Thailand reports 212 new COVID-19 cases

 

 

Thailand confirmed 212 new coronavirus cases on Saturday.
 
Of the new cases, 187 were local transmissions, 6 were among migrant workers and 19 were imported from people entering quarantine.

 

Thailand also reported a further 291 people had been discharged from hospital having made a full recovery.

 

No new deaths were reported. 

 

4,440 people remain in hospital or held in a migrant worker quarantine centre.

 

Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 10,053, with 67 deaths.

 

The number of new infections and total cases in Thailand since 14 Dec is as follows:
 
14 Dec: +28 (4,237)
15 Dec: +9 (4,246)
16 Dec: +15 (4,261)
17 Dec: +20 (4,281)
18 Dec: +16 (4,297)
19 Dec: +34 (4,331)
20 Dec: +576 (4,907)
21 Dec: +382 (5,289)
22 Dec: +427 (5,716)
23 Dec: +46 (5,762)
24 Dec: +67 (5,829)
25 Dec: +81 (5,910)
26 Dec: +110 (6,020)
27 Dec: +121 (6,141)
28 Dec: +144 (6,285)
29 Dec: +155 (6,440)
30 Dec: +250 (6,690)
31 Dec: +194 (6,884)
1 Jan: +279 (7,163)
2 Jan: +216 (7,379) 
3 Jan: +315 (7,694)
4 Jan: +745 (8,439)
5 Jan: +527 (8,966)
6 Jan:+365 (9,331)
7 Jan:+305 (9,636)
8 Jan:+205 (9,841)
9 Jan:+212 (10,053)
 

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Not great news, but it could have been so much worse...

...just a week ago we went from 200 to 300 to over 700 cases in three days, and many said that's it, we're doomed.

Let's hope they can get the current ~200 cases down below 100 and then down into single figures. 

Way to go, Thailand!

Testing will tell the truth, but it appears they want to make it go away without testing anyone who will not show symptoms or they can not find through track and tracing.

22 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Testing will tell the truth, but it appears they want to make it go away without testing anyone who will not show symptoms or they can not find through track and tracing.

If they can make it go away without massive testing, then more power to them. That is what the World Health Organization recommends. WHO recommends you test based on what percentage of tests are positive.  If the percentage is high you are not testing enough. Thailand's percentage has been very low, so they exceed WHO recommendations.

 

Good for them. Thai Chana !

So I was just talking to my better half about this, and she agress with me that the numbers touted each day are nowhere near the truth. I asked her, where can we even get tested in Ubon - Is there a clinic/COVID testing booth/drive thru or something? To which she replied; No, we have to go to a hospital.

 

She then said; "Who's going to go and get tested anywhay when you have to pay for the test? If your infected, you can't work, your friends and family can't work, why would people bother?" This is why folks aren't getting tested - you have to pay for the test. Obviously the biggest obstacle to testing in Thailand.

 "19 were imported from people entering quarantine."

Where are they coming from and are they Thais who are not doing the 72 hour test and infecting other on their flight?

3 minutes ago, 10baht said:

 "19 were imported from people entering quarantine."

Where are they coming from and are they Thais who are not doing the 72 hour test and infecting other on their flight?

5 Myanmar nationals who snuck over the border, plus 4 people from Germany, 3 each from Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, 2 from the United States and 1 each from Uganda and the UK.

 

The people in ASQ are more likely to have caught it in the 5-6 days before the flight or from someone else on the flight who did, especially someone who thought they didn't need to bother masking up because they'd been tested.

59 minutes ago, rabas said:

If they can make it go away without massive testing, then more power to them. That is what the World Health Organization recommends. WHO recommends you test based on what percentage of tests are positive.  If the percentage is high you are not testing enough. Thailand's percentage has been very low, so they exceed WHO recommendations.

 

Good for them. Thai Chana !

 

Like when they tested 3,800 migrant workers and found 900 cases = 24%?

 

All the while saying everything was under control.

