Samut Sakhon finds 914 new COVID-19 infections

[snoop1130]

Samut Sakhon finds 914 new COVID-19 infections

 

Reuters file photo

 

Health officials on Monday reported 914 new COVID-19 infections in Samut Sakhon following the start of widespread testing which will eventually see almost 60,000 people in the province tested for the virus.

 

Among the first round of testing carried out on Monday found 844 cases, 760 of which were from migrant workers, with 84 Thais testing positive. 

 

A further 35 migrant workers and 35 Thais tested positive after taking tests at hospitals.

 

Health officials said they will test more than 10,000 people per day for the next  five days and expect to find around 800 new cases each day. 

 

 

They said because of this, the number of new cases found on Monday was as they expected.

 

In preparation for the discovery of more cases, field hospitals have  been set up in the province which can accommodate around 2,500 patients.

 

Tests are mainly being carried out among the migrant worker population in the province at factories and dormitories.

 

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[Guderian]

They're going to need a lot more than 60,000 tests when they finally realise that it's already spread from Samut Sakhon and is rife in Bangkok. Shut down the big mango now, and stop its residents from travelling out to infect the rest of the country. The CCSA  has completely dropped the ball on this one. 

[ukrules]

Build a wall around it ????

[kevin612]

Real number of cases are coming

[Meat Pie 47]

4 minutes ago, kevin612 said:

Real number of cases are coming

Nah tomorrows headline will say it was all a misunderstanding

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

As a comparison with neighbors seven day averages for Laos and Cambodia are zero and three respectively.   Job well done!  Before anyone tries to claim Laos and Cambodia aren't as transparent as Thailand don't bother - the "if Thailand were lying about their numbers there would be full hospitals and bodies in the streets" crowd will be along to shout you down seeing as how there are no full hospitals or bodies in the streets in Laos or Cambodia either.

[ourmanflint]

It'll be down to zero net week, there's no need to worry

[RichardColeman]

What was it Sunday ? Found 5000, Monday found another 900 - where are they on worldometer ?

[Lickey]

Perhaps been riding a mobike in a T shirt after the sun goes down? 

 

[Rockhound]

How many of us know anyone who is ill with Covid now?  I don't know anyone.

[Oldie]

6 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

As a comparison with neighbors seven day averages for Laos and Cambodia are zero and three respectively.   Job well done!  Before anyone tries to claim Laos and Cambodia aren't as transparent as Thailand don't bother - the "if Thailand were lying about their numbers there would be full hospitals and bodies in the streets" crowd will be along to shout you down seeing as how there are no full hospitals or bodies in the streets in Laos or Cambodia either.

In countries with reported very high rates are no bodies on the streets. I think your approach is too simple. 

[fdbob]

So some people have covid Kos many are sick

[MasterBaker]

do 60k tests in any province and see real numbers, i guess it's easy to blame workers, crowded by dozens in the room for spreading the virus

[kiwikeith]

22 minutes ago, MasterBaker said:

do 60k tests in any province and see real numbers, i guess it's easy to blame workers, crowded by dozens in the room for spreading the virus

Seeing that Lord Fishmonger has his Myanmar slaves in crowded accommodation I find it quite feasible that they discovered 900 positive cases. 

Now the problem is all the building sites in Bangkok and other places that the government employed slave traders have deposited slaves. 

[charmonman]

7 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

As a comparison with neighbors seven day averages for Laos and Cambodia are zero and three respectively.   Job well done!  Before anyone tries to claim Laos and Cambodia aren't as transparent as Thailand don't bother - the "if Thailand were lying about their numbers there would be full hospitals and bodies in the streets" crowd will be along to shout you down seeing as how there are no full hospitals or bodies in the streets in Laos or Cambodia either.

So, a certain percentage of people infected with this virus do end up sick enough to require hospitalization. So if there were indeed thousands upon thousands of infections there would indeed be a lot of hospitalizations, which does not seem to be the case. 
Kindly explain the flaw in this argument.

[SiSePuede419]

1 hour ago, Rockhound said:

How many of us know anyone who is ill with Covid now?  I don't know anyone.

See?

 

That proves you don't know anyone. ????

[mtls2005]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Health officials said they will test more than 10,000 people per day for the next  five days and expect to find around 800 new cases each day. 

 

So the positivity rate (in this 'cluster') is ~ 8+ %?

 

Still say they should release one set of numbers from on source at the same time every day.

 

Yes, I understand that these ~ 900-ish will be in today's numbers.

 

 

[DUNROAMIN]

This was well on its way before they found it at Samut Sakhon. With no mass testing I suspect there are thousands of Asystemic cases all over Thailand. There have been cases poping up all over Isaan country, just not been reported.

[rickthompson]

The real question here is what level of cycle threshold are they testing at? The WHO, FDA and others use cycle thresholds that are higher than the actual science shows will detect live virus.  If they test at those rates, it will always show many positive tests that contain dead viral cells and are not infectious and will not cause the Covid-19 disease.

 

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[zaZa9]

Just now, DUNROAMIN said:

This was well on its way before they found it at Samut Sakhon. With no mass testing I suspect there are thousands of Asystemic cases all over Thailand. There have been cases poping up all over Isaan country, just not been reported.

