Thailand reports 836 new coronavirus cases, 2 new deaths

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Thailand reports 836 new coronavirus cases, 2 new deaths

 

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BANGKOK, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Thailand reported 836 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, taking its total infections to 20,454.

 

The COVID-19 taskforce said two new deaths were confirmed, taking total fatalities to 79 since the country's first cases in January last year.

 

(Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Martin Petty)

 

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[Laughing Gravy]

I get the feeling that once the authorities get to near 850 positive cases and they pull the plug on testing or reporting. The last few days are very conspicuous with around the same numbers.

 

Who do they think they are fooling!

[terry Meltham]

3 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

I get the feeling that once the authorities get to near 850 positive cases and they pull the plug on testing or reporting. The last few days are very conspicuous with around the same numbers.

 

Who do they think they are fooling!

Most of the Thais

[darksidedog]

I'm caught in two minds over what is going on here. You would expect the numbers to be coming down as they keep mass testing but they aren't. I suspect that the Myanmar workers have been packed in wherever they are, unable to distance themselves from others, so slowly but surely they are giving it to each other, which if correct means it won't slow down until everyone of them has got it.

Around the country apart from that one area it seems better, though while I saw proactive mass testing in Pattaya a few weeks back, no one seems to know how much is going on nationwide right now.

[Sheryl]

Vast majority of the positive cases are in Myanmar workers.  Their numbers are very large and not all have been tested yet. We will keep seeing these sorts of numbers until they all have been.

[webfact]

836 new Covid-19 patients and two deaths, as Thailand crosses 20,000 cases

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Tuesday reported 836 new cases and two deaths.

 

Of the total cases, 17 were overseas travellers in quarantine facilities.

 

Of the new cases, 109 had been exposed to the virus while visiting high-risk areas, with Samut Sakhon province topping the list with 99 cases. One of the patients is a 26-day-old baby, one of the youngest so far, followed by seven in Bangkok and two in Samut Songkhram.

 

Meanwhile, proactive testing led to the discovery of 710 cases, with 688 found in Samut Sakhon and 22 in Bangkok.

 

Of the overseas travellers, 10 were Thais returning from Switzerland, Nigeria, the United States, Canada and Malaysia. A Swede travelled from Denmark, while a Canadian, two French, two Swiss and an Indian flew in from their respective nations.

 

Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin, the spokesperson of CCSA, said there were two more fatalities, taking the death toll to 79.

 

A Thai woman with high blood pressure and hyperlipidemia, 75, residing in Samut Sakhon, developed symptoms on January 25 after contact with her infected husband. She had only slight symptoms initially. She was confirmed positive on January 28 when she started to develop fatigue and difficulty in breathing. She passed away at Samut Sakhon Hospital on January 30.

 

A Thai man, 68, with diabetes and last stage kidney disease visited a karaoke booth in Samut Sakhon province. He had cough, runny nose and muscle ache on December 30 and was confirmed positive on January 7. After a long fight for a month, he passed away on February 1.

 

Meanwhile, 703 patients have recovered and been discharged.

 

As of Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases in Thailand has risen to 20,454. Of these, 17,974 contracted the virus locally, including 10,088 who were found via proactive testing, while 2,480 are returnees. So far, 13,217 have recovered and been discharged, 7,158 patients are still in hospital and the death toll has risen to 79.

 

According to Worldometer, as of 10am on Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases globally had risen to 103.92 million (up by 392,565), 75.71 million have recovered, 25.94 million are active cases (107,956 in severe condition) and 2.25 million have died (up by 9,210).

 

Thailand ranks 115th on the global list of most cases. The US tops the list with 26.91 million, followed by India 10.77 million, Brazil 9.23 million, Russia 3.86 million and the United Kingdom 3.83 million.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30402142

 

 

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[stubuzz]

And the 5 children from yesterday?

