Thailand reports one new COVID-19 case, only 90 patients remain in hospital

[webfact]

One case of Covid-19 in state quarantine; only 90 patients in hospitals

By The Nation

 

 

There was one new case of Covid-19 and no death over a 24-hour period, Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, spokesman of the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Wednesday (May 20).

 

The total number of Covid-19 patients increased to 3,034.

 

The new case is a 45-year-old male chef returning from Bahrain and in Bangkok’s state quarantine area.

 

Meanwhile, 31 people have fully recovered and returned home as the patient recovery percentage improved to 96.27.

 

As of May 20, the total number of confirmed cases in the country stood at 3,034 -- 90 are under treatment, 2,888 have recovered and been discharged, and there have been 56 deaths.

 

Globally, there have been more than 4.8 million confirmed cases and around 320,000 deaths

 

Speaking about Covid-19 testing in the country, Dr Taweesin said 328,073 samples from 167 labs (as of May 15) had been tested, a ratio of 4,926 to one million population while 3,028 had confirmed the infection making the positive percentage just 0.92 per cent.

 

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[Metapod]

Its basically been a nothing burger here

 

Let's get the bars and beaches back open

[Mavideol]

for the ones already here correct? because it may still risky to have outsiders coming in

[poskat]

yes,

letting in people from outside of thailand should be the final step based on the infection level in each country.

[Phil McCaverty]

2 hours ago, poskat said:

yes,

letting in people from outside of thailand should be the final step based on the infection level in each country.

It needs to be more than that. Maybe a certificate to say that they are Covid negative or a fast, reliable test that can be done on arrival.

[DavisH]

2 hours ago, poskat said:

yes,

letting in people from outside of thailand should be the final step based on the infection level in each country.

And they need to be direct flights (no transits though high risk countries). 

[steelepulse]

So 320,000 deaths out of 7.8 billion people worldwide over a 4 month period.

 

Sure seems like the world has gone crazy over these numbers. 

[crobe]

Something not adding up in these figures

90 people still under treatment in hospital but 101 people infected in quarantine. Are these not included in the total cases?

 

[JCP108]

"...Dr Taweesin said 328,073 samples from 167 labs (as of May 15) had been tested, a ratio of 4,926 to one million population while 3,028 had confirmed the infection making the positive percentage just 0.92 per cent."

 

But, we have been told that tests are only confirmed if they are processed in not one, but both, of the two official reference labs. So, it's confusing to say that we are calculating a positive percentage with those (narrowly) confirmed cases from the two labs by dividing them by the total number of tests performed at all 167 labs. If we only count positive results from those two labs, we have to not include the tests from the other 165 labs to get the valid positive ratio.

 

Also,

 

"The new case is a 45-year-old male chef returning from Bahrain..."

 

How long has it been since we have gotten a report of someone seemingly becoming infected inside Thailand not having just come in from somewhere else or interacted with someone who just came from outside? Seems that not only is Thailand miraculously mostly free of Covid-19, you can't really even get infected while inside its borders.

 

Let's open things up!

Edited May 20, 2020 by JCP108

[Moonlover]

11 minutes ago, crobe said:

Something not adding up in these figures

90 people still under treatment in hospital but 101 people infected in quarantine. Are these not included in the total cases?

 

To which '101 people infected in quarantine' are you referring to?

[Mama Noodle]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Speaking about Covid-19 testing in the country, Dr Taweesin said 328,073 samples from 167 labs (as of May 15) had been tested, a ratio of 4,926 to one million population while 3,028 had confirmed the infection making the positive percentage just 0.92 per cent.

 

 

Everybody on here fawns over Thailands 'response' to this epidemic, but the US for example tests this much PER DAY. The fact that people still pop up with the rona after days of not having any local cases means the virus is still floating around the population. 

 

All Thailand ever did was wait around for people to report to the hospital sick, on top of which had convoluted criteria for testing the sick person. For months people could have died of viral pneumonia and not even been counted. 

[Swimfan]

What smart country is going to let their people travel to Thailand.. They will just look at the low testing rates and go nah to risky

[sapson]

1 hour ago, JCP108 said:

Seems that not only is Thailand miraculously mostly free of Covid-19, you can't really even get infected while inside its borders.

Absolutely its an amazing miracle Thailand!

 

1 from 70 million population ..... the guy should buy some lottery tickets.

 

Never mind reality lets keep these daft figures coming plenty of paracetamol available and the young folk will mainly recover and thousands of the oldies always die of pneumonia anyway.

 

Truly a charade or some might say a load of boll@cks ! and i thought their was a whole government department devoted to stopping the release of false information on line? 

[crobe]

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

To which '101 people infected in quarantine' are you referring to?

In the report given today by the government spokesman

 

"The largest number of infected returnees in quarantine facilities was 65 from Indonesia, followed by 10 from Pakistan, five from the United Arab Emirates and three from Malaysia. There were a total 101 infected returnees in state quarantine."

 

I cannot include a link to the publication here

[LeamchabangLarry]

1 hour ago, Mama Noodle said:

 

 

Everybody on here fawns over Thailands 'response' to this epidemic, but the US for example tests this much PER DAY. The fact that people still pop up with the rona after days of not having any local cases means the virus is still floating around the population. 

 

All Thailand ever did was wait around for people to report to the hospital sick, on top of which had convoluted criteria for testing the sick person. For months people could have died of viral pneumonia and not even been counted. 

This would have been a terrific point in early April.  Thais run to the hospital at the first sign a drip of snot is out of place.  We would have been seeing this 'floating around the population' by now.

[offset]

Yes but some of these might be not very sick and not require hospital treatment or recovered

[Moonlover]

9 minutes ago, crobe said:

In the report given today by the government spokesman

 

"The largest number of infected returnees in quarantine facilities was 65 from Indonesia, followed by 10 from Pakistan, five from the United Arab Emirates and three from Malaysia. There were a total 101 infected returnees in state quarantine."

 

I cannot include a link to the publication here

OK thank you I understand what you mean now. However there is no discrepancy. All of these cases of infected returnees have been added to the total tally on a day to day basis as they have occurred.

 

So these 101 cases are included in the total of 3,034. In fact there have been a lot more cases from abroad than there have been arising from within the country of late, which is a very good sign indeed.

[Enlil]

In other news. They just completed 25mil field hospital.