Thailand reports 382 new COVID-19 cases

[lovethai123]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Two weeks ago the Talichek incident with the IG8 hotel/casino and many Thai ladies of the night entering back into Thailand from Myanmar into Chiang Rai illegally crossed back many positive for Covid.

Were the ladies sent to IDC?  Illegal crossing are also a crime. even if u r a citizen .  or may be thai laws were made only to harass /threaten/extort    foreigners. 

 

I have heard/read how foreigners are threatened with IDC bangkok when they overstay by a day. 

[Jeffr2]

9 minutes ago, lovethai123 said:

 

 

i dont understand.,  what casino workers? what girls? what had happened?  any TV links please???

Ummm...the girls from the casino across the border in Burma?  Did you not hear about this?  Worked in the karaoke bar in the casino.

[lovethai123]

6 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

A bar girl is your source for info?  Seriously?  Come on....

so u r proposing that a bar girl is a sub human?

 

well i thought all people are born equal. but now i feel that bar girls are subhuman as per powerful thais

 

 

and its the same bar girl(ex) who is now selling sweets in pattaya becaue i motivated her to make an honest living and dont lease your soul and body for cash. 

 

 her parents now suffer from covid(probably). they visited samut sakhon recently and now in some hospital in north thailand , all they have is high fever.. covid hasnt been confirmed yet by the authorities. 

Edited December 21, 2020 by lovethai123

[lovethai123]

1 minute ago, Jeffr2 said:

Ummm...the girls from the casino across the border in Burma?  Did you not hear about this?  Worked in the karaoke bar in the casino.

No sir  i did not

[Percy P]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Ouch, it just keeps expanding like Santa's Christmas Suit.

No need for comments such as yours. It's a serious matter.

[Jeffr2]

3 minutes ago, lovethai123 said:

No sir  i did not

 

As for bar girls, nothing against them.  I'm not a bar guy.  Not my thing.  But I wouldn't expect credible information regarding matters like this from them.  Humorous?  For sure! ????

[lovethai123]

1 minute ago, Percy P said:

No need for comments such as yours. It's a serious matter.

no its not. by next week no new cases,,only a rise of many viral pneumonia.. thail;and wud be covid free before new yers eve. 

 

trust prayut and his boys 

[transam]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Oops ! the worldometer chart looks a bit depressing now. 

 

 

Yes, and all those here spouting how wonderful Sweden was, where are they now......????

[lovethai123]

 

3 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

 

As for bar girls, nothing against them.  I'm not a bar guy.  Not my thing.  But I wouldn't expect credible information regarding matters like this from them.  Humorous?  For sure! ????

the girl on whose words i shared info on TV is credible, she worked in a bank to begin with, started working in a bar to pay family's debt. i helped her start a small food shop and make an honest living..

 

another one is a teacher in bangkok and part time hooker. ????????

 

thanks for sharing the TV link about ig1-7 hotel

 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by lovethai123

[anchadian]

Yes, we do get a lot of 'comedians' on here.  Those we can do without.

 

As a poster mentioned earlier, ' this is a serious matter'.

 

Some of you should grow up.

Edited December 21, 2020 by anchadian

[Archie Baker]

Migrants are they legal  or illegal?  Thought we had closed the borders.  Or is this needed cheap labour nudge nudge wink wink.  Hope they are paying minimum wages and social insurance?

[CraigInBangkok]

13 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Yes, we do get a lot of 'comedians' on here.  Those we can do without.

 

As a poster mentioned earlier, ' this is a serious matter'.

 

Some of you should grow up.

sorry Dad

[lovethai123]

16 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Yes, we do get a lot of 'comedians' on here.  Those we can do without.

 

As a poster mentioned earlier, ' this is a serious matter'.

 

Some of you should grow up.

prayut and his boys will handle it. dont worry. u r in best country in the world.. 

[timendres]

13 minutes ago, Archie Baker said:

Migrants are they legal  or illegal?  Thought we had closed the borders.  Or is this needed cheap labour nudge nudge wink wink.  Hope they are paying minimum wages and social insurance?

 

The government performs the posh dog and pony show of quarantining tourists, in a vain attempt to protect their dream of rebooting the tourism cash cow, while the cheap labor machinery continues to import thousands of workers without so much as a temperature check. Minimum wage? Social insurance? Well, that simply defeats the purpose now doesn't it?

