Thailand reports over 500 new coronavirus cases

[anchadian]

https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-thailand-number/thailand-reports-over-500-new-coronavirus-cases-idINL4N2IZ06O

 

Thailand reports over 500 new coronavirus cases

 

BANGKOK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Thai health authorities reported 516 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, by far the biggest one-day jump in a country that had previously brought the epidemic largely under control.

 

The new cases were reported in Samut Sakhon province, where an outbreak has been reported linked to a shrimp market.

 

Disease Control Department director-general Opas Karnkawinpong told a news conference the new cases were found through testing among migrant workers and there were more cases at hospitals. Most were asymptomatic, he said.

 

Edited December 19, 2020 by onthedarkside
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[ukrules]

Interesting, I'm reading about 9 or 12 new cases in most places. I wonder where he's getting this number from?

[Dmaxdan]

Can't possibly be true. We are informed nearly every day by the TV members in the know that Thailand never tests anybody....

[Lacessit]

Source of this information?

[anchadian]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Source of this information?

The original source was a tweet from a Reuters reporter.

[sammieuk1]

Must be fake news Anutin says it's all under control a few days ago ????

[GeorgeCross]

 

all over national news

 

[GeorgeCross]

more info:

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/21733/breaking-thailand-discovers-548-coronavirus-cases-in-samut-sakhon/

 

Quote

Thailand’s government said on Saturday that it had discovered 516 new coronavirus cases in the fishing town of Samut Sakhon bringing the total number of cases in the province to 548.

 

According to the government, most of those cases were found in migrant worker populations with 90 per cent of cases asymptomatic. Officials said they would still continue to conduct aggressive testing.

 

The government said in an unscheduled address to the nation on Saturday night that it had been aggressively testing migrant and Thai populations in the province after discovering a case at a fresh market in the province last week.

 

The Ministry of Public Health said that the province will now go into partial lockdown with only necessary travel allowed. The lockdown will take place from December 19 to January 3.

 

Edited December 19, 2020 by GeorgeCross

[sammieuk1]

More breaking Samut Sakhon in lockdown 1192 tested 548 positive ????

[ukrules]

It is beginning to sound a bit like what happened in Singapore earlier this year.

[ctxa]

58 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

More breaking Samut Sakhon in lockdown 1192 tested 548 positive ????

Jesus Christ.... Supposing those 1192 were people considered "at risk", that's an astonishing 45% of the people in risk infected!!! 

 

Just this morning I had read in some news that they had found around 400 people in primary risk of being infected. How did this happen?

[onthedarkside]

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[JeffersLos]

Close off the province for 3 weeks. No one in or out. With a provincial lockdown in place. 

[Guderian]

3 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

Close off the province for 3 weeks. No one in or out. With a provincial lockdown in place. 

Too late for that, the infected Thai lady already had clear symptoms a week ago, which is why she was tested. The only way to control this now is a nationwide lockdown for a fortnight so that the government can find out how bad things really are. Worry about the economic costs of such action and pay the price that Britain and other European countries are now suffering. 

 

 

[Ventenio]

We've made it this far people!!!!   I'm guessing we only need to survive another few months until we are home free.

 

MASK, common sense, wash your hands.

 

I'm visiting a big city now......i'm thinking a much, much smaller city makes more sense now.

 

it's all fun and games until billie bob coughs in your direction.  could be life changing.  

 

 

[ukrules]

I just heard from the TV news in Thai that Samut Sakhon has been 'locked down', it was one of those little bulletins in the adverts so I guess full details will emerge later.

 

From elsewhere (not allowed to link) there's a curfew and nobody is allowed out of the province, I guess we're talking about road blocks here....until January ????

Edited December 19, 2020 by ukrules

[placeholder]

20 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Too late for that, the infected Thai lady already had clear symptoms a week ago, which is why she was tested. The only way to control this now is a nationwide lockdown for a fortnight so that the government can find out how bad things really are. Worry about the economic costs of such action and pay the price that Britain and other European countries are now suffering. 

 

 

The reason Thailand doesn't need a lockdown is because the huge majority of people in urban areas at least, are wearing masks in public spaces. As epidemiologists have observed this is the equivalent, in strength of a highly vaccinated population. It keeps the R(0) factor well below 1 so transmission is mostly limited to those inside the cohort of workers.

[Maha Sarakham]

1 minute ago, placeholder said:

The reason Thailand doesn't need a lockdown is because the huge majority of people in urban areas at least, are wearing masks in public spaces.

 

Might be true when entering a venue, but the second people get inside the mask goes down around their chin and under their nose in most cases.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

Interesting, I'm reading about 9 or 12 new cases in most places. I wonder where he's getting this number from?

My guess, they probably just realised they were reading all the tests wrong previously, or that the new tests work as they did not come via 'enveloped' supplier

[cyril sneer]

We’ll know when it’s official as this thread will get locked..

[placeholder]

9 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

My guess, they probably just realised they were reading all the tests wrong previously, or that the new tests work as they did not come via 'enveloped' supplier

If they were reading the tests wrong and Covid really was prevalent, then hospitals would be overflowing with patients. Not happening.

[placeholder]

16 minutes ago, Maha Sarakham said:

 

Might be true when entering a venue, but the second people get inside the mask goes down around their chin and under their nose in most cases.

Really? Do you live in Thailand? Because your allegation is at utter variance with what I have experienced in Chiang Mai. And given the low incidence of covid, reality  doesn't really support your contention.

[Maha Sarakham]

5 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Really? Do you live in Thailand? Because your allegation is at utter variance with what I have experienced in Chiang Mai. And given the low incidence of covid, reality  doesn't really support your contention.

 

Not going to start anything here.  If you don't think this happens regularly there is no way I can convince you.  Have a great day.

[tomazbodner]

32 minutes ago, Maha Sarakham said:

 

Might be true when entering a venue, but the second people get inside the mask goes down around their chin and under their nose in most cases.

I've seen mostly foreigners doing that (in Bangkok shopping malls). Some Thais did, but few, in percentage terms. However outside, I see many walking around with masks over chin or only covering mouth... And then a bunch of westerners with no masks on at all.

[Guderian]

...and this evening the weather's turning really chilly again, so instead of sitting outside drinking their Leo's and lao kao, the Thais will be spending more time indoors. We should know by now that that's not good news. 

[Don Chance]

Immediate province wide lockdown and curfew starting tonight.

 

 

 

https://www.thairath.co.th/news/local/1997944

 

• Merchants found infected with COVID-19 on Dec 17.

• After contact tracing, there's 13 more cases found.

• Expanding search to 1192 (immigrant) workers in the market, 516 found infected with mild to none symptoms.

• 548 total confirmed case for this cluster so far.

probably several thousands pending result, which will bring more cases in a next few days.

Edited December 19, 2020 by Don Chance

[simonphuket]

13 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Really? Do you live in Thailand? Because your allegation is at utter variance with what I have experienced in Chiang Mai. And given the low incidence of covid, reality  doesn't really support your contention.

I manage a hotel here and we just had a conference with over 120 participants from all over Thailand, though mainly BKK area, with a big party, top-singers, and nobody was wearing a mask! Most of the hotel guests refuse to wear a mask here. I was in a club in town recently, it was packed with people, shoulder to shoulder and not a mask in sight. 

At the local market nearby, none of the locals wear masks nor gloves, not even in April with the lockdown we had. If lucky the mask is under the chin.

 

The colleague of my brother in law in Had Yai has been diagnosed with Covid 2 days ago. Waiting for it to appear in the news now. (Mods feel free to cut this if you wish, i cannot provide a link but have first-hand information)

[placeholder]

14 minutes ago, Maha Sarakham said:

 

Not going to start anything here.  If you don't think this happens regularly there is no way I can convince you.  Have a great day.

What I've got on my side is reality. If mask wearing were as lax as you claim, hospitals ICU's would be overflowing. Not happening.

[ctxa]

58 minutes ago, simonphuket said:

I manage a hotel here and we just had a conference with over 120 participants from all over Thailand, though mainly BKK area, with a big party, top-singers, and nobody was wearing a mask! Most of the hotel guests refuse to wear a mask here. I was in a club in town recently, it was packed with people, shoulder to shoulder and not a mask in sight. 

At the local market nearby, none of the locals wear masks nor gloves, not even in April with the lockdown we had. If lucky the mask is under the chin.

 

The colleague of my brother in law in Had Yai has been diagnosed with Covid 2 days ago. Waiting for it to appear in the news now. (Mods feel free to cut this if you wish, i cannot provide a link but have first-hand information)

 

Either you live in a Thailand from a different world,... or you are just straight-out trolling by posting things which not even you believe! 

[mommysboy]

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

It is beginning to sound a bit like what happened in Singapore earlier this year.

 

Like Wuhan more like!