Thailand reports 559 new COVID-19 cases, 1 more death

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Thailand reported 559 new COVID-19 infections on Friday, continuing the spike of new cases in recent days.

 

Of the new cases, 549 were local transmissions, while 10 were imported from people entering quarantine. 

 

Most of the new cases are linked to the clusters from entertainment venues in Bangkok.

 

A further 27 people were discharged from hospital having made a full recovery.

 

2,645 people remain in hospital receiving treatment.

 

1 more death was also reported. 

 

Friday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 30,869 with 96 deaths.

 

 

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[holy cow cm]

Lockdown coming really soon. Stock up on food and booze now.

[bermondburi]

Anyone not happy with the situation should leave Thailand immediately.

[mstevens]

1,000 per day coming soon?

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, mstevens said:

1,000 per day coming soon?

We are, I believe, well passed that, we just don't have the test data.....this thing is going to rip through Thailand.......Songkran travel should never have been allowed.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Another significant increase from the 405 new cases reported yesterday:

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10157938402612050

 

Official COVID-19 update in Thailand on Friday

* 30,869 people infected (+ 559)

* 28,128 discharged from hospital (+27)

* 2,645 in hospital

* 96 deaths (+1)

 

The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration said the latest imported cases are:

France - 1

China - 2

Estonia - 1

Malaysia - 1

Belgium - 2

United Kingdom - 1

United States of America - 1

 

Edited April 9, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Surelynot]

Our car has Bangkok plates....we drove to a restaurant last night in Isan.........it was busy...open till midnight.......we sat down about 8pm and the waitress came running over....sorry, but the kitchen has just run out of food??

Edited April 9, 2021 by Surelynot

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

266 of the newly reported cases, almost half of the local cases, today are from BKK. Just nine new cases from Samut Sakhon. The remaining 274 from other provinces (plus the 10 imported new cases reported not reflected in the local cases chart below.)

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/302583184693346

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Bkk Brian]

10 minutes ago, mstevens said:

1,000 per day coming soon?

Already but they've run out of test kits in the hotzones in Bangkok so nowhere for people to go locally.

[Mr Meeseeks]

It looks like the inevitable disaster due to incompetence and poor planning is now upon us.

 

Hope the party goers in Thong Lor had a good time though, that's all that matters.

[LosLobo]

Live PBS COVID 19 English Update now:

 

[LIVE] 11.30 น. แถลงสถานการณ์ COVID-19 โดย ศบค. (9 เม.ย. 64) - YouTube

 

Starts about 41:30 minutes

Edited April 9, 2021 by LosLobo

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Govt spokesman in English language briefing this morning says closure of entertainment venues in 41 provinces will begin tonight at midnight, after being approved by the CCSA. Confirms restaurants will NOT be included those closures.

 

Also provides detail that the one additional death reported today involved a 60-year-old Thai man from Narathiwat who had tuberculosis. Described as a prison inmate who had been on a respirator.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Govt. spokesman in EN briefing this morning also updated on the Prime Minister's meeting with reps of the Thailand Private Hospitals Association re the issue of some BKK hospitals lately ceasing to provide COVID tests.

 

Says the hospitals have been claiming they don't have enough supplies to do the tests. But the spokesman says, in fact, it's more because the hospitals don't have enough beds available to admit the patients who would have to be admitted once they test positive.

 

So, the spokesman said the government will be working to expand the supply of hospital beds in Bangkok, work with the local hotel industry to provide hotel/hospital rooms, and look to set up emergency field hospitals in some areas.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Province breakdown of today's newly reported local cases. Does not include the 10 new imported cases for the day. Two separate categories of cases, the first locally reported, and the second below the result of government outreach testing. So today in the case of BKK, Chonburi and PKK, you need to add together the two different subtotals.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10157938426332050

 

[RR2020]

EU, UK, US should ban anyone from travelling to Thailand now........time to red list Thailand.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Latest recap of how the daily new local case numbers (excluding the imported cases) have risen over the past week:

 

 

Also, today's report of 401 self-referred cases, excluding the 148 new cases from govt outreach testing, looks to be the highest tally in the chart below that tracks data back to mid December.

 

The red line below tracks self referred cases, while the separate tan color bars on the chart reflect cases derived from the government's outreach testing. The big spike in the tan bars mid chart is from the large Samut Sakhon outbreak where the govt did extensive outreach testing.

 

 

All part of the government's 40 or so page briefing document for the day.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/302584148026583

 

Edited April 9, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Bkk Brian]

Headstart International School Phuket just sent me an email, my daughter goes there, one of the teachers tested positive. They had attended the recent party in Phuket. All the children from the teachers age group are now to be tested along with the majority of teachers.

[WineOh]

I've just caught a glimpse of the horizon and it's as grim as grim can be.

 

Just been out for 15 liters of Kulov vodka and I'm locking myself in my study until July 1st.

 

It's gonna be rough.

[Upnotover]

2 minutes ago, WineOh said:

I've just caught a glimpse of the horizon and it's as grim as grim can be.

 

Just been out for 15 liters of Kulov vodka and I'm locking myself in my study until July 1st.

 

It's gonna be rough.

Could be worse, you could've gone to Udon Thani.

[HOAX]

This is just sad. Good luck guys. Take care.

[WineOh]

Just now, Upnotover said:

Could be worse, you could've gone to Udon Thani.

I was playing it by ear.

udon was still on the list, as was Hua Hin & Pattaya.

 

Now I'm firmly staying put.... this virus is about to get completely out of control.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

The number of patients hospitalized for COVID at Thai hospitals, with today's added cases, has quadrupled over the past month to now more than 2,600 people.

 

The part that's not being publicly reported, though, is what share of those are demonstrably ill vs. what portion have little or no symptoms, and are just being admitted because they've had a positive COVID test.
 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

Ten military facilities in Bangkok reserved for field hospitals as needed

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Defence has made available ten areas in Bangkok for the setting up of field hospitals, with a combined capacity of up to 3,000 patients, in case COVID-19 infections overwhelm existing hospitals.

 

Lt-Gen Kongcheep Tantravanich, spokesman for the ministry, said today (Friday) that, in addition to the field hospitals, the military has also prepared medical personnel and equipment to take care of the patients.

 

Meanwhile, both the Rajavithi and Ramathibodi hospitals have separately announced the limitation of non-urgent medical services and are urging patients, who are not urgently in need of treatment, to postpone their visits, after some of their staff contracted COVID-19 and several others, who were in close contact with them, were quarantined.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/ten-military-facilities-in-bangkok-reserved-for-field-hospitals-as-needed/

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Surelynot]

21 minutes ago, WineOh said:

It's gonna be rough.

The pandemic or drinking 15 liters  of vodka

[Surelynot]

5 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Ten military facilities in Bangkok reserved for field hospitals as needed

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Defence has made available ten areas in Bangkok for the setting up of field hospitals, with a combined capacity of up to 3,000 patients, in case COVID-19 infections overwhelm existing hospitals.

 

Lt-Gen Kongcheep Tantravanich, spokesman for the ministry, said today (Friday) that, in addition to the field hospitals, the military has also prepared medical personnel and equipment to take care of the patients.

 

Meanwhile, both the Rajavithi and Ramathibodi hospitals have separately announced the limitation of non-urgent medical services and are urging patients, who are not urgently in need of treatment, to postpone their visits, after some of their staff contracted COVID-19 and several others, who were in close contact with them, were quarantined.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/ten-military-facilities-in-bangkok-reserved-for-field-hospitals-as-needed/

 

 

 

Absolutely essential to keep covid patients out of normal hospitals.......once into the hospital environment the virus just runs riot.....

[TooBigToFit]

When I see the way the beds are set up in these field hospitals and quarantine places, I can't imagine how that would work with infected people actually getting healthy there and keeping the virus contained.

[WineOh]

5 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

The pandemic or drinking 15 liters  of vodka

The pandemic mate

[Excel]

11 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Ten military facilities in Bangkok reserved for field hospitals as needed

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Defence has made available ten areas in Bangkok for the setting up of field hospitals, with a combined capacity of up to 3,000 patients, in case COVID-19 infections overwhelm existing hospitals.

 

Lt-Gen Kongcheep Tantravanich, spokesman for the ministry, said today (Friday) that, in addition to the field hospitals, the military has also prepared medical personnel and equipment to take care of the patients.

 

Meanwhile, both the Rajavithi and Ramathibodi hospitals have separately announced the limitation of non-urgent medical services and are urging patients, who are not urgently in need of treatment, to postpone their visits, after some of their staff contracted COVID-19 and several others, who were in close contact with them, were quarantined.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/ten-military-facilities-in-bangkok-reserved-for-field-hospitals-as-needed/

 

 

 

3000, based on other nations 30,000 should be nearer the mark

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The EN language portion of this morning's government COVID briefing.

 

In this video, the government spokesman is discussing a new COVID cluster outbreak in Uthai thani that will be included in tomorrow's statistics, the Prime Minister's meeting today with representatives of Thailand's Private Hospitals Assn. re COVID testing and hospital bed supply shortages, and some update on Thailand's vaccines situation.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/videos/178841587389058/

 

 

[Excel]

42 minutes ago, RR2020 said:

EU, UK, US should ban anyone from travelling to Thailand now........time to red list Thailand.

UK already bans nationals from travelling without due reason.