Thailand reports over 2,048 COVID-19 cases, 8 new deaths

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Top provinces for new domestic COVID cases reported today, along with prior day's numbers in (parentheses):

 

Bangkok continued to report the most cases as Thailand's most populous province, but Monday's 901 tally was a drop from the 1,078 reported on Sunday.

 

Samut Prakan was second with 110 new cases, up from 77 the day before. Chonburi was third with 104, up from 75 the day before.

 

The other provinces with most cases reported Monday:

 

Nonthaburi -- 97  (down from 115)
Chiang Mai -- 84  (down from 163)
Surat Thani -- 61  (up from 54)
Samut Sakhon -- 56  (up from 52)
 

Nakhon Pathom -- 48  (up from 16)
Songkhla -- 38  (down from 51)
Phetchaburi -- 32  (up from 17)

 

 

 

The National News Bureau of Thailand has a full set in English translation of all the provinces' new domestic COVID cases reported today in the following charts linked below:

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10157975029812050

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10157974996742050

 

[club]

1 hour ago, keith101 said:

It seems these reports are being done earlier every day is that so the numbers are lower ?

I was thinking the same thing. How can they know how many cases for today when its only noon time Monday? This has to be yesterday 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Over the weekend, Thailand's current "third wave" COVID outbreak became the country's largest (28,645 cases since the beginning of April), surpassing in total COVID case numbers each of the two prior outbreaks that preceded it. The second outbreak between last December and running through March had 24,626 cases.

 

That means Thailand has reported more new COVID cases in the past month than it had in the prior three and a half month period of time.

 

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The daily updates from the Ministry of Public Health on Thailand's standing versus world countries and its Asian regional peer countries, ranked by cumulative reported COVID cases. Thailand's ranking moved down one position to 106th in the world with the latest update.

 

 

 

 

[brewsterbudgen]

Good news to see the trend going down, and the fatality rate still low.  Makes you wonder why they still felt the need to close open-air public parks and swimming pools! 

[edwardandtubs]

2 hours ago, DLock said:

Weekend factor.

 

True numbers will resume in a few days...

This is a factor in the UK but has never been so in Thailand. I know the Doomsday merchants screaming for a lockdown are going to be feeling a bit humiliated but cases are clearly declining now. Even the restrictions recently announced in Bangkok that come into force today are unnecessary as cases are already declining.

[Excel]

Just now, brewsterbudgen said:

Good news to see the trend going down, and the fatality rate still low.  Makes you wonder why they still felt the need to close open-air public parks and swimming pools! 

One swallow a summer does not make

[edwardandtubs]

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Good news to see the trend going down, and the fatality rate still low.  Makes you wonder why they still felt the need to close open-air public parks and swimming pools! 

Indeed. And they're spraying beaches with disinfectant even though not a single cluster or even transmission has been linked to a beach or park in Thailand.

[KhaoNiaw]

6 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:

This is a factor in the UK but has never been so in Thailand. I know the Doomsday merchants screaming for a lockdown are going to be feeling a bit humiliated but cases are clearly declining now. Even the restrictions recently announced in Bangkok that come into force today are unnecessary as cases are already declining.

Thailand has consistently posted lower numbers on Mondays ("no need to panic on Saturdays or to celebrate on Mondays")

 

[brewsterbudgen]

  Do you think closing open-air public parks is "necessary"?

Edited April 26, 2021 by onthedarkside
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[Excel]

15 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 

 Do you think closing open-air public parks is "necessary"?

What I think is irrelevant. It is the advice of scientists and doctors that is relevant...

[edwardandtubs]

4 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

Thailand has consistently posted lower numbers on Mondays ("no need to panic on Saturdays or to celebrate on Mondays")

 

But last Saturday and Sunday the new cases declined so that "trend" had already been broken.

[KhaoNiaw]

1 minute ago, edwardandtubs said:

But last Saturday and Sunday the new cases declined so that "trend" had already been broken.

That may be true but not enough data yet. As the man says what happens across this week will show where it's going. 

[edwardandtubs]

13 minutes ago, Excel said:

What I think is irrelevant. It is the advice of scientists and doctors that is relevant...

You're just making stuff up as you go along now. Scientists and doctors don't say anything of the sort.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/how-the-beach-super-spreader-myth-can-inform-uks-future-covid-response

According to Prof Mark Woolhouse, an epidemiologist at Edinburgh University who sits on the government’s SPI-M committee, the chance of a super-spreader event among the crowds that turned up from Bournemouth to Southend was minimal in theory – and nonexistent in practice.

 

“Over the summer we were treated to all this on the television news, pictures of crowded beaches, and there was an outcry about this,” he told MPs. “There were no outbreaks linked to public beaches. There’s never been a Covid-19 outbreak linked to a beach, ever, anywhere in the world, to the best of my knowledge.”

