Thailand reports lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since March 14

[webfact]

Thailand reports 13 new coronavirus cases, one new death

 

FILE PHOTO: Reuters

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand reported 13 new coronavirus cases on Thursday and one more death, a 78-year-old woman who had other health complications.

 

Of the new cases, five were linked to previous cases and five had no known links.

 

Three other new cases were reported from the southern island of Phuket where the authorities are aggressively testing the population because the infection rate there is severe, said Taweesin Wisanuyothin, a spokesman for the government's Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration.

 

Since the outbreak escalated in January, Thailand has reported a total of 2,839 cases and 50 fatalities, while 2,430 patients have recovered and gone home.

 

(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-23

 

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[petermik]

Good news again....

[Yadon Toploy]

Just in time to open up again before either the government coughs up cash or the people start to riot.

 

Funny that.

[JetsetBkk]

8 minutes ago, webfact said:

because the infection rate there is severe

Severe? Compare with New York.

[webfact]

Only 13 new Covid-19 cases after peak of 188

By The Nation

 

 

Thailand continued to make gains in containing the Covid-19 outbreak with 13 new cases confirmed over a 24-hour period and one death, Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman of the government's Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Thursday (April 23).  The total number of Covid-19 patients rose to 2,839.

 

He said Thursday's was the lowest number of new cases in a month day since the peak of 188 on March 22.

 

The number of fatalities increased to 50, while 2,430 patients have recovered and returned to their homes and 359 are undergoing treatment in hospitals.

 

In the last two weeks, new cases have been generally on a downward trend.

 

On April 9 there were 54 new cases, 50 on April 10, 45 on April 11, 33 on April 12, 28 on April 13, 34 on April 14, 30 on April 15, 29 on April 16 ,28 on April 17, 33 on April 18, 32 April 19, 27 on April 22, 19 April 21 and 15 April 22.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30386608

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-04-23

 

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[kevin612]

Nice, single digit would be awesome. Stay safe, everyone.

[Guderian]

They really need to stop playing around in the margins looking for a new case here and two news cases there and start mass-testing of immigrant workers stuck in crowded dormitories. Around 80% of all cases in Singapore have been linked to dormitories housing low-paid workers. Construction sites around Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok would be a good place to start.

 

And while they're at it, aggressive testing of compounds and villages where low-paid Thais live in overcrowded conditions is also needed. If the virus is currently circulating undetected among the general population, waiting for its chance to start some clusters leading to uncontrolled exponential growth, then these are the places it's most likely to be, where the low-paid of any nationality are forced to endure cramped and crowded conditions (not just foreigners, geddit it Khun Prayut and Khun Anutin?).

 

Please get you thumbs out of your butts, testing people, measuring the temperature of 100,000 motorists in air-conditioned cars and finding that none of them has an elevated temperature tells you nothing useful at all. Go ye forth into the poor places and test many souls there, if you dare!

[Solidpoo]

2 minutes ago, Guderian said:

They really need to stop playing around in the margins looking for a new case here and two news cases there and start mass-testing of immigrant workers stuck in crowded dormitories. Around 80% of all cases in Singapore have been linked to dormitories housing low-paid workers. Construction sites around Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok would be a good place to start.

 

And while they're at it, aggressive testing of compounds and villages where low-paid Thais live in overcrowded conditions is also needed. If the virus is currently circulating undetected among the general population, waiting for its chance to start some clusters leading to uncontrolled exponential growth, then these are the places it's most likely to be, where the low-paid of any nationality are forced to endure cramped and crowded conditions (not just foreigners, geddit it Khun Prayut and Khun Anutin?).

 

Please get you thumbs out of your butts, testing people, measuring the temperature of 100,000 motorists in air-conditioned cars and finding that none of them has an elevated temperature tells you nothing useful at all. Go ye forth into the poor places and test many souls there, if you dare!

If the locals cant afford the cost for testing, non of the migrant workers would be able to afford it. 

[spiekerjozef]

Only 359 left in hospital for treatment.

Well done Thailand.

[rkidlad]

Reading about how one of the 13 included went to hospital for surgery. They did a covid test on him as a precaution and he tested positive. 
 

I don’t want things to go back to normal as soon as possible. I want things to go back to normal as soon as it’s safe to. Lots of stories from China of areas going on lockdown again. 

[JCP108]

Amazing.

[RichardColeman]

5 minutes ago, JCP108 said:

Amazing.

'Amazingly unbelievable' I think you mean

[OneeyedJohn]

It's just hilarious, well it is and it isn't.

 

[BobbyL]

Three other new cases were reported from the southern island of Phuket where the authorities are aggressively testing the population because the infection rate there is severe

 

Severe? There is absolutely nothing severe about the numbers they're releasing. Still 0.7 deaths per million. 

[JCP108]

1 minute ago, BobbyL said:

Three other new cases were reported from the southern island of Phuket where the authorities are aggressively testing the population because the infection rate there is severe

 

Severe? There is absolutely nothing severe about the numbers they're releasing. Still 0.7 deaths per million. 

One or two infections severely hampers the goal of getting to zero infections by the end of next week.

[BobbyL]

Just now, JCP108 said:

One or two infections severely hampers the goal of getting to zero infections by the end of next week.

One or two new infections should not be classed as 'severe' in a press release.  

[bodga]

49 minutes ago, Guderian said:

crowded dormitories. Around 80% of all cases in Singapore have been linked to dormitories

Which may mean it  only transmits easily in close confine with others.

[JCP108]

4 minutes ago, BobbyL said:

One or two new infections should not be classed as 'severe' in a press release.  

Yeah. In the context of the current global crisis and the real severity of infections elsewhere, it's bizarro to call a couple of infections severe. 