[ThailandRyan]

You have to wonder at the plan of not mass testing elsewhere in the country.  I do understand they feel that the cases are strictly pinned down in Samut Sakhon, but then that makes no sense if that province is on a lockdown, how are people still visiting high risk Area's if the whole of Samut Sakhon is a high risk location to begin with.  As far as I am led to believe by talking with the Thai folks around myself, and then to the north, the government is only testing those that walk into the hospitals with symptoms and then their contacts.  Do they not want to get a clearer picture of the spread, or do they not....I know it is a loaded question.  Guess we need to accept that it is all under control.

 

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[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, stubuzz said:

And the 5 children from yesterday?

But that can not be, just the other day a Thai respiratory specialist doctor said kids can not be spreaders....

[RichardColeman]

44 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

I get the feeling that once the authorities get to near 850 positive cases and they pull the plug on testing or reporting. The last few days are very conspicuous with around the same numbers.

 

Who do they think they are fooling!

I agree - before it was like 3 even weeks of 200-300 infections , now it's an even week of 800-900.

 

It's all way too even - there obviously to me seems to be an agreed number of declared results or tests done and then stop reporting or testing.

 

 

[DavisH]

4 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

I agree - before it was like 3 even weeks of 200-300 infections , now it's an even week of 800-900.

 

It's all way too even - there obviously to me seems to be an agreed number of declared results or tests done and then stop reporting or testing.

 

 

There is probably a limit to how many tests can be done per day. There are so many positive migrant cases that the number of tests has not affected the positivity rate. It is likely we will see these kinds of numbers for a few weeks. 

[jacko45k]

45 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

I'm caught in two minds over what is going on here. You would expect the numbers to be coming down as they keep mass testing but they aren't. I suspect that the Myanmar workers have been packed in wherever they are, unable to distance themselves from others, so slowly but surely they are giving it to each other, which if correct means it won't slow down until everyone of them has got it.

Around the country apart from that one area it seems better, though while I saw proactive mass testing in Pattaya a few weeks back, no one seems to know how much is going on nationwide right now.

How many of them are there....? We get close to a thousand new infections a day for weeks suggesting it is more about the testing rate.... and  are these many all illegals, who bypassed quarantine?

[FarFlungFalang]

836 infections 2 days in a row!What are the odds?That's twice in the space of a few weeks that 2 consecutive days have the same number of reported infections what are the odds of that?

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

I'm caught in two minds over what is going on here. You would expect the numbers to be coming down as they keep mass testing but they aren't. I suspect that the Myanmar workers have been packed in wherever they are, unable to distance themselves from others, so slowly but surely they are giving it to each other, which if correct means it won't slow down until everyone of them has got it.

Around the country apart from that one area it seems better, though while I saw proactive mass testing in Pattaya a few weeks back, no one seems to know how much is going on nationwide right now.

Why would you expect the numbers to come as they keep mass testing?What I find strange is the flatline nature of reported numbers they are neither going up or down which is what I would expect to happen, not 2 consecutive days of the same number twice in the space of a few weeks!

[FarFlungFalang]

33 minutes ago, DavisH said:

There is probably a limit to how many tests can be done per day. There are so many positive migrant cases that the number of tests has not affected the positivity rate. It is likely we will see these kinds of numbers for a few weeks. 

There is probably a limit to the number of tests that "are" being done, not a limit on the number of test that "can" be done.The Government has the resources to do as many tests as they please.What is the  current positivity rate of the tests being done each day for the past week or so?I've been trying to find the number of tests conducted but can't find them,do you know where they are being published?

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, Laughing Gravy said:

I get the feeling that once the authorities get to near 850 positive cases and they pull the plug on testing or reporting. The last few days are very conspicuous with around the same numbers.

 

Who do they think they are fooling!

Who do they think they are fooling?Obviously people less intelligent than they are which is a very small number of people by the looks of it.4th in the world for dealing with the pandemic and 104th for transparency and corruption.That might be a clue.

Edited February 2, 2021 by FarFlungFalang

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, Sheryl said:

Vast majority of the positive cases are in Myanmar workers.  Their numbers are very large and not all have been tested yet. We will keep seeing these sorts of numbers until they all have been.

This seems to suggest that they are all locked up and not allowed to move around freely merely because they are migrant workers.If this is the case how many are being locked up and why?

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, Sheryl said:

Vast majority of the positive cases are in Myanmar workers.  Their numbers are very large and not all have been tested yet. We will keep seeing these sorts of numbers until they all have been.

No despite the high numbers still testing positive in the other thread they've just announced that they are reducing the tests from 10,000 a day to 2,000 a day as of tomorrow. So expect a nice looking graph heading downwards soon. Its a great way to get that shrimp market back up and running. 

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1204370-community-testing-continues-in-samut-sakhon/?tab=comments#comment-16218587

 

[foreverlomsak]

1 hour ago, stubuzz said:

And the 5 children from yesterday?

There are often reports from district about cases/clusters which never seem to reach the daily reports for the whole of Thailand, makes you wonder why they are manipulating the figures, with no tourists to influence (and none for quite some time in the future).

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

As far as I am led to believe by talking with the Thai folks around myself, and then to the north, the government is only testing those that walk into the hospitals with symptoms and then their contacts. 

Except for SS that's pretty much the case. The thing with mass testing....real mass testing, is you pick up both symptomatic and asymptomatic. Mass testing is only occuring in one area of one province and we haven't heard for a long time what % are asymtomatic. Problem is for the govt if they actually test large numbers of the population the numbers will increase (now on the whole they can just blame foreign workers) and their bragging about how good they are goes down the tube.

[Sheryl]

1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

This seems to suggest that they are all locked up and not allowed to move around freely merely because they are migrant workers.If this is the case how many are being locked up and why?

 

Those who test positive and those known to have been in contact with a positive case are confined to quarantine centers (from which there are people discharged each day). Others are not.

[Petey11]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

You have to wonder at the plan of not mass testing elsewhere in the country.  I do understand they feel that the cases are strictly pinned down in Samut Sakhon, but then that makes no sense if that province is on a lockdown, how are people still visiting high risk Area's if the whole of Samut Sakhon is a high risk location to begin with.  As far as I am led to believe by talking with the Thai folks around myself, and then to the north, the government is only testing those that walk into the hospitals with symptoms and then their contacts.  Do they not want to get a clearer picture of the spread, or do they not....I know it is a loaded question.  Guess we need to accept that it is all under control.

 

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Think they don't want to know, looks good to the world and save face

[Petey11]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

But that can not be, just the other day a Thai respiratory specialist doctor said kids can not be spreaders....

Just look at uk when schools reopened in September, 4-6 weeks later and figures started to climb steeply. Kids are a good vector for the virus, no social distancing, close contact and mostly don't have symptoms and take it home to their families. Covid couldn't find a better host.

[PGSan]

3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

You would expect the numbers to be coming down as they keep mass testing

Please can you explain why this should happen?  Thanks! 

[PGSan]

2 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

What are the odds?

Please do tell us, including your assumptions concerning independence if the random variables involved.  Many thanks!

[PGSan]

2 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

The Government has the resources to do as many tests as they please.

Do they?  How do we know this?  

[PGSan]

2 hours ago, foreverlomsak said:

makes you wonder why they are manipulating the figures

Or think about whether they are doing this!  

[FarFlungFalang]

3 minutes ago, PGSan said:

Do they?  How do we know this?  

We know this because Thailand is rank forth  in the world for dealing with the pandemic(104th in the world for transparency and corruption) and also because of the massive construction projects currently in progress and the massive foreign currency reserves they,Thailand, boast about.

[AmySeeker]

3 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Vast majority of the positive cases are in Myanmar workers.  Their numbers are very large and not all have been tested yet. We will keep seeing these sorts of numbers until they all have been.

 

How many Myanmar workers are there ?!!?!

 

They've been saying this for a month now .... !!!!!

Edited February 2, 2021 by AmySeeker

[FarFlungFalang]

18 minutes ago, PGSan said:

Please do tell us, including your assumptions concerning independence if the random variables involved.  Many thanks!

I don't know what the odds are that's why I asked the question.Sorry I don't understand the second part of your request perhaps you could put it a different way.Cheers!

 

Edited February 2, 2021 by FarFlungFalang