100 Days without Local COVID Infection in Thailand

[snoop1130]

100 Days without Local COVID Infection in Thailand

 

 

NONTHABURI, Sept 2 (TNA) – Deputy Prime Minister/Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul launched a convention fair to stimulate the economy as the country has been free of local infection of the coronavirus disease 2019 for 100 days.

 

During his opening speech, Mr Anutin said the country had been free of local COVID-19 infection for 100 days and the government was implementing measures to control the disease, stimulate the economy, help people generate income and ensure public safety at the same time.

 

He said the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau and the Ministry of Public Health developed a system to guarantee hygiene meetings and seminars.

 

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-- © Copyright TNA 2020-09-02

 

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[webfact]

Thailand Marks 100 Days Without Any Local Virus Cases

By Randy Thanthong-Knight

 

== Pressure growing to re-open borders to save tourism sector

== Thailand was first to see a case outside of China in January

 

Commuters have their temperatures checked at a BTS station in Bangkok on Sept. 2. Photograph: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg

 

Thailand has reported zero locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases for 100 days in a row, joining a small group of places like Taiwan where the pathogen has been virtually eliminated.

 

The Southeast Asian country hasn’t recorded any community transmission since May 26, data from the Health Ministry on Wednesday showed. Authorities are still finding infections among travelers arriving at the tourist hotspot’s borders, but these people are quarantined and only allowed into the community after they’re recovered.

 

Like Taiwan and New Zealand, another country that made it past 100 days before local infections re-emerged, Thailand’s success has relied on strictly-policed borders that have been closed to foreigners for months. The strategy has come at great cost to Thailand, with its iconic beaches and cultural sites making it one of the most tourism-reliant economies in the world.

 

Full story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-02/thailand-marks-100-days-without-any-local-virus-cases

 

-- © Copyright Bloomberg 2020-09-03

 

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[meechai]

Please instead of your incredible claims of xxx days without domestic cases of COVID

in spite of many testing positive surprisingly 12 days after having passed covid tests both pre & post flights

but in quarantine for more than a week says a few things....

1) Untested Thai's on return flights are infecting others ...or even more likely....

2) Thai's working at AQH or transports etc are also infected

 

Not to mention the dozens of Cambodians/Burmese etc who came up positive after leaving Thailand

 

So please hand over some unbiased proof

 

Let the WHO send a handful of reps into Thailand & let them randomly test a few Thai's in a few provinces

Then publish your "claims"

[lujanit]

Anything ai Auntin says is total bs. The figures are total bs. Just what China puts out.  <deleted>, garbage left on side of the road.

[sammieuk1]

Look at the dazzling white suit of my purity no dirty farangs getting in my back door????

 

[crickets]

at 6000 baht a test no wonder 

[Phuketshrew]

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Look at the dazzling white suit of my purity no dirty farangs getting in my back door

I didn't know that he came from the other side of the Changwat ....

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand has reported zero locally-transmitted Covid-19 cases for 100 days in a row, joining a small group of places like Taiwan where the pathogen has been virtually eliminated.

Of course they can maintain that all important statistic of no domestic infections... no testing is the answer.

Look at those leaky borders coming in from Myanmar, schools closing, locals mixing with illegals... but not a single infection...

Miraculous !

[RotBenz8888]

Thailand probably had their spike during early spring, since it would've been impossible to escape covid due to the proximity of Wuhan. Now,  after 6-9 months, there are probably many asymptomatic cases, but very few tests so it seems like there are none.

 

Or, have their draconian rules, masks and social distance helped them dodge covid? I seriously doubt that the masks have made any difference, when I see what kind of mask they're wearing here and how they are used. And watch the MRT/BTS, busses, restaurants etc- no social distance. And the land boarders, highly unlikely that they have been completely sealed.

 

Do the Thais have a better developed immune system, perhaps due to previous similar virus infections in the past? Or something genetic makes them more resistant? If so, have Thais in Europe,USA etc, managed to escaped covid? Plenty of cases among returnees, but have they been seriously ill or only tested positive? 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lacessit]

September 1, midnight procession of 1000 monks in Chiang Rai. Might have been 50,000 Thais lining up to give gifts. About 30% not wearing masks.