[sapson]

No Sh@t Sherlock!.

 

Thailands release of miraculous figures from numbers picked three days ago!

 

 

[Susco]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Three other new cases were reported from the southern island of Phuket where the authorities are aggressively testing the population

The answer why there are 3 new infections in Phuket, and not elsewhere, is in the last part of the sentence

[DavisH]

14 minutes ago, JCP108 said:

Yeah. In the context of the current global crisis and the real severity of infections elsewhere, it's bizarro to call a couple of infections severe. 

Prebably 'severe' compared to some provinces that haven't had new infections for a month (or two weeks in some cases). Many provinces have less than 10 reported cases. 

 I hope to see some provinces reduce restrictions soon, while still limiting interprovincial movement. 

[sapson]

57 minutes ago, Guderian said:

They really need to stop playing around in the margins looking for a new case here and two news cases there and start mass-testing of immigrant workers stuck in crowded dormitories. Around 80% of all cases in Singapore have been linked to dormitories housing low-paid workers. Construction sites around Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok would be a good place to start.

 

And while they're at it, aggressive testing of compounds and villages where low-paid Thais live in overcrowded conditions is also needed. If the virus is currently circulating undetected among the general population, waiting for its chance to start some clusters leading to uncontrolled exponential growth, then these are the places it's most likely to be, where the low-paid of any nationality are forced to endure cramped and crowded conditions (not just foreigners, geddit it Khun Prayut and Khun Anutin?).

 

Please get you thumbs out of your butts, testing people, measuring the temperature of 100,000 motorists in air-conditioned cars and finding that none of them has an elevated temperature tells you nothing useful at all. Go ye forth into the poor places and test many souls there, if you dare!

Totally agree.!!!......l but they are working to their own agenda of minimal sporadic testing if that and publishing a daily downward trend of cases, bearing no relation to the 70 million population.

 

They appear not to care about the harsh reality and churn out nonsense figures like TAT!

 

WHO and heads of state should be calling soon to consult Prayut on his magical Covid 19 management policy.

[DavisH]

14 minutes ago, sapson said:

No Sh@t Sherlock!.

 

Thailands release of miraculous figures from numbers picked three days ago!

 

 

So what? Of courtse there is a lag in the numbers being reported from the date of testing. Do you expect 100's of cases to be reported tomorrow? I highly doubt it. Even doubling the testing rate will make little difference to the postive number of cases. 

[chrisinth]

1 hour ago, kevin612 said:

Nice, single digit would be awesome. Stay safe, everyone.

Single digits was part of the criteria of lifting restrictions, a big part of it.

 

The optimist in me wants to believe the steady decrease in reported cases and the extremely low fatality rate (compared to other regions of the world), but the pessimistic side side of me is screaming for the authorities to proceed with caution on the road back to (a very distant) normality. We all know the pressure is on for the government to appease the population; I just hope they don't take shortcuts.

 

Yes, there is a very big economic crisis happening, but to run the economy you need healthy workers, without the fear of a second wave suddenly happening.

 

Crawl before walk before run. That, IMO, is a mantra they should be chanting.

 

(Miserable git today it seems, sorry about that..................... )

[Canuck1966]

I always wondered what sort of person fell for the sick buffalo stories ????

After reading these threads for the last gazillion days I now know!

Jeez there are some seriously dimwitted foreigners in Thailand

[hottrader77]

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

They really need to stop playing around in the margins looking for a new case here and two news cases there and start mass-testing of immigrant workers stuck in crowded dormitories. Around 80% of all cases in Singapore have been linked to dormitories housing low-paid workers. Construction sites around Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok would be a good place to start.

 

And while they're at it, aggressive testing of compounds and villages where low-paid Thais live in overcrowded conditions is also needed. If the virus is currently circulating undetected among the general population, waiting for its chance to start some clusters leading to uncontrolled exponential growth, then these are the places it's most likely to be, where the low-paid of any nationality are forced to endure cramped and crowded conditions (not just foreigners, geddit it Khun Prayut and Khun Anutin?).

 

Please get you thumbs out of your butts, testing people, measuring the temperature of 100,000 motorists in air-conditioned cars and finding that none of them has an elevated temperature tells you nothing useful at all. Go ye forth into the poor places and test many souls there, if you dare!

 numbers dont add up after taking away number that left hospital and total number of cases it leaves 50 , 50 dead leaves zero so is'nt new cases supposed to be included in total ? which would leave it at zero , lets start cracking get the bars open , swimming in sea , sex on the beach etc 

[cornishcarlos]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Phuket where the authorities are aggressively testing the population

 

Not testing more, just doing it aggressively....

[sapson]

23 minutes ago, DavisH said:

Do you expect 100's of cases to be reported tomorrow? I highly doubt it.

No I expect a number approaching the single digits perhaps 11 or 10, because thats what they choose to release even a blind man can see whats happening here!

 

Extensive testing  nationwide in relation to a 70 million population especially in the areas that have densely populated communities would give a real picture and abate a lot of future suffering, but it comes at a price of the testing and further extensive monthly support for all! 

 

it would require some huge scoops from the ministerial troughs and possibly a dip into Thailands currency and gold reserves a plan that  doesnt bode well with the leadership.

[brain150]

2,839 cases in a population of 65,000,000 ???

That's 0.004% of the population ... this sounds like a really bad pandemic

 

What a joke this whole FAKE PANDEMIC is ... based on the official numbers !

[FarFlungFalang]

58 minutes ago, bodga said:

Which may mean it  only transmits easily in close confine with others.

Like in a lockdown situation?Like the UK,Europe,Asia,Russia the US and just about every where else?Very clever eh?Listen to the experts yeah right!

Edited April 23, 2020 by FarFlungFalang