 

Yeah...good for them.

 

Fail.

Government and health care should be focused on getting the vaccine and distribution.  Testing and detection only works when people want to get tested, so does not stop the spread 100% .  

1 minute ago, DLock said:

Like when they tested 3,800 migrant workers and found 900 cases = 24%?

 

All the while saying everything was under control.

 

Yeah...good for them.

 

Fail.

 

Sorry, you are the one who has failed. That was a single confined outbreak after a year of successful testing. They increased testing to bring positives in range and identify the cases. Success.

 

Thailand 1.  You, well, not so much.

 

1 minute ago, rabas said:

 

Sorry, you are the one who has failed. That was a single confined outbreak after a year of successful testing. They increased testing to bring positives in range and identify the cases. Success.

 

Thailand 1.  You, well, not so much.

 

 

A single confined outbreak?...not quite Slapnuts.

 

That was the second outbreak of 900...the first one of 576, then another of 745 and there are plenty more out there...if you look.

 

But the Thai's and Thai apologists don't want to test if they can get away with it...and just keep re-stating "the vaccines are coming....the vaccines are coming"...hoping to distract the ignorance...and I guess it's working.

 

Thailand has done 1.2million tests TOTAL so far...or 17,425 per million people...pathetic.

 

Fail.

 

Well, the UK reported 52,618 new cases yesterday with 1,162 further deaths and they think that that is fantastic result as it was down from 62,000 cases per day, say the spin doctors (not the NHS). Sweden, the great beacon of original hope that had few restrictions during the first wave has closed shops and public transport. The seemingly draconian measures taken Thai authorities are frankly fine by me - we still end with more freedom that a UK lock down. We don't need the problems the West is facing right now.

47 minutes ago, 2530Ubon said:

So I was just talking to my better half about this, and she agress with me that the numbers touted each day are nowhere near the truth. I asked her, where can we even get tested in Ubon - Is there a clinic/COVID testing booth/drive thru or something? To which she replied; No, we have to go to a hospital.

 

She then said; "Who's going to go and get tested anywhay when you have to pay for the test? If your infected, you can't work, your friends and family can't work, why would people bother?" This is why folks aren't getting tested - you have to pay for the test. Obviously the biggest obstacle to testing in Thailand.

My better half agrees

9 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

Well, the UK reported 52,618 new cases yesterday with 1,162 further deaths and they think that that is fantastic result as it was down from 62,000 cases per day, say the spin doctors (not the NHS). Sweden, the great beacon of original hope that had few restrictions during the first wave has closed shops and public transport. The seemingly draconian measures taken Thai authorities are frankly fine by me - we still end with more freedom that a UK lock down. We don't need the problems the West is facing right now.

 

and here people wet their pants for 1 death once and a while ...

 

where to get the AGE of the death ? anything below 50 ?

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Testing will tell the truth, but it appears they want to make it go away

Your own body makes it go away.

35 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

Well, the UK reported 52,618 new cases yesterday with 1,162 further deaths and they think that that is fantastic result as it was down from 62,000 cases per day, say the spin doctors (not the NHS). Sweden, the great beacon of original hope that had few restrictions during the first wave has closed shops and public transport. The seemingly draconian measures taken Thai authorities are frankly fine by me - we still end with more freedom that a UK lock down. We don't need the problems the West is facing right now.

Erm, where are you getting your information from? The situation is getting worse and the daily figures are higher than ever. Yesterday;

_{https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/}

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January 8th

 

• 68,053 new cases and 1,325 new deaths in the United Kingdom [source]

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55598918

 

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On Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.

Government sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.

"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules," a source told the BBC.

 

 

You have to be careful/cautious about drawing conclusions from day to day case number reports... Because oftentimes, variations in the timing and processing of those leads to inconsistencies, such as over weekends, or what seems to be large batch reporting of migrant positive test results.

 

I think researchers more tend to look at things like 3 and 7 days prior running averages to get a better since of just what direction things are tending....because the averages help even out those reporting variations.

