829 new cases, most from intensive testing in Samut Sakhon

[FarFlungFalang]

Perth and the SW of Western Australia is now in lockdown after one person tested positive.

[ThailandRyan]

4 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Perth and the SW of Western Australia is now in lockdown after one person tested positive.

Saw that just a few ago.  Taking it very seriously, so I am unsure why Thailand is doing the opposite of what they did before.  I hope to hell that it has not spread massively, but then we may never know as they are more concerned with their status and FACE.  Testing now outside of Samut Sakhon in Bangkok might give them a better idea of the spread, as I do not believe that people are going and getting tested that may have low level symptoms.

[Blumpie]

It's only above 800.  Everything is fine.

Soon it will be above 1000.  Everything will be fine.

When it gets to tens of thousands, wait for it.  It's hard to hide the sick when that happens.  

[impulse]

4 hours ago, dcnx said:

Yet they are open and living life again. Concerts, bars, crowded events... very few issues.

 

Except for the cities where they have hauled the entire population out of their homes and into quarantine centers.  Maybe not the entire population, but tens of thousands.  Shijiazhuang in Hebei comes to mind.

 

[DavisH]

6 hours ago, Fex Bluse said:

There is a mountain of evidence (from Chinese in China and others) that China has been dramatically underreporting from the beginning. 

 

Best estimates are that many millions have died already and 10s of millions have been infected. 

 

Nothing China says can be believed. 

 

Best estimates from whom?

[Meat Pie 47]

1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Perth and the SW of Western Australia is now in lockdown after one person tested positive.

Yes the area where I live but I haven't been out for days and not to the mentioned places

so it looks like I will wear a mask for the first time since Covid started. We had a good run

of 10 months of no local infection.

[Meat Pie 47]

1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Perth and the SW of Western Australia is now in lockdown after one person tested positive.

Yes a security guard employed by the quarantine hotel

[AmySeeker]

Is the covid virus in Thailand sticking to one area ? 

[dcnx]

3 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Perth and the SW of Western Australia is now in lockdown after one person tested positive.

Because THATS how infectious it is, especially with the new variants. If there’s 1, there’s 10 they don’t know about, and so on. 
 

Thailand hasn’t a clue how to handle this. The virus isn’t magically containing itself in one area and hopping from one migrant worker to another.
 

Who’s working with the migrant workers and administering the tests and health care? Doctors and nurses catch it all the time elsewhere around the world. 

[dcnx]

1 hour ago, AmySeeker said:

Is the covid virus in Thailand sticking to one area ? 

Yes. Viruses hate filling out the TM30. 

[dcnx]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Except for the cities where they have hauled the entire population out of their homes and into quarantine centers.  Maybe not the entire population, but tens of thousands.  Shijiazhuang in Hebei comes to mind.

 

That’s how they control it. When anyone tests positive in China they test the entire city of millions over the course of a few days. This aggressive approach is why they are back to normal in 99% of the country.

 

China may be a lot of things, but relaxed about the virus they are not.
 

 

[pookondee]

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Saw that just a few ago.  Taking it very seriously, so I am unsure why Thailand is doing the opposite of what they did before.  I hope to hell that it has not spread massively, but then we may never know as they are more concerned with their status and FACE.  Testing now outside of Samut Sakhon in Bangkok might give them a better idea of the spread, as I do not believe that people are going and getting tested that may have low level symptoms.

Is the testing free for Thais?

Many would not be able to pay.

anyway, with the face issue, im sure most would be embarrassed to say they got it.

 

And id say many would rather stay home and ride it out, instead of the threat of being forced into hospital for having little or no symptoms and getting a bill.

Cant always blame the government for everything.

[Soikhaonoiken]

Why dose this Government always want to dress up the figures, by breaking it down into Thais, immigrant workers, people who are in Quarantine,  the total figures are the important fact,  if you want to break it down, better to report how many tests have been done,  and the positive number infected would make more sence,  me thinks the number of infections are now getting out of control. 

[FarFlungFalang]

6 hours ago, AmySeeker said:

Is the covid virus in Thailand sticking to one area ? 

It's all over!Well maybe,I don't think anyone knows, which is the way they like it here as the recent global corruption index report of Thailand being 104 of 180 countries with corruption and lack of transparency issues.4th for being able to deal with covid and 104th for transparency.Go figure! 

[metisdead]

Off topic posts and replies have been removed.

 

A post containing a graph that was copy and pasted from some site without a supporting link has been removed. 

[ThailandRyan]

Just heard on the news of a 2 month old baby here in Bangkok testing positive for Covid.  731 more cases the channel 7 news is saying, with more in Bangkok.  Wonder if this is part of the 829 or now in addition. Seems it is a further breakdown of the 829 cases. 

[ExpatOilWorker]

10 hours ago, AmySeeker said:

Is the covid virus in Thailand sticking to one area ? 

Yeah, the virus knows how dangerous the Thai roads are. 

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

Yeah, the virus knows how dangerous the Thai roads are. 

Not to mention adhering to the travel restrictions imposed in covid hotspots. 

[rabas]

9 hours ago, Soikhaonoiken said:

Why dose this Government always want to dress up the figures, by breaking it down into Thais, immigrant workers, people who are in Quarantine,  the total figures are the important fact,  if you want to break it down, better to report how many tests have been done,  and the positive number infected would make more sence,  me thinks the number of infections are now getting out of control. 

Because each group contributes to the spread in different ways, so it leads to better decisions. Migrant workers are tightly grouped but partially isolated from the general Thai population. So it can spread quickly among them but less quickly to the general population. Thai will spread it much farther but at a slower rate. That's what is seen now.

 

Thailand does keep track of testing numbers and the all important ratio of tests/positive case. It's been posted here from time to time.

 

The virus is clearly still spreading among Burmese workers. If the rate of spread among Thai, and to other regions increases, that is indeed worrisome. That's why they break the numbers down the way they do,

[superal]

12 hours ago, AmySeeker said:

Is the covid virus in Thailand sticking to one area ? 

It is no secret that the virus can survive weeks on paper money( in one day from BK to Chiang Mai  by delivery drivers using cash in 7 11 stores ) , thus in the UK many shops are refusing to take cash , has to be a credit/ debit card that is placed in a card reader . Now on top of that  other places  where the virus can get you is an ATM machine , lift buttons , door handles , escalator handrails , supermarket trolleys and baskets and any frequently used hard surface e.g. supermarket cashier desk . Often in supermarkets people pick produce from the shelves and put it back , another source of virus transmission .  Transmission is high at 20c but takes a big dive at around 30c and beyond so in cool aircon super markets be careful .

BTW is Samut Sakhon and BK not one place ?

[Glaswegian2]

Dog Whistle.

 

The message they want to convey is that the new cases are discovered as a result of government assiduity. Which is not true.

 

God help us all if these people stay in power.