Samut Sakhon confirms another 900 COVID-19 cases

 

 

Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province has confirmed another 900 new COVID-19 cases, from proactive screening of about 3,800 workers in local factories.

 

The province’s public health department says they are considering using the factories as quarantine facilities.

 

Dr. Opas Karnkawinpong, permanent secretary at the disease control department, said that the infections across Samut Sakhon and adjacent areas are 71% Myanmar nationals, 24% Thais and 5% other nationals.

 

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So today's total of new cases is going to top 1,000 for the first time. Might even top 1,500 if it's been a bad day in the provinces.

Mr Prayut, this is not something to be proud of. Listen to your experts in the CCSA, for goodness sake. Get your finger out and fix it!

It's all over. 

Lockdowns for the whole country are coming and I think that everyone knows it.

In L.A. they are telling paramedics not to pick up people who won't make it and leave them.  They have mobile refrigerated trucks for bodies in parts of north america because morgues cannot handle the bodies.

IT's not about the 1 percent or so death rate, it's about it happening all at once.  

And unfortunately, as much as it hurts, Thailand is heading in the same direction.  I only hope they can pull out of it.  

Maybe do some “proactive screening” in other areas while you are at it. 

According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ there are reported 365 new Covid cases in Thailand today. I'm assuming this is in addition to the 900.

 

So a total of 1,265 cases.

The new count announced today was 365 so these new ones will go into tomorrows official figures meaning that it will be well over 1000 cases tomorrow. The highest ever recorded in Thailand in a 24 hour period. 

 

Out of the 3800 total tested in this blitz on factories in Samut Sakhon 900 are positive giving a positivity rate of around 24%. Thats massive and proof that there is a tragic lack of tests being carried out.

That's a high percentage if they tested 3,800 and 900 of them are positive, nearly 24%.

 

Perhaps it's time to start doing more widespread testing.

Nearly 71 per cent of 900 new cases in Samut Sakhon are Myanmar migrants

By THE NATION

 

 

Some 900 people tested positive in Samut Sakhon recently, a provincial health official said on Wednesday.

 

The official told Nation TV that the province had recently tested 3,800 people as part of its aggressive Covid-19 testing campaign. The results of some 900 people had come back positive.

 

“There are rumours shared on the internet that the 900 new cases were from a canned fish factory in the province, and that the government’s CCSA [Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration] has not been notified yet, and that the province was forced to shut down the factory, ordering all employees to self-quarantine at home,” said the official. “All these rumours are false. The 900 new cases have been found across several factories in the province since the new wave of the outbreak had been reported, and the province has already submitted the statistics to the CCSA.”

 

Meanwhile, Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Disease Control Department, said on Tuesday that the cluster cases in Samut Sakhon had been spreading to 45 provinces nationwide, and 71 per cent of patients are Myanmar migrants, 24 per cent are Thais and 5 per cent are of other nationalities.

 

“Accumulated confirmed patients in the province are at 2,296. These are the results of active case finding by public health officers in several factories in the province,” he added. “If a factory is found to have several infected people, we will turn it into a quarantine facility for its infected employees. Those who have severe symptoms will be sent to a hospital for

 

treatment, while those who have been tested positive with no symptoms for more than 10 days will be allowed to live in a controlled zone together with those who have been ordered to undergo a 14-day quarantine.”

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30400767

 

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41 minutes ago, Guderian said:

So today's total of new cases is going to top 1,000 for the first time. Might even top 1,500 if it's been a bad day in the provinces.

Mr Prayut, this is not something to be proud of. Listen to your experts in the CCSA, for goodness sake. Get your finger out and fix it!

You clearly don't understand how this works. The virus is out there now and it will take weeks for all the new restrictions and lockdowns to kick in before the numbers that are reported finally start the reduce. It is all about flattening the curve.

The PM has already stated this a couple of weeks ago and told people not to panic if the numbers increase in the near future. 

49 minutes ago, AmySeeker said:

It's all over. 

Yes I hear the sensuous tones of the Lady Rotund!

25 minutes ago, HOAX said:

According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ there are reported 365 new Covid cases in Thailand today. I'm assuming this is in addition to the 900.

 

So a total of 1,265 cases.

yesterday they didn't include the migrant cases either, but I guess they arn't to blame if their source is the official figure given by Thailand

 

seems the migrant cases do not count, maybe they're added to the Myanmar total

14 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

You clearly don't understand how this works. The virus is out there now and it will take weeks for all the new restrictions and lockdowns to kick in before the numbers that are reported finally start the reduce. It is all about flattening the curve.

The PM has already stated this a couple of weeks ago and told people not to panic if the numbers increase in the near future. 

 

The other factor is that these new cases are found as a result of active case-finding/proactive testing among migrant workers.

 

We already know the virus is present and circulating in migrant worker communities in that province. After having screened all the workers at the initial work site they are now fanning out to other sites, factories, etc. And they will likely continue to find cases.