 

[Pattaya Spotter]

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Per Richard Barrow:

 

"Starting today, Surat Thani (which includes Koh Samui, Koh Phangnan and Koh Tao) have started to shut down businesses similar to Bangkok. If you come from the red zone you must do quarantine. You must wear a mask. And you are asked to stay home from 10pm-4am"

 

https://www.facebook.com/richardbarrowthailand/posts/320279376124999

 

 

 

 

Nobody has to ask me, that's past my bedtime ???? 

[Excel]

11 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:

You're just making stuff up as you go along now. Scientists and doctors don't say anything of the sort.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/19/how-the-beach-super-spreader-myth-can-inform-uks-future-covid-response

According to Prof Mark Woolhouse, an epidemiologist at Edinburgh University who sits on the government’s SPI-M committee, the chance of a super-spreader event among the crowds that turned up from Bournemouth to Southend was minimal in theory – and nonexistent in practice.

 

“Over the summer we were treated to all this on the television news, pictures of crowded beaches, and there was an outcry about this,” he told MPs. “There were no outbreaks linked to public beaches. There’s never been a Covid-19 outbreak linked to a beach, ever, anywhere in the world, to the best of my knowledge.”

 

Oh dear, can't read or won't read and his reputation must be tarnished.

One instance that comes to mind with hardly any research is  https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-variants-of-concern-covid-19-cases-surge-spring-break-2021-4  . And by the way Miami Beach is a large area and so is the beach and at the time the irresponsible beach parties were widely reported on internationally

Edited April 26, 2021 by Excel

[Pattaya Spotter]

31 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:

Indeed. And they're spraying beaches with disinfectant even though not a single cluster or even transmission has been linked to a beach or park in Thailand.

Ridiculous hygiene theatre...all national health authorities state beaches and the outdoors are the SAFEST places to be if physical distancing measures are observed. I believe there has not been a single documented case of virus transmission outdoors (with distancing followed).

[edwardandtubs]

2 minutes ago, Excel said:

Oh dear, can't read or won't read and his reputation must be tarnished.

One instance that comes to mind with hardly any research is  https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-variants-of-concern-covid-19-cases-surge-spring-break-2021-4

There's absolutely nothing in that article that proves anyone caught covid-19 on a beach. It specifically refers to "Florida party spots", a clear reference to bars and nightclubs, which we all know spread covid-19.

[Excel]

1 minute ago, edwardandtubs said:

There's absolutely nothing in that article that proves anyone caught covid-19 on a beach. It specifically refers to "Florida party spots", a clear reference to bars and nightclubs, which we all know spread covid-19.

Clearly you did'nt read the links in it !!

[ourmanflint]

3 hours ago, robblok said:

Down again.. lets see tomorrow maybe it will go on like this. To early to tell weekends are always different. But it looks positive.

Seriously?? Thailand is not special, this virus will do what it has done in every country it has been found, it will explode, and that has not even begun yet

[DavisH]

2 hours ago, DLock said:

Weekend factor.

 

True numbers will resume in a few days...

I don't see that much in our data. We still had high numbers last saturday and sunday (and actually lower in the followign 2 days). Look at the numbers from Texas for a weekend effect. 

[ourmanflint]

37 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

  Do you think closing open-air public parks is "necessary"?

No. That is a big mistake, people need safe access to outdoor exercise

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The English language version of today's government COVID news briefing. About 16 minutes.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/videos/302083314625872/

 

And the nearly 30 presentation slides that were part of this morning's Thai language update by the Ministry of Public Health:

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/313352756949722

 

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

https://www.facebook.com/OICDDC/posts/3900997033354194

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"The Thai Ministry of Public Health will propose to the CCSA subcommittee, today or tomorrow, that they increase restrictions in six Red Zone provinces, including Bangkok, where cumulative COVID-19 infections since April 1st exceed 500 cases."

 

https://www.facebook.com/ThaiPBSWorld/posts/4351276871584276

 

 

"Nurses at a hospital in Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat have had to enter quarantine, after a COVID-19 infected patient allegedly refused to disclose their true chronology."

 

https://www.facebook.com/ThaiPBSWorld/posts/4351183281593635

 

 

[Osthos]

8 minutes ago, DavisH said:

I don't see that much in our data. We still had high numbers last saturday and sunday (and actually lower in the followign 2 days). Look at the numbers from Texas for a weekend effect. 

 

The dip in cases for Sundays (revealed Mondays) is there for Thailand, at least for the past three weeks. But for whatever reason it's not as pronounced as for example the US or European countries.

 

Source: Google daily Covid cases

[webfact]

Tougher measures ahead for Bangkok and 5 other provinces as 2,048 new COVID-19 cases are recorded today

 

 

The Thai Ministry of Public Health will propose to the CCSA subcommittee, today or tomorrow, that they increase restrictions in six Red Zone provinces, including Bangkok, where cumulative COVID-19 infections since April 1st exceed 500 cases.

 

To make sure that new virus variants, carried by people arriving from abroad, do not spread out of quarantine facilities, Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong, director-general of Disease Control Department, said that the Public Health Ministry will propose that the CCSA subcommittee extend the quarantine period from 10