 

But of course, Thailand doesn't report any of its numbers that way.

 

 

1 hour ago, DLock said:

Thailand has done 1.2million tests TOTAL so far...or 17,425 per million people

Good, as this is least as much as is recommended.

16 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Thailand doesn't report any of its numbers that way.

But these are dead simple to calculate, are they not?

1 minute ago, PGSan said:

But these are dead simple to calculate, are they not?

 

Yep, just don't see that being done here on this forum, or by any of the Thai media, or the government.

 

From the news reports I read here every day, they don't even manage to distinguish between the number of locals vs. the number of migrants who are being held in hospitals/field hospitals... Just give 1 overall total.

 

An example of thailands attitude to testing.

 

Chatting with an ex girlfriend today, she told me a week ago she was feeling unwell sore throat slight fever general fatigue, went to the main regional hospital here in a major town in Issan.

 

Was told you have flu and was denied a requested Covid test because she hadnt been to the southern high risk areas and was sent home to the village with paracetamol and it was suggested she go and pay for a test at a private hospital if she was that concerned.

 

Her village had at least a dozen or so factory workers from the South visit over the New Year period.

 

Testing is being discouraged and not made freely available to the general Thai population.

 

 

1 hour ago, rabas said:

That was a single confined outbreak after a year of successful testing

I would hardly call it a year off successfully testing ,more like selective testing.....in that year of testing thailand done 1.2 million tests the U.K. did 54 million.

1 minute ago, taninthai said:

the U.K. did 54 million.

Wow!  How come I missed out on one of these? 

51 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

 

and here people wet their pants for 1 death once and a while ...

 

where to get the AGE of the death ? anything below 50 ?

I don’t know for Thailand but the average UK COVID death age is in the 80s.

Younger people have died, of course, but at at an extremely low mortality rate.

29 minutes ago, sapson said:

An example of thailands attitude to testing.

 

Chatting with an ex girlfriend today, she told me a week ago she was feeling unwell sore throat slight fever general fatigue, went to the main regional hospital here in a major town in Issan.

 

Was told you have flu and was denied a requested Covid test because she hadnt been to the southern high risk areas and was sent home to the village with paracetamol and it was suggested she go and pay for a test at a private hospital if she was that concerned.

 

Her village had at least a dozen or so factory workers from the South visit over the New Year period.

 

Testing is being discouraged and not made freely available to the general Thai population.

That would really be a concern.

 

I talked to my local (private) hospital some time back about the rules. They said that a doctor makes the decision based on your symptoms, if any, and history of possible exposure. If the doctor thinks a test is called for, the hospital calls a central number of an authorization code. With the authorization, the test is free even for for the hospital, it's not a financial issue for them.

 

 

IMO, Covid has always been around in Thailand.

 

In general, the disease kills only a few people,  and those deaths were attributed to the symptoms rather than  the underlying causes. Most carriers are asymptomatic anyway. The government has had an array of reasons to keep that information under the lid, and we all lived in a "covid-free" country.  

 

The current plan is to reduced testing and thereby report on less and less cases, until Covid "disappears" again. I venture to guess that the figures will be in the single digit by the end of January.

 

Peace! 

yes S your own body does, but the pressure is on to keep it going, that is what the fight is about right now

1 hour ago, PGSan said:

Good, as this is least as much as is recommended.

 

It's still low compared to what other countries do. Here is a few examples. 

 

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-cumulative-total-tests-per-thousand?time=2020-02-20..latest&country=DNK~THA~GBR~USA

If the covid pandemic hasnt teached us a lesson...

 

The usa current daily death 4000 people. europe lockdowns and wave after wave.

Thailand  however has done (and is doing) EXCELLENT controling and managing a worlwide crisis. 

 

Thats not luck or the warm weather. 

 

Does anyone know where I can get information on the numbers in each province. I have tried Google's not your friend but no results. Are they keeping it secret