Social distancing, Thai-style. Anutin is kidding himself.

[4MyEgo]

[vandeventer]

If it is so good how about opening the borders two ways so we can all

fell human again.

[RR2020]

Countries in the world with loads of cases, carrying on with normal life now, economies rebounding - deaths minimal now.

 

Countries in the world with no cases, economic suicide - deaths minimal now.

 

Nearly all cases are asymptomatic now.............

 

It has ended up now less deadly than flu, and at current rates of cases increase and death decrease it will be statistically less deadly than flu soon enough.

 

 

Yep, well done on causing mass bankruptcy in the pursuit of zero cases - when in the real world nobody cares anymore.  Even the media are turning against lockdown...........

 

Thailand can be awarded the zero case badge of honour, along with the economic suicide badge of honour.........Well done !!!

 

 

[TERMINATOR3AB]

Really   it is  just a miracle Thailand  is not getting huge infection  rates

Most  area  are  dirty  garbage  smell  all over  cities  when out of  sight   of  city  proper 

No  social  distancing at all  hardly 

I think a lot is being hidden  from  public

However if it is climate  that is helping  only  a  matter  of time until the virus  adapts  to  Thai  climate  

then  the  poo   will hit the  fan  well and truely  like it has in most of the  world 

A vacine is really  our only hope  

But Thailand  hopes are  thin cos  Free  vacine  in  Thailand  you are joking   mate 

even charge for  tests  more than the poor  can  pay 

Good Luck Thailand 

 

 

[AlQaholic]

5 hours ago, meechai said:

Please instead of your incredible claims of xxx days without domestic cases of COVID

in spite of many testing positive surprisingly 12 days after having passed covid tests both pre & post flights

but in quarantine for more than a week says a few things....

1) Untested Thai's on return flights are infecting others ...or even more likely....

2) Thai's working at AQH or transports etc are also infected

 

Not to mention the dozens of Cambodians/Burmese etc who came up positive after leaving Thailand

 

So please hand over some unbiased proof

 

Let the WHO send a handful of reps into Thailand & let them randomly test a few Thai's in a few provinces

Then publish your "claims"

Stop this rubbish fear mongering. Where I live, I have checked two main hospitals several times that are usually filled to the brim with everyday illness cases, they are both completely empty nowadays, people don't want to risk getting infected by visiting a hospital. When you enter the gates of any hospital, you are met with a horde of nurses and guards in full personal protective gear, checking your temp before you enter the area. At work we check temp everyday, we have different zones of employees where no physical contact is allowed between zones. All meetings are done by zoom, skype or google meet. Every business in Thailand is doing the same. Nobody at my work place has been infected and we are talking about 4,000 plus people, In the wider industrial park that I work in, there has been no cases at all. Every shop you enter you have to register, use a face mask and check temp. Simply put, Thailand has been damn lucky and be happy about that.

Edited September 3, 2020 by AlQaholic

[meechai]

1 hour ago, AlQaholic said:

 Where I live, I have checked two main hospitals several times that are usually filled to the brim with everyday illness cases, they are both completely empty nowadays, people don't want to risk getting infected by visiting a hospital. ...<snipped to save space>

Simply put, Thailand has been damn lucky and be happy about that.

Well you have half answered your own question (underlined above) but also if you had checked the provinces back in Nov.Dec2019 & Jan 2020 you would have found many super pneumonia cases

 

As for Thailand being "lucky" yeah that is one way of putting it yet if so then

let a unbiased testing be done....

 

Never happen & it is why Thailand is not even on UK safe list or perhaps examples of

cases like all 23 Burmese turn up at border crossing leaving Thailand infected....

Guess they were not "damn Lucky"

 

There are many other instances all chalked up to "they caught it elsewhere"

Even when they tested negative "elsewhere" & were in Thailand 12 days before going positive

 

Btw: Of the 4000 coworkers that you claim "none have been infected" how many were Covid tested? Not temp tested but COVID tested...how many?

10%? 20? 30%?? None because they had no symptoms or high temperature? Probably the latter so look up "asymptomatic"

 

In any case glad your healthy & happy but if you think in a country like Thailand of 70 million people no domestic covid cases exist

as TPTB like to claim... well then I guess your a Thai citizen because no thinking foreigner I know would be so gullible

 

 

 

Edited September 3, 2020 by meechai

[Expat Tom]

Is there any independent proof that Thailand is virus free for 100 days? Of course not. I would wager that the vassal state of Thailand has learned much from their big brothers in China regarding dis-information.  

[Bender Rodriguez]

7 hours ago, meechai said:

1) Untested Thai's on return flights are infecting others ...or even more likely....

2) Thai's working at AQH or transports etc are also infected

 

Not to mention the dozens of Cambodians/Burmese etc who came up positive after leaving Thailand

you forgot

 

FALSE POSITIVE

[Clarkey611]

7 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Look at the dazzling white suit of my purity no dirty farangs getting in my back door????

 

I would not like to go anywhere near his back door.

[paulikens]

whats that i can smell?

[Scot123]

5 hours ago, AlQaholic said:

Stop this rubbish fear mongering. Where I live, I have checked two main hospitals several times that are usually filled to the brim with everyday illness cases, they are both completely empty nowadays, people don't want to risk getting infected by visiting a hospital. When you enter the gates of any hospital, you are met with a horde of nurses and guards in full personal protective gear, checking your temp before you enter the area. At work we check temp everyday, we have different zones of employees where no physical contact is allowed between zones. All meetings are done by zoom, skype or google meet. Every business in Thailand is doing the same. Nobody at my work place has been infected and we are talking about 4,000 plus people, In the wider industrial park that I work in, there has been no cases at all. Every shop you enter you have to register, use a face mask and check temp. Simply put, Thailand has been damn lucky and be happy about that.

Cloud cuckoo land. The fact is C19 has a very low death rate and there has coincidentally been a spike in flu deaths in Thailand. Very high non systematic as it is so mild in the young and fit. I'm sorry but anyone who thinks there is no C19 in Thailand is deluding themselves and so scared because of the fake hype the media are putting out as well as government's. It is so bizarre that Thailand can solve the transmission of a highly contagious virus but cant reduce the road deaths and carnage?

[colinneil]

5 hours ago, AlQaholic said:

Stop this rubbish fear mongering. Where I live, I have checked two main hospitals several times that are usually filled to the brim with everyday illness cases, they are both completely empty nowadays, people don't want to risk getting infected by visiting a hospital. When you enter the gates of any hospital, you are met with a horde of nurses and guards in full personal protective gear, checking your temp before you enter the area. At work we check temp everyday, we have different zones of employees where no physical contact is allowed between zones. All meetings are done by zoom, skype or google meet. Every business in Thailand is doing the same. Nobody at my work place has been infected and we are talking about 4,000 plus people, In the wider industrial park that I work in, there has been no cases at all. Every shop you enter you have to register, use a face mask and check temp. Simply put, Thailand has been damn lucky and be happy about that.

Why would you be checking main hospitals?

First off they would not allow you to be wandering around checking things.

Second none of your damn business.

I think you are just making things up, not actual facts.

[bkk6060]

Greatest country in the world.

Go Thailand!

[Bantex]

“100 Days without Local COVID Infection in Thailand”

What a load of <deleted>. My daughter was in an ICU in a Bangkok hospital last month along with her great aunt. Both where diagnosed as having Coronavirus as were others in the unit. My daughter has fully recovered but her great aunt died of the virus, neither has ever been out of Thailand. One rural town has reports of approx 200 new cases of the virus.

[teacherclaire]

9 hours ago, AlQaholic said:

Stop this rubbish fear mongering. Where I live, I have checked two main hospitals several times that are usually filled to the brim with everyday illness cases, they are both completely empty nowadays, people don't want to risk getting infected by visiting a hospital. When you enter the gates of any hospital, you are met with a horde of nurses and guards in full personal protective gear, checking your temp before you enter the area. At work we check temp everyday, we have different zones of employees where no physical contact is allowed between zones. All meetings are done by zoom, skype or google meet. Every business in Thailand is doing the same. Nobody at my work place has been infected and we are talking about 4,000 plus people, In the wider industrial park that I work in, there has been no cases at all. Every shop you enter you have to register, use a face mask and check temp. Simply put, Thailand has been damn lucky and be happy about that.

Fact and opinion.

I agree with you. At our school, all kids and teachers have their daily temperature checks, and even when the plastic shields at the desks are gone, we're all still on alert and do all to protect the kids and us. 

 

What rubbish is that to send WHO guys to Thailand to check random people? 

 

I don't think it's a great idea to make some things up. 

 

 

 

[teacherclaire]

1 hour ago, Bantex said:

“100 Days without Local COVID Infection in Thailand”

What a load of <deleted>. My daughter was in an ICU in a Bangkok hospital last month along with her great aunt. Both where diagnosed as having Coronavirus as were others in the unit. My daughter has fully recovered but her great aunt died of the virus, neither has ever been out of Thailand. One rural town has reports of approx 200 new cases of the virus.

Sorry to hear that. Would you mind to share the area where the disease infected 200 people, please?

 

I have not yet met anybody who had the virus. 

[AlQaholic]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

Why would you be checking main hospitals?

First off they would not allow you to be wandering around checking things.

Second none of your damn business.

I think you are just making things up, not actual facts.

Good question, I was checking two main hospitals where I often take my daughter when she gets sick. I have free access to the waiting area. Normally this area is full of patients any day of the week. I went there because I was expecting it to be full with COVID-19 patients, to verify my suspicion that the Thai govt. was not exactly forthcoming with the actual data. Instead I found the areas in both hospitals almost empty, at least in February and March, Now they have come back to their usual "full to the brim" situation, but no COVID-19 cases as far as I can tell.

Secondly, as someone asked, "how many asymptomatic cases are there at my work", well if there were asymptomatic spreaders since February until now in September, they would certainly have infected at least some vulnerable people that should have ended up in hospital and some of those should certainly have died by now, if we compare the well documented way how it spreads in the US. Not happening here.

My Daughter have been back to school for 2 months now and my Son is finishing vocational college, none of their teachers have died or gotten sick.

Edited September 3, 2020 by AlQaholic

[teacherclaire]

1 minute ago, AlQaholic said:

Good question, I was checking two main hospitals where I often take my daughter when she gets sick. I have free access to the waiting area. Normally this area is full of patients any day of the week. I went there because I was expecting it to be full with COVID-19 patients, to verify my suspicion that the Thai govt. was not exactly forthcoming with the actual data. Instead I found the areas in both hospitals almost empty, at least in February and March, Now they have come back to their usual "full to the brim" situation, but no COVID-19 cases as far as I can tell.

Secondly, as someone asked, "how many asymptomatic cases are there at my work", well if there were asymptomatic spreaders since February until now in September, they would certainly have infected at least some vulnerable people that should have ended up in hospital and some of those should certainly have died by now, if we compare the well documented way how it spreads in the US. Not happening here.

Be careful. That leaves enough space for any conspiracy theories, countless infected people in isolated camps with 380 volts electric fences, no phones allowed, no internet access ( blocked with high tech BMW's) that people can't post the actual situation.

 

  

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On 9/2/2020 at 5:52 PM, snoop1130 said:

100 Days without Local COVID Infection in Thailand

And not see day 101! Coz had one now! Confirm that inmate have covid! Hmmm.... drop from sky!? Coz nobody in Thailand have it!

[AlQaholic]

24 minutes ago, teacherclaire said:

What rubbish is that to send WHO guys to Thailand to check random people? 

I don't object to that at all, I think Thailand would welcome it, but do the who peeps think there is a need to do it?