 

Fortunately migrant workers  tend to live and work in fairly confined spheres.

 

Of course, Thais at these same locations, and by extension their families, are at risk and some of them will be positive as well.

 

The key question is to what extent  have infections in that "bridge" population (Thais  in connect with migrant workers) seeded infections  n the broader Thai community.

12 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Yes I hear the sensuous tones of the Lady Rotund!

You don't mean it really, the Fat Lady is singing, omg, what will Prayut say.  Oh well Ice cream for all it appears, or as another swan song goes "Turn out the lights, the parties over"......

41 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Thats massive and proof that there is a tragic lack of tests being carried out.

 

No no that cant be right ...Thailand has miraculously contained Covid for the last year and should be congratulated on its policies.........just ask many of the thai visa members who also believe the cheques in the post!

41 minutes ago, Jake72 said:

Perhaps it's time to start doing more widespread testing.

 

Time for that was a year ago!!

1 hour ago, AmySeeker said:

It's all over. 

For you, maybe lol Thais will plow through it, same as they dealt with the floods in 2011. 

1 hour ago, Blumpie said:

Lockdowns for the whole country are coming and I think that everyone knows it.

In L.A. they are telling paramedics not to pick up people who won't make it and leave them.  They have mobile refrigerated trucks for bodies in parts of north america because morgues cannot handle the bodies.

IT's not about the 1 percent or so death rate, it's about it happening all at once.  

And unfortunately, as much as it hurts, Thailand is heading in the same direction.  I only hope they can pull out of it.  

I bet Thailand will be nowhere as bad as anti-masker / its onlt the flu USA. 

51 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The new count announced today was 365 so these new ones will go into tomorrows official figures meaning that it will be well over 1000 cases tomorrow. The highest ever recorded in Thailand in a 24 hour period. 

 

Out of the 3800 total tested in this blitz on factories in Samut Sakhon 900 are positive giving a positivity rate of around 24%. Thats massive and proof that there is a tragic lack of tests being carried out.

So you think 1000's were infected and walking around 6 month ago? I think not. Impossible. 

But the authorities should bave been testing migrant workers from September when Myanmar's cases exploded. That was their bad. 

4 minutes ago, DavisH said:

So you think 1000's were infected and walking around 6 month ago? I think not. Impossible. 

But the authorities should bave been testing migrant workers from September when Myanmar's cases exploded. That was their bad. 

Racist comment, why only test migrants in your view?

1 hour ago, Blumpie said:

Lockdowns for the whole country are coming and I think that everyone knows it.

Knew that since Christmas.

 

When are they going to start doing some proactive screening amongst the local Thai population?

20 minutes ago, DavisH said:

So you think 1000's were infected and walking around 6 month ago? I think not. Impossible. 

 

Never said that but no it would not have been impossible............

19 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Racist comment, why only test migrants in your view?

because they brought it into Thailand, possibly deliberately 

1 minute ago, Petey11 said:

When are they going to start doing some proactive screening amongst the local Thai population?

 

Probably when they can find enough immigrants in the test areas to account for the clusters of positives.

 

However since thousands of Thais work alongside their immigrant colleagues in the factories and routinely return to the provinces for New Year .......the blame game should be easy.

2 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

because they brought it into Thailand, possibly deliberately 

And there you have it.  Wow, who could believe that a Xenophobic attitude could be found among an expat such as yourself.  Anyone different than you that comes to this country must be guilty.  Drinking the kool-aid i see.give it a rest.  Its a virus that has mutated and worked it's way around the world 

48 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

The key question is to what extent  have infections in that "bridge" population (Thais  in connect with migrant workers) seeded infections  n the broader Thai community.

That's what the community transmissions number is telling us, isn't it? 250 today, and we should probably include the 13 non-Samut Sakhon migrant transmissions too, because half the reason the Samut Sakhon workers are currently in a fairly confined area is that everyone else is steering well clear. I'm not sure that applies elsewhere.

 

I think the key question is whether the seeded infections have now outstripped the test and trace capacity, as that marks the tipping point as far as I can see. The trouble is we don't know (I don't know, I mean) what the test and trace capacity is.

2 hours ago, Blumpie said:

They have mobile refrigerated trucks for bodies in parts of north america

I read this as "They have mobile refrigerated trucks for bodies IN parts in north america"  Thought that dismemberment was a bit extreme until I read it again ????

52 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

57 minutes ago, DavisH said:

So you think 1000's were infected and walking around 6 month ago? I think not. Impossible. 

But the authorities should bave been testing migrant workers from September when Myanmar's cases exploded. That was their bad. 

Racist comment, why only test migrants in your view?

What is racist about that?  They should test high risk groups.

 

1 minute ago, rabas said:

What is racist about that?  They should test high risk groups.

 

no really they should have closed their borders properly, but too many people would have lost money so a lot of backhanders were paid out