Covid-19: Nine foreign arrivals test positive in quarantine

[webfact]

Nine foreign arrivals test positive in quarantine

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration announced nine new cases over a 24-hour period on Tuesday.

 

The cases, all foreigners, include an Ethiopian woman, 30; a Swiss man and woman, 50 and 57; a six-month-old boy from Britain; a 44-year-old woman from the Netherlands; a 38-year-old Dutch man who arrived from Qatar; a Romanian man, 42; an American man and woman, 60 and 52.

 

As of Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases in Thailand rose to 4,246 (1,252 in state quarantine). Of these, 237 are in hospital and 3,949 have recovered and been discharged. The death toll remains unchanged at 60.

 

According to Worldometer, the total number of confirmed cases globally has risen to 73.19 million. Of them, 51.32 million have recovered, while 20.23 million are active cases (106,517 in severe condition) and 1.62 million have died.

 

Meanwhile, Thailand ranks a safe 151st for most cases in the world, while the US tops the list with 16.94 million cases, followed by India (9.90 million), Brazil (6.92 million), Russia (2.68 million) and France (2.37 million).

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399625

 

 

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[ukrules]

Interesting, normally the number of Thais who test positive is included in this figure.

 

I'm expecting the numbers of positive tests to continue to rise as we head into January.

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

It would be useful if these reports indicated that the infected are displaying symptoms or are asymptomatic. How many are 'carriers'? A six month old baby with symptoms would be a sad sight.

[Megasin1]

It would also be helpful if they had carried on stating when they arrived in Quarantine. So a 6 month old baby, presumably spending all its time with its parents has Covid after flying on a plane, but the parents don't. This smacks of either infection in quarantine, or infection on the plane. I'm sorry but anyone who is willing to risk travelling with untested Thais, or places themselves in the supposed quarantine with more untested hotel staff is certainly placing themselves at risk....

[Enlil]

Real question is What’s the Cycle Threshold (CT) value for that test?

 

 

[ronaldo0]

Not one Thai mentioned in the list . Are they all immune now or just stopped coming ? 

[nkg]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

As of Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases in Thailand rose to 4,246 (1,252 in state quarantine). Of these, 237 are in hospital and 3,949 have recovered and been discharged. The death toll remains unchanged at 60.

 

That's 4,246 cases IN TOTAL since February.

 

[RR2020]

Nine foreign arrivals test positive in quarantine

By The Nation

 

 

Who f%^&#$% cares ??????

 

Wow, Thailand has very few Covid cases and a destroyed economy........congratulations !!!!!!!!

 

All those people saved from Covid will die in the next 2 years anyway of their existing diseases or old age or in road accidents.

 

Congratulations !!!!!!!!

[dcnx]

Way too many foreigners are testing positive in the ASQ hotels.

 

That means they are catching in IN the ASQ, which no one obviously wants to keep talking about since the French/Thai caught it in the ASQ and the whole thing was questioned. Or they are catching it on the flight, which clearly shows air travel to be unsafe. Or the pre flight tests are giving false negatives, which calls all testing into question. Or Thailand’s tests are giving multiple false positives OR they are flat out scamming people for hospitalization and treatment money.
 

Every one of those possibilities is bad news.

[RR2020]

Nobody is Asymptomatic.........and there are false positives.........thats the most likely explanation.

 

If you are in ASQ and someone tells you your PCR was positive and you are probably asymptomatic.......what can you do ??????

 

Nothing.  You are just another statistic.

 

One wonders if these positives are not false positives but FAKE positives.......keep the headline running of those dirty farangs so its easier to keep the borders shut and the tourism industry dying............ less protests.

[DavisH]

7 hours ago, RR2020 said:

Nobody is Asymptomatic.........and there are false positives.........thats the most likely explanation.

 

If you are in ASQ and someone tells you your PCR was positive and you are probably asymptomatic.......what can you do ??????

 

Nothing.  You are just another statistic.

 

One wonders if these positives are not false positives but FAKE positives.......keep the headline running of those dirty farangs so its easier to keep the borders shut and the tourism industry dying............ less protests.

Why the asinisn comment? It sounds like you don't even care anyway. Yes everything is fake in Thailand - spinning that tired old barstool line. Tests are done multiple times, so its highly unlikely to keep gettign false positives. 

[Mr Meeseeks]

11 hours ago, RR2020 said:

Nine foreign arrivals test positive in quarantine

By The Nation

 

 

Who f%^&#$% cares ??????

 

Wow, Thailand has very few Covid cases and a destroyed economy........congratulations !!!!!!!!

 

All those people saved from Covid will die in the next 2 years anyway of their existing diseases or old age or in road accidents.

 

Congratulations !!!!!!!!

Yet the UK and US are facing destroyed economies as well as having tens of thousands die from the virus and associated complications. 

 

Thailand has done exceptionally well in controlling this outbreak, and the impact on its economy will not be as significant as in the West. 

[Mr Meeseeks]

10 hours ago, dcnx said:

Way too many foreigners are testing positive in the ASQ hotels.

 

That means they are catching in IN the ASQ, which no one obviously wants to keep talking about since the French/Thai caught it in the ASQ and the whole thing was questioned. Or they are catching it on the flight, which clearly shows air travel to be unsafe. Or the pre flight tests are giving false negatives, which calls all testing into question. Or Thailand’s tests are giving multiple false positives OR they are flat out scamming people for hospitalization and treatment money.
 

Every one of those possibilities is bad news.

You couldn't discount any of that from happening.

 

First thing that should happen is airlines should insist on a COVID-19 free cert before being allowed to travel for everybody. No exceptions. 

[mtls2005]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

1,252 in state quarantine

 

Has been represented in the press recently (within the last 10 days) as ~ 350, ~ 650 and ~ 700.

 

With 173,000 arrivals (figure published yesterday), that's 0.72% positive infection rate,.

 

Nine is a pretty decent figure given that they were running in the twenties recently. Hard to judge though, without the overall arrival figures, and the day (0, 5, 13) of the tests.