Four new Covid-19 cases confirmed

[webfact]

 

Four new Covid-19 cases confirmed

By THE NATION

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration reported four new cases over a 24-hour period on Friday (September 4).

 

Of the new patients, one is the first domestic case in over 100 days, while other three were returnees from the US, Singapore and Saudi Arabia in state quarantine.

 

As of Friday, total patients were 3,431 since the outbreak, of whom 3,277 have recovered while 96 patients are in hospitals. The death toll remains at 58.

 

Globally, as of 9am on Friday, the number of confirmed cases since the outbreak has passed 26.4 million. Of these, 18.6 million have recovered, 60,749 are in severe condition and 873,108 have died

 

Thailand ranks 121st for most cases in the world. The US has the highest number of infections with 6.33 million, followed by Brazil (4.04 million), India (3.93 million), Russia (1 million) and Peru (670,145).

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30394010

 

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[Mavideol]

only 1 domestic case because they only tested him, what about not quarantine the other inmates and instead test them, are they afraid they may find more "domestic" cases

[Sheryl]

1 hour ago, Mavideol said:

only 1 domestic case because they only tested him, what about not quarantine the other inmates and instead test them, are they afraid they may find more "domestic" cases

 

He was newly arrived at the prison and still in the 14 day quarantine all new inmates undergo so had not mingled with the general prison population (fortunately).

 

They are trying to trace and test his contacts prior to arrival at the prison

[ThailandRyan]

Standing by to see how this develops, and if things go south again.  In my view, it was only a matter of time before one tested positive and was determined to be a domestic case.  Not sure why they never included the folks from Myanmar and Malaysia, who snuck into the country, but then after being found were placed in quarantine and then we never heard one peep of whether they were tested, before being deported, only hearing that a returnee to Myanmar was found to be positive and then the story died again.  Gotta love the hijinks here, and the wordsmith PR folks for the Government.

[riclag]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

three were returnees from the US, Singapore and Saudi Arabia in state quarantine.

Does anybody know what precautions have been taken to protect people that these individuals come in contact with 

while on  flights to Thailand and on the ground in THailand

[DrTuner]

Must've been a virgin birth of an local infection. Or maybe it dropped from an overflying aeroplane with a dirty farang in it. 

[yeahbutif]

Seems strange all new case's are mainly from returnees? Thought they had to have fit to fly certificate.ect. 

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Of the new patients, one is the first domestic case in over 100 days

So, clear evidence that it is in Thailand but not being tested for.

 

I feel a redaction of this story coming tomorrow 

[Dap]

16 minutes ago, yeahbutif said:

Seems strange all new case's are mainly from returnees? Thought they had to have fit to fly certificate.ect. 

[Aussieroaming]

14 minutes ago, yeahbutif said:

Seems strange all new case's are mainly from returnees? Thought they had to have fit to fly certificate.ect. 

Foreigners need to pass a covid test and fit to fly. Thais only need fit to fly and the fit to fly can be done over the phone and is dependent on the patient being honest about any symptoms and also depends on whether the person is already asymptomatic or otherwise.

 

Most returnees with positive tests during quarantine are Thai returnees, who didn't need that convid test and showed no symptoms at the fit to fly "vitual" medical and therefore passed their fit to fly. However some are also foreigners who somehow catch it after their initial test or had a false negative result initially.

[Tropicalevo]

2 hours ago, yeahbutif said:

Seems strange all new case's are mainly from returnees? Thought they had to have fit to fly certificate.ect. 

Some are becoming infected in quarantine!

[ukrules]

The Thais are not tested, this suggests to me that they caught it either on the plane or prior to boarding.

 

The one common denominator being the flights with plenty of untested Thais on them.

 

I wonder if the Thais who test positive during quarantine also trace back to the same flights where the certified COVID free foreigners become infected?