[JomtienExile]

1 hour ago, than said:

In order to prevent the arrival of a more virulent strain of the virus, the Thai authorities should also follow the example of the countries of the European Union and prohibit the access of the kingdom to the English citizen

Are there in fact any flights allowed from the UK at present? If so they should be stopped at once.

[webfact]

382 new Covid-19 cases found, most of them linked to Samut Sakhon outbreak

By The Nation

 

 

There were 382 new Covid-19 cases following active testing of migrant workers in Samut Sakhon province, and in quarantine facilities, over a 24-hour period, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Monday.

 

Most of the cases (360) were migrant workers in Samut Sakhon, there were 14 domestic cases in Ayutthaya, Nakhon Pathom, Samut Prakan, Bangkok and Tak provinces, while seven Thais and a foreigner tested positive in quarantine.

 

The new cases in quarantine facilities included one Thai, who had returned from the United Kingdom, three from the United States, one from United Arab Emirates, one from Ukraine, one from Kuwait, and a Sudanedese woman had travelled from her country.

 

Most of the domestic cases reported on Monday were linked to the Samut Sakhon outbreak in a shrimp market, except an asymptomatic beautician, 29, in Ayutthaya and a Myanmar cashier, 42, in Mae Sot district of Tak province.

 

Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, the spokesperson for the CCSA, revealed that more than 2,600 people were awaiting results of their tests and many more were waiting to be tested. A field hospital will be opened in Samut Sakhon with 100 beds for patients with severe symptoms to facilitate and treat workers, including providing food and necessities. The idea was inspired by Singapore which faced rising number of cases involving migrant workers.

 

A health officer reportedly said more than a thousand customers of the seafood markets in Samut Sakhon were to be tested.

 

He also asked for cooperation from Myanmar to tell their people to take a virus test for free and remain confined in specific areas to stop the spread of the virus.

 

Meanwhile, 12 patients have recovered and been discharged.

 

The total number of confirmed cases in Thailand increased to 5,289 (1,373 in state quarantine), 1,176 are undergoing treatment in hospitals, 4,053 have recovered and been discharged and 60 have died.

 

According to Worldometer, as of 10am on Monday, the total number of confirmed cases had increased to 77.14 million (up by 532,471), 55 million have recovered, 21.38 million are active cases (106,202 in severe condition) and 1.7 million have died (up by 7,832).

 

Thailand ranks 150th for most cases in the world, while the US has the most number with 18.26 million, followed by India 10.05 million, Brazil 7.24 million, Russia 2.85 million and France 2.47 million.

 

Dr Taweesin said that a meeting between officers from the Public Health Ministry and the prime minister on Monday morning discussed new criteria for ordering of lockdowns for provincial governors to use when required.

 

Dr Vicharn Pawan, a specialist at the Disease Control Department, reported at the CCSA daily conference on the latest situation in Samut Sakhon where the Central Shrimp Market and nearby areas have emerged as the source of the outbreak.

 

So far 821 positive cases have been found with links to Samut Sakhon. In other provinces, there are three cases in Samut Prakan, three in Saraburi, two in Bangkok and two in Nakhon Pathom (2).

 

Of the total, 788 active cases have been found in the Myanmar community and nearby areas. The operation has tested 4,688 people both Thais and foreigners and results have been available of 1,861.

 

There were 33 more cases of patients who had travelled to the market and had close contact with recently reported cases. This group went to hospitals on their own to be tested.

 

He urged people who had visited the Central Shrimp Market or risk areas in Samut Sakhon since December 1 to take a test for free or call DDC 1422 for advice.

 

He urged people to stay vigilant and not panic due to the high numbers. He said Thailand's health response systems are doing their jobs well.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399943

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-12-21

 

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[brommers]

This is an indictment of a lax enforcement of inward travel restrictions or even complicity by the authorities in enabling these hundreds of virus carriers' entry to Thailand. And will engine be investigated, nah. Will anyone be held to account, nah. Because this incompetent excuse for a government is more interested in riding trains, or participating in other time wasting activities than in actually running the country. And once again it is ordinary people to who pay the price of such neglect.