 

So how do you know about them?

 

For this outbreak we can surely thank the Elite who needed to save around 200 baht a day per Burmese labourer over Thai labourer that they are supposed to 'Love' ( Thai rak Thai ) .

They used corrupt officials  to get the infected Burmese  on-site  without the pesky expense of paying for their  Quarantine , and continue to use corruption to  avoid any repercussions , and the Thai Government say and do  nothing about it all.

Every Thai taxpayer and business in Thailand  is now paying for their greed and it is  they that  should be bankrupted  by being made to pay for treatments.

[Franko666]

8 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

As a comparison with neighbors seven day averages for Laos and Cambodia are zero and three respectively.   Job well done!  Before anyone tries to claim Laos and Cambodia aren't as transparent as Thailand don't bother - the "if Thailand were lying about their numbers there would be full hospitals and bodies in the streets" crowd will be along to shout you down seeing as how there are no full hospitals or bodies in the streets in Laos or Cambodia either.

So you are trying to tell me these 2 third world Countries in the middle of a global pandemic are Covid free. Ok!????

[welovesundaysatspace]

8 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

As a comparison with neighbors seven day averages for Laos and Cambodia are zero and three respectively.   Job well done! 

The three countries are (were) performing equally well. The reason Thailand has this (and had the other much smaller) outbreak was because of illegal immigration; migrant workers now and prostitutes then. Of course, that’s much less likely in Laos and Cambodia. 

 

8 hours ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

if Thailand were lying about their numbers there would be full hospitals and bodies in the streets

Exactly. 
 

 

[welovesundaysatspace]

11 minutes ago, rickthompson said:

The real question here is what level of cycle threshold are they testing at? The WHO, FDA and others use cycle thresholds that are higher than the actual science shows will detect live virus.  If they test at those rates, it will always show many positive tests that contain dead viral cells and are not infectious and will not cause the Covid-19 disease. 

Whether Covid or any other disease, a doctor will never consider only one test result to form an opinion but overall Clinical presentation, a confirmatory test and additional diagnostic as well. 

[Surasak]

1 hour ago, Rockhound said:

How many of us know anyone who is ill with Covid now?  I don't know anyone.

Neither do I, but it doesn't mean its not around. Plus, schools returned in this area yesterday so anything could happen.

[welovesundaysatspace]

1 hour ago, Rockhound said:

How many of us know anyone who is ill with Covid now?  I don't know anyone.

How many of us know anyone who has been on the moon or who can run 100 meters in less than 10 seconds? ???????? 

[mjakob007]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Samut Sakhon finds 914 new COVID-19 infections

 

Reuters file photo

 

Health officials on Monday reported 914 new COVID-19 infections in Samut Sakhon following the start of widespread testing which will eventually see almost 60,000 people in the province tested for the virus.

 

Among the first round of testing carried out on Monday found 844 cases, 760 of which were from migrant workers, with 84 Thais testing positive. 

 

A further 35 migrant workers and 35 Thais tested positive after taking tests at hospitals.

 

Health officials said they will test more than 10,000 people per day for the next  five days and expect to find around 800 new cases each day. 

 

 

They said because of this, the number of new cases found on Monday was as they expected.

 

In preparation for the discovery of more cases, field hospitals have  been set up in the province which can accommodate around 2,500 patients.

 

Tests are mainly being carried out among the migrant worker population in the province at factories and dormitories.

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2021-01-25

 

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[ThailandRyan]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

They said because of this, the number of new cases found on Monday was as they expected.

Is this why they have not tested the rest of Thailands population as they are truly afraid of what the numbers might be, and they would loose FACE.  

[henry213]

8 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Nah tomorrows headline will say it was all a misunderstanding

Yeah they meant "Road accidents so far this year" 

[DUNROAMIN]

2 minutes ago, zaZa9 said:

 

So how do you know about them?

 

For this outbreak we can surely thank the Elite who needed to save around 200 baht a day per Burmese labourer over Thai labourer that they are supposed to 'Love' ( Thai rak Thai ) .

They used corrupt officials  to get the infected Burmese  on-site  without the pesky expense of paying for their  Quarantine , and continue to use corruption to  avoid any repercussions , and the Thai Government say and do  nothing about it all.

Every Thai taxpayer and business in Thailand  is now paying for their greed and it is  they that  should be bankrupted  by being made to pay for treatments.

Isaan farangs have Thai partners who have extended family everywhere, word of mouth travels fast, no secrets here. 

Agree with your statement, things will never change here, corruption is a way of life here in Thailand on all levels of society.

[NorthernRyland]

1 hour ago, charmonman said:

So, a certain percentage of people infected with this virus do end up sick enough to require hospitalization. So if there were indeed thousands upon thousands of infections there would indeed be a lot of hospitalizations, which does not seem to be the case. 

During the peak in my state of Colorado we had an average of 23 people per hospital. That's from roughly 2500 active hospitalizations and 108 hospitals, in a population of 5.8 million. Please anyone explain how Thailands chaotic public hospital system would have have any idea whatsoever if there were 20-30 more people in the hospital.

 

US has terrible numbers compared to any Asian country and most European countries (compare CO with Denmark which has a similar population) so Thailand would most certainly have much lower hospitalizations.