Six new Covid-19 cases in state quarantine

By The Nation

 

 

There were six new cases over a 24-hour period, the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Friday (July 31). It was the 67th day without a domestic case since May.

 

Of the new cases, five had returned from Eygpt -- four students were asymptomatric and a 28-year-old had fever and experienced difficulty in breathing. A 52-year-old cruise chef from the Netherlands was asymptomatic, CCSA spokesman Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin said.

 

Meanwhile, 14 people have fully recovered and been discharged from hospitals.

 

As of July 31, the total number of confirmed cases in the country stood at 3,310 (373 in state quarantine) -- 127 are under treatment, 3,125 have recovered and been discharged, and there have been 58 deaths.

 

Globally, the total number of confirmed cases stood at 17.4 million, up by 288,000 on Thursday, 10.9 million have recovered while deaths stood at 676,000.

 

Thailand’s rank dropped to 107th among countries with the most number of cases. The US held the highest number (4.63 million), followed by Brazil (2.6 million) and India (1.6 million).

 

The global death rate from this disease is now at 3.9 per cent.

 

The CCSA expressed concern about the virus situation in Asia, as many countries that had achieved zero cases, such as China, Vietnam, etc, were now reporting increasing number of cases in two or three digits without being able to find the source of the outbreak.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30392218

 

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What's with all the Egyptians lately???

12 minutes ago, GigsGigs said:

What's with all the Egyptians lately???

Egypt has one of the lowest worldwide testing numbers - only  testing 135k in population of 100m. Given that current positives are 94k  (deaths at close to 5k) it would appear that only those that are clearly infected are being tested.

 

So they have basically no idea how many are infected. There are / were thousands of Thai students studying in universities there and, given the low in-country testing, likely that very few, if any, are being tested prior to heading back to Thailand (no testing requirement for Thais). So, no real surprise that a number are being found positive on arrival.

These repatriation flights are scary. 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The CCSA expressed concern about the virus situation in Asia, as many countries that had achieved zero cases, such as China, Vietnam, etc, were now reporting increasing number of cases in two or three digits without being able to find the source of the outbreak.

 

Will Thailand be able to escape? 

33 minutes ago, AndrewMciver said:

These repatriation flights are scary. 

If they allow Non O for retirement purposes to board the plane I am seriosly considering paying silly money for the safer business class seat.

I’ve been hearing the flights are first priority given to Thai people and they take all the economy section.

There might be a few seats left in economy class, but most of seats available will be business class
 

As long as they keep telling us there are cases on arriving repatriation flights and no domestic ones it justifies there decision to mandatory quarantine arrivals. Why don’t they test them before they board the flight, if positive they don’t board, non Thais have to have a test.