27 returnees, one hospital personnel test positive for Covid-19

[webfact]

27 returnees, one hospital personnel test positive for Covid-19

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration reported 27 new cases in quarantine facilities and a local transmission in Bangkok over a 24-hour period on Monday.

 

Most of the cases are travellers, both Thai and foreign, from overseas who are completing their mandatory quarantine in Bangkok, Samut Prakan and Chonburi.

 

The cases include a British man, 36, and two women, 44, who travelled from the UK; two Thai men, 55 and 56, who came from France; a Thai woman, 37, travelling from Pakistan; a Thai man, 43, from Azerbaijan; a Thai woman, 39, from Germany; two Thai men, 23 and 27, and four women, 33, 34, 36, and 37, travelling from Myanmar; a Thai woman, 53, from Ukraine; Thai man, 24, and woman, 40, from Poland (a re-active case after testing positive on October 17); seven Thai women, 23, 24, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 42 from Bahrain; an Indonesian man, 31; Swiss man, 43; and a Georgian man, 51, (a re-active case after testing positive in October) arriving from their respective countries.

 

Meanwhile, a female health worker in Bangkok, 27, tested positive after developing a sore throat during quarantine in hospital. She had shared a room with personnel from a private hospital who had tested positive. Her first test on December 8 came out negative, but then she tested positive on December 12.

 

Meanwhile, 17 patients have recovered and been discharged.

 

The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand has risen to 4,237 (1,243 in state quarantine), 237 of whom are in hospital and 3,940 have recovered and been discharged. The death toll remains unchanged at 60.

 

According to Worldometer, as of 10am, the total number of confirmed cases globally has risen to 72.64 million (up by 539,289). Of them, 50.86 million have recovered, while 20.16 million are active cases (106,189 in severe condition) and 1.61 million have died (up by 7,650).

 

Thailand ranks 151st for most cases in the world, while the US tops the list with 16.73 million, followed by India 9.88 million, Brazil 6.9 million, Russia 2.65 million and France 2.37 million.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399564

 

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[4MyEgo]

About 2.2%....hmmm

Edited December 14, 2020 by 4MyEgo

[PatOngo]

Second wave??? What second wave, Mr Anutin???

[JimGant]

Just now, webfact said:

Most of the cases are travellers, both Thai and foreign, from overseas who are completing their mandatory quarantine

So, all cases had a negative covid test before boarding the airplane -- but a couple were false negatives -- thus were spreaders? And this is how 27 returnees ended up positive? Am I missing something here?

[Sheryl]

45 minutes ago, JimGant said:

So, all cases had a negative covid test before boarding the airplane -- but a couple were false negatives -- thus were spreaders? And this is how 27 returnees ended up positive? Am I missing something here?

Thais do not have to get a COVID test before returning in repatriation flight. For most, test done while in quarantine will be their first test.

 

In addition it is quite common for people to test negative early in he infection.

 

 

[Spatiumus]

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

About 2.2%....hmmm

Alternatively, a 97.8% recovery rate.  I like those odds.

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Second wave??? What second wave, Mr Anutin???

Soon... soon...

[Guderian]

And absolutely no new cases have been found outside of quarantine then, cross-your-heart and hope-to-die?

[ronaldo0]

That’s a lot of women from Bahrain. Was there not a f1 race there last weekend or this ? I wonder what their job is or were they just watching the race ? ????

[Mr Meeseeks]

2 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Thais do not have to get a COVID test before returning in repatriation flight. For most, test done while in quarantine will be their first test.

 

In addition it is quite common for people to test negative early in he infection.

 

 

I think you need to pin that in bold at the top of every one of these update threads!

[dcnx]

16 hours ago, Spatiumus said:

Alternatively, a 97.8% recovery rate.  I like those odds.

Recovered doesn’t necessarily mean better. Many people are suffering from long term effects. 

[dcnx]

16 hours ago, Guderian said:

And absolutely no new cases have been found outside of quarantine then, cross-your-heart and hope-to-die?

Have you seen the testing numbers? Embarrassingly low. Yet, somehow, someway, rogue single cases are being found as if the Buddha himself manifested the virus into a person.

 

Amazing Thailand.

[Spatiumus]

5 hours ago, dcnx said:

Recovered doesn’t necessarily mean better. Many people are suffering from long term effects. 

How many?  

Edited December 15, 2020 by Spatiumus