 

They will know this information for sure, if it proved there was no connection then we would have heard about it, in fact I think we did hear something about this a while back - but nothing recently, perhaps that signals a change in detection and tracking which they're not too eager to talk about.

 

[Jumbo1968]

It will be announced that the Test Kit was faulty re the prisoner ?

 

[Enoon]

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

 

He was newly arrived at the prison and still in the 14 day quarantine all new inmates undergo so had not mingled with the general prison population (fortunately).

 

They are trying to trace and test his contacts prior to arrival at the prison

 

He's a DJ, that shouldn't be too difficult, no doubt his few contacts (and their few contacts, and their....etc) will be eager to assist the Thai State that they love so much:

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 4, 2020 by Enoon

[Scot123]

2 hours ago, Aussieroaming said:

Foreigners need to pass a covid test and fit to fly. Thais only need fit to fly and the fit to fly can be done over the phone and is dependent on the patient being honest about any symptoms and also depends on whether the person is already asymptomatic or otherwise.

 

Most returnees with positive tests during quarantine are Thai returnees, who didn't need that convid test and showed no symptoms at the fit to fly "vitual" medical and therefore passed their fit to fly. However some are also foreigners who somehow catch it after their initial test or had a false negative result initially.

Think your wrong on that one. Do you not think it is strange that these positive C19 tests are never when they arrive but always seem to be 14 days or more after arrival. I suspect they are catching C19 while in quarantine as Thailand has just the same C19 causes as all of its neighbouring countries have?

[bkk6060]

16 minutes ago, Scot123 said:

Do you not think it is strange that these positive C19 tests are never when they arrive but always seem to be 14 days or more after arrival. I suspect they are catching C19 while in quarantine

Your comment seems false.

After 14 days they are released.

From my reading the past few months the positive tests documented and posted have been while they are still in quarantine and have been tested at some point before or during quarantine.  

Edited September 4, 2020 by bkk6060

[Sheryl]

1 hour ago, Scot123 said:

Think your wrong on that one. Do you not think it is strange that these positive C19 tests are never when they arrive but always seem to be 14 days or more after arrival. I suspect they are catching C19 while in quarantine as Thailand has just the same C19 causes as all of its neighbouring countries have?

 

Rather hard to catch it in quarantine given that the nature of quarantine is isolation from everyone else.

 

Catching it on the flight is possible.

 

Thais are indeed not tested before return. And there are cases who are positive on the first test; there are even cases that are symptomatic on arrival and taken straight to hospital.

[JCP108]

1 hour ago, Sheryl said:

 

Rather hard to catch it in quarantine given that the nature of quarantine is isolation from everyone else.

 

 

Do the people in quarantine have contact with airport, hotel, or government staff? Or are they transported from the plane to the facility in some kind of bubble and then left alone for the 14 days? If they contact other people, maybe they are catching it from them? Wouldn't know the actual risk of that without a widespread testing program...although there was that one study that found that 20% of 100k people tested in Thailand were positive for antibodies suggesting pretty widespread infections.

[Darkside Gray]

Strange that all these recurrences of the virus happen after 100 days, Vietnam, NZ and Thailand,

[Aussieroaming]

15 hours ago, Scot123 said:

Think your wrong on that one. Do you not think it is strange that these positive C19 tests are never when they arrive but always seem to be 14 days or more after arrival. I suspect they are catching C19 while in quarantine as Thailand has just the same C19 causes as all of its neighbouring countries have?

Wrong on what one, be specific. 

 

[FlyingThai]

20 hours ago, Mavideol said:

only 1 domestic case because they only tested him, what about not quarantine the other inmates and instead test them, are they afraid they may find more "domestic" cases

Are you saying the only tested this ONE guy randomly? Please...

[Thomas J]

Good grief.  If the media reported HIV, Malaria, or TB cases the way they do Covid no one would ever go out of their house.  EVEN PEOPLE OVER 85 HAVE A 95% CHANCE OF RECOVERY IF THEY DON'T HAVE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHER LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES.