deaths in one day on the roads in this country .

Keeping the nonsense factor high is key to this FAKE Pandemic !!!

 

2 minutes ago, brain150 said:

Keeping the nonsense factor high is key to this FAKE Pandemic !!!

 

What are you on about?

I hope this is not the start of an attempt to list all the 'bad' countries and then allow tourism in from the 'good' ones - one of which will be China of course.

2 hours ago, andy72 said:

well thats 4 immediate Land crossings that may stay closed

That is the likely unstated goal for naming those countries, irrespective of their covid case stats. Adding them to the list legitimizes continued closing off those countries for arrivals into the Kingdom.

4 hours ago, Wiggy said:

Malaysia - 5,532 cases

Over 50% of which has recovered

The top five most infected countries in ASEAN are Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

 

Why are the low risk countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos included? It doesn't make sense.

Edited April 23, 20206 yr by EricTh

2 hours ago, lust said:

What are you on about?

Just look at the numbers !!!

Less than 10,000 cases each and still everybody talks about a Pandemic ?

 

There are more people dying from eating Som Tam than from this fake pandemic !!!

2 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

Falang callot understand  

 

On the other hand, as a farang I still cannot understand why stop a country and put 20 million people in technical unemployment for 2500 cases and 40 dead when there are more deaths in one day on the roads in this country .

Maybe because Corona virus is very infectious whereas road accidents are not

7 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Maybe because Corona virus is very infectious whereas road accidents are not

Very infectious for the overweight and obese.

5 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Ditto Cambodia and 0 cases detected there in last 2 weeks.

 

Cambodia and Laos have reason to fear Thailand not the other way atound.

unfortunately always easy for Thailand to blame the other side

Malaysia's daily new cases have dropped since the middle of April, from three to two digits. Active cases also dropping, if what a mate shared is correct. And the Malaysian lockdown may well be extended, despite this. The way they handled the crisis, headed by their Director-General of public health (or something like that), have been recognised one of the best by the international community. Meanwhile, Singapore is registering four-figure increases after they 'flattened the curve'. Try to keep up, Anutin and gang, and actually do something proactive. For once.

Here's a hint: the closest WHO reference labs in the area for Laos & co are in Thailand. MoPH knows more than they let out.

 

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-reference-laboratories-providing-confirmatory-testing-for-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=a03a01e6_8

32 minutes ago, baansgr said:

Maybe because Corona virus is very infectious whereas road accidents are not

I think I could argue the cause of road accidents, stupidity, has an R0 of about 500. As they say in the country of my origin "Stupidity intensifies in the crowds".

3 hours ago, Assurancetourix said:

Falang callot understand  

 

On the other hand, as a farang I still cannot understand why stop a country and put 20 million people in technical unemployment for 2500 cases and 40 dead when there are more deaths in one day on the roads in this country .

Show control....

1 hour ago, brain150 said:

Just look at the numbers !!!

Less than 10,000 cases each and still everybody talks about a Pandemic ?

 

There are more people dying from eating Som Tam than from this fake pandemic !!!

Hmm.. let’s say the world opens up again. Over time the world is infected. Around 7billion people. With a mortality rate of let’s say 3%. If there’s no vaccine, you’re looking at 210,000,000 deaths.

Even half don’t show symptoms, +100million deaths.

 

Edited April 23, 20206 yr by lust

Sorry Anutin - wrong again!  Get your brain into gear, Cambodia does not have an escalating infection rate (at the moment):-

Source Wikipedia (no deaths to date)

 

COVID-19 cases in Cambodia  (      Deaths        Recoveries        Active cases Jan Feb Mar Apr Last 15 days
Date			# of cases	# of recoveries
04/07			115(+0.88%)	58(+9.43%)
04/08			117(+1.74%)	63(+8.62%)
04/09			118(+0.85%)	68(+7.94%)
04/10			119(+0.85%)	72(+5.88%)
04/11			120(+0.84%)	75(+4.17%)
04/12			122(+1.67%)	77(+10%)
04/13			122	77
04/14			122	91(+18.18%)
04/15			122	96(+5.49%)
04/16			122	98(+2.08%)
04/17			122	98
04/18			122	103(+5.1%)
04/19			122	105(+1.94%)
04/20			122	107(+1.9%)
04/21			122	110(+2.8%)

22 minutes ago, lust said:

Hmm.. let’s say the world opens up again. Over time the world is infected. Around 7billion people. With a mortality rate of let’s say 3%. If there’s no vaccine, you’re looking at 210,000,000 deaths.

Even half don’t show symptoms, +100million deaths.

 

I read a report yesterday in the Mail Online and it said a study in California found the mortality rate at 0.18.

210,000,000

and all at once that is the main problem'

 

health services cannot cope 

you cannot dig holes fast enough

 

you gotta carry out autopsies 

or Johnny be desperate is suffocating grandma in her bed to get his inheritance early

 

there are such a multitude of reasons

plus the 210,000,000 is  a soft estimate

 

its an ethics problem 

who do we condemn to death

 

that's why we have lock downs

 

the sad truth is BORIS survived if he had died its a whole new ball game

he had his chance to go down in history and he blew that too

bumbling Boris...

 

I would not trust figures from Myanmar especially the cesspit that is Yangon

 

Laos is still so under developed its easy to think that they dont have a lot of infections

 

even after lock down and the 'new' normal  there is still the same risk

this virus is confusing the hell out of them 

the report of the guy in china still detectable 2 months later

and hes not alone

 

of course everyone wants to blame the test kits

there is so much disbelief in the world these days

the fake news 

closing the internet down on countries

who is to say there is not a few thousand web people hiding out in each countries bunkers making pages or algorithms that make pages to satisfy the masses

what is real what is not

sometime the effects on movies TV astound 

we know how to make false so precisely

 

if the virus is a fake what is the outcome

in every conspiracy crime etc 

you have to look at who benefits

so who benefits from a fake virus

 

so far the only winner is planet earth

the air is cleaner

the ganges is actually cleaner

has the ice poles stopped melting have they slowed

have the fires diminished in Australia

 

Of course for every doomsayer on here

China is the winner its about to take over the world

Its going to be the new economic powerhouse

 

Frankly I just get bored witless by conspiracy theory and all that goes with it and fear of who is going to be the new number 1
the fact is Donnie 'boy' 'MAGA' Trump is the numero uno head honcho 

and you dont worry 

we are screwed one way or the other

chill take a pill 

find a bit of what you fancy

 

welcome to the 'new' normal????????????????????????????????????????????????