Thailand reports eight new coronavirus cases, no new deaths

[webfact]

Thailand reports eight new coronavirus cases, no new deaths

 

FILE PHOTO: Reuters

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Friday reported eight new coronavirus cases but no deaths, bringing the total to 3,000 cases and 55 deaths since the outbreak started in January.

 

Of the new cases, three are from the southern province of Yala where authorities are aggressively testing the population due to high infection rates, said Taweesin Wisanuyothin, spokesman for the government's Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration.

 

Five other new cases are migrants who have been detained at an immigration detention centre in southern Songkhla province, Taweesin said. The centre has seen 60 other cases in the past two weeks.

 

Slowing numbers of new cases have prompted Thailand to cautiously allow some businesses this week to reopen after weeks of semi-lockdown.

 

(Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat. Editing by Kay Johnson.)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-05-08

 

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[khwaibah]

23 minutes ago, webfact said:

total to 3,000 cases and 55 deaths since the outbreak started in January.

Congratulation Thailand. You are now an official hub for coronavirus.????

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

38 minutes ago, webfact said:

The centre has seen 60 other cases in the past two weeks.

 

Has Thailand even reported TOTAL new cases of 60+ nationwide in the past two weeks?

 

Apart from here saying in this article there were 60 CV cases just from one Songkhla detention facility alone in the past two weeks....

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[graemeaylward]

 

44 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Has Thailand even reported TOTAL new cases of 60+ nationwide in the past two weeks?

There were 53 reported on 25th April preceded by 15 the previous day and 15 the day after ????

[Guderian]

As long as they can handle the Deep South problem and keep matters contained down there, then all eyes will be on Bangkok and when it will reach "White Zone" status. You can't very well declare the problem contained when the capital city is still considered to be an active zone. When did Bangkok last report a new case, was it last Sunday or more recently? Once Bangkok reaches 14 days without a new case I think we will see yet more restrictions lifted.

[cyril sneer]

curve is starting to rise

[DrTuner]

To paraphrase last few days:

 

'It's a rising trend, panic, we're all gonna die!!!!'

 

Since it's ok to draw conclusions from the propaganda numbers and short term "trends".

[DrTuner]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Has Thailand even reported TOTAL new cases of 60+ nationwide in the past two weeks?

 

Apart from here saying in this article there were 60 CV cases just from one Songkhla detention facility alone in the past two weeks....

 

That's easy enough to check: https://opend.data.go.th/search_virtuoso/after/index.jsp?language=en&dsname=vir_3277_1584880342 , search for ยะลา in province of isolation.

 

Playing around a bit I get this, but having trouble sorting by day:

 

Ok so much for that search...

 

No matches in May except in the announce date. Hrmh. Their search doesn't work. You'll need to download the whole dataset and filter in excel. TiT.

Edited May 8, 2020 by DrTuner

[webfact]

Eight new cases takes Thailand's Covid-19 total to 3,000

By The Nation

 

 

Thailand maintained the recent trend of single-digit daily increase in Covid-19 cases after eight more people tested positive, but there were no deaths over a 24-hour period, Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman of the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), said on Friday (May 8).

 

Cumulative Covid-19 cases since the outbreak increased to 3,000.

 

Three new cases -- a 45-year-old man and two 51-year-old men -- were found during proactive testing in Yala. They had close contacts with previous patients who had returned from Malaysia.

 

The other five were female immigrant workers (aged 19-30), who were found to be infected in Songkla’s immigration quarantine area.

Meanwhile, 12 people have fully recovered and returned home with patient recovery rate at 92.8 per cent.

 

As of May 8, the total number of confirmed cases in the country stood at 3,000 -- 161 are under treatment, 2,784 have recovered and been discharged, and there have been 55 deaths.

 

Globally, there have been more than 3.84 million confirmed cases and around 269,000 deaths

Chachoengsao, Nakhon Sawan, Phayao, and Surat Thani have joined the list of provinces without any new case being reported in the last 28 days.

 

Doctors have added an inability to smell as one of the symptoms of Covid-19 infection. People experiencing the symptoms have been urged to test themselves at a nearby hospital.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30387505

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-05-08

 

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[Tingnongnoi]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Has Thailand even reported TOTAL new cases of 60+ nationwide in the past two weeks?

 

Apart from here saying in this article there were 60 CV cases just from one Songkhla detention facility alone in the past two weeks....

 

53 new cases were reported on 24th of April exactly two weeks ago and 42 of them were from this detention facility

[DrTuner]

40 minutes ago, webfact said:

Doctors have added an inability to smell as one of the symptoms of Covid-19 infection. People experiencing the symptoms have been urged to test themselves at a nearby hospital.

Here: https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/g_srrt.php

 

That was in 1st of May already.

Edited May 8, 2020 by DrTuner

[pixelaoffy]

And the mad crazy control freaks in control make the decision to close schools, shops, beaches , curfews .. with less than 3000 cases and 55 deaths over 2 months. No respect for Thailand anymore  

[barney42bb]

Get ready for that 2nd Wave folks...It's a nailed on certainty.... Thailand you cannot fiddle your way out of a Pandemic.

[DrTuner]

7 minutes ago, barney42bb said:

Get ready for that 2nd Wave folks...It's a nailed on certainty.... Thailand you cannot fiddle your way out of a Pandemic.

Judging by the false sense of security they've now managed to instill with their propaganda figures (ain't no corona in Thailand, I'll do whatever the hell I please, let's go lick some mosque gates), the second wave will be bad. 

[Greg O]

High infection rates, second wave of ....stupidity maybe. Glad it's not a real emergency !

[revup]

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Has Thailand even reported TOTAL new cases of 60+ nationwide in the past two weeks?

 

Apart from here saying in this article there were 60 CV cases just from one Songkhla detention facility alone in the past two weeks....

 

Yes, there were 151 cases reported in the previous 14 days. In my graph (pdf file) the spike on 25 April was due to migrants in Sonkla. All stopped by immigration and still in quarantine.

Covid new cases.pdf

Edited May 8, 2020 by revup

[J Town]

From the website https://ncov2019.live/data/asia

 

 

Edited May 8, 2020 by J Town
Forgot the attachment - Doh!

[RBOP]

I see Australia has good reopening plan. Why not Thailand?

[M71]

A Goat and a Fruit test positive for Covid-19 in Africa

 

 

"Coronavirus test kits used in Tanzania were dismissed as faulty by President John Magufuli. The president instructed Tanzanian security forces to check the quality of the imported kits. They had randomly obtained several non-human samples, including from a pawpaw (papaya type fruit), a goat and a sheep, but had assigned them human names."

These samples were then submitted to Tanzania's laboratory to test for the coronavirus, with the lab technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins. Samples from the pawpaw and the goat tested positive for COVID-19, the president said, adding this meant it was likely that some people were being tested positive when in fact they were not.”

* We also learn from a BBC story that motor oil cells were tested and came back "inconclusive!"

 

World Health Organization has flooded Africa with millions of testing kits -- many of them, we now know, having been deliberately contaminated so as to yield false positives (and possibly to actually infect those tested). A story from the South China Morning Post (February 19, 2020):

 

WHO Sends Coronavirus Test Kits to Africa

Forty countries will be able to diagnose the disease, and the Africa CDC is training health care workers.

 

  Time Magazine, April 16, 2020:

 

More Than 1 Million Coronavirus Tests to Be Rolled out in African Countries
“Maybe 15 million tests” will be required in Africa over the next three months, John Nkengasong said."

And look who else has been shipping boatloads of testing kits to Africa – the oh-so-caring Bill Gates of Hell (who is also a main funder of WHO). From SABC News (South Africa) – dated April 5:

Bill Gates to Assist African Countries with Coronavirus Testing Kits

"Microsoft founder and philanthropist, Bill Gates, has committed to assist African countries with mass-based testing kits for the coronavirus. Gates has had talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa on Africa’s approach to the pandemic."

 

But Tanzanian President Magufuli is evidently not moved by the “compassion” of WHO and Gates:

"There is something happening. I said before we should not accept that every aid is meant to be good for this nation."

 

 

[lkv]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Three new cases -- a 45-year-old man and two 51-year-old men -- were found during proactive testing in Yala.

????????????????????????

[Old Croc]

With so many cases occurring in the detention facility it's clear Thailand is failing greatly in their duty of care. The human rights people will be getting involved soon.

Who's in this centre, migrant workers, Rohinga? 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

curve is starting to rise

In the south yes!

[Purdey]

3 hours ago, pixelaoffy said:

And the mad crazy control freaks in control make the decision to close schools, shops, beaches , curfews .. with less than 3000 cases and 55 deaths over 2 months. No respect for Thailand anymore  

It could mean they know something we don't know. Which is very likely as we don't know much at all.

[JohnnyChristo]

6 hours ago, khwaibah said:

Congratulation Thailand. You are now an official hub for coronavirus.????

This is the beginning of the undenieable. The worst is about to to be. bodies on the streets. Wake up and stop denying. 
there should be hard evidence of thousands of tests daily 

[Ventenio]

We will know SOON...... SCHOOLS!!!!!

 

Mid-June and July.  

 

Farang teachers getting sick, or kids, other teachers, schools closing.

 

if lots of schools close for whatever reason, well, there you go.

 

If billie the farang backpacker teacher does quarantine, teaches, and gets sick, well, there you go

 

i have a feeling it will make the news

[Kmoore]

1 hour ago, JohnnyChristo said:

This is the beginning of the undenieable. The worst is about to to be. bodies on the streets. Wake up and stop denying. 
there should be hard evidence of thousands of tests daily 

The other 50pct of people on this site say it's a hoax.  Well, which is it?

[Kmoore]

6 hours ago, Guderian said:

As long as they can handle the Deep South problem and keep matters contained down there, then all eyes will be on Bangkok and when it will reach "White Zone" status. You can't very well declare the problem contained when the capital city is still considered to be an active zone. When did Bangkok last report a new case, was it last Sunday or more recently? Once Bangkok reaches 14 days without a new case I think we will see yet more restrictions lifted.

 

6 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

curve is starting to rise

Please explain exactly what you mean by curve is starting to rise.  The linear trend line is actually showing a -3.13 slope since the peak of 188 cases on 22 March.  The 5-day moving average is flatish - not rising at all. 

[J Town]

11 minutes ago, Kmoore said:

1 hour ago, JohnnyChristo said:

This is the beginning of the undenieable. The worst is about to to be. bodies on the streets. Wake up and stop denying. 
there should be hard evidence of thousands of tests daily 

The other 50pct of people on this site say it's a hoax.  Well, which is it?

The US president has said he does not want a large testing process set up because the numbers will make him look bad.

[cyril sneer]

1 hour ago, Kmoore said:

 

Please explain exactly what you mean by curve is starting to rise.  The linear trend line is actually showing a -3.13 slope since the peak of 188 cases on 22 March.  The 5-day moving average is flatish - not rising at all. 

numbers have consecutively risen for the past 3 days

 

this makes the curve go up (rise)

[elliss]

5 hours ago, barney42bb said:

Get ready for that 2nd Wave folks...It's a nailed on certainty.... Thailand you cannot fiddle your way out of a Pandemic.

 

 Oh , yes they can .

   Uk , sick big time . Rip ..

    All join in the chorus , we'll meet again , thx Vera..