[Sheryl]

There is no known connection between the outbreak in the Samut Sakorn seafood market (which has led to infections elsewhere as people travel to and from that market from other parts of the country) and the much smaller cluster of cases linked to returnees from casinos in the far north. And no reason to expect there to be.

 

What both likely have in common is origin from people illegally entering from Myanmar. But different people entering at different places on that very long border. And probably at different times as from the numbers positive the virus likely arrived in Samut Sakhon earlier than the casino worker incident.

 

You don't sneak across in the border in the far north  to work in Samut Sakhon, makes no sense when there are plenty of closer places to cross.

 

 

 

 

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, Phulublub said:

It is not the Thai education that is lacking, but your own. 

 

See the start of the sentence?  "Of the new cases...".

 

So they have identified the origin of 368 of the newly discovered infections, while a further 14 are yet to be determined.

 

But don't let your smugness get in the way of your unnecessary Thai bashing.

 

PH

 

This is the full story initially posted with no links (underlinded). Where does it say 14 yet to be confirmed. New cases plus 8 imported.

 

 

Thai health officials on Monday confirmed 382 new COVID-19 cases.

 

Of the new cases, 360 were local transmissions, linked to the outbreak in Samut Sakhon, while 8 were imported from overseas.

 

No new deaths were reported, while a further 12 people have been discharged from hospital.

 

Monday’s cases brings the total number of COVID-19 cases in Thailand to 5,289

Edited December 21, 2020 by dinsdale

[jlwilliamsjr18]

Very concerning, that a laissez-faire attitude has led to this. Hopeful, is key but immediate action and deep introspective research is needed. It's no coincidence that viruses thrive in fresh markets, even among humans.

[Percy P]

3 minutes ago, lovethai123 said:

prayut and his boys will handle it. dont worry. u r in best country in the world.. 

Thailand has handled the so called pandemic . Look at the situation in other countries .I'm English living in Thailand. In the South of England a new variant of CV has come to light which has 70% more penetration and is running out of control..

UK was late in implementing processor measures.More then likely the people at the top thought it was more of less a temporally illness ,how wrong they were.  

Thailand was already wearing masks due to the bad air conditions well before the Virus so it was nothing to. fall in line with government instrutions. Well done Thais people . It's water droplets from one's speech which is transmitted into the surrounding air.. So if everyone wears a mask no problem

[FritsSikkink]

2 hours ago, shady86 said:

No point doing normal temperature checks and contact tracings as 90% of the infections are asymptomatic. The only way is do massive tests to check the how many are actually infected. Else, just focus on those with symptoms and live with the virus until vaccine comes.  

They do tests with all the people who came in contact with the infected.

[natway09]

Being a large fishing port with foreign labour on the boats dropping in for some R & R before their

next soujourn at sea it was bound to happen in particular if what we are told is true & Myanmar is riddled with the virus

[chilly07]

Wuhan style lockdowns needed here. They knew just how to nip it in the bud! Wonder why?

[RJRS1301]

1 hour ago, vandeventer said:

It's bound to hit us hard one day,  that's why we need the vaccines today not 6 months from now.

You want a vaccine, which "may" prevent one strain (like the early flu injections), but  no longer term studies on efficacy, side effects, (being done now as hundreds of thousands are vaccianted) and mutant strains coming on fast,.

I'm not so sure myself, jury out for me.

I reckon within 36 hour( depending on testing numbers)infection number will be over 1600, given close living conditions, general hygiene conditions, one thing that masks are accepted, but they can also be a problem due to improper usage affecting efficacy, and social distancing adherence

 

 

Edited December 21, 2020 by RJRS1301

[ronaldo0]

Ah reality bites and now testing has started Pandora’s box is open ! Surprise ????

[Big Yuley]

????????

It is a great Christmas after all

[John Drake]

2 hours ago, Guderian said:

And for good measure, just to show there are no hard feelings, we've sent (and are still sending every day) the same present to Sleepy Joe Biden, who doesn't want to sign a trade deal with us.

Why does everybody always forget about Kamala?

[anchadian]

The SET has really taken a dive on this news amongst other adverse news in Thailand.

 

https://www.set.or.th/set/mainpage.do?language=en&country=US

[John Drake]

1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said:

A bar girl is your source for info?  Seriously?  Come on....

You would rather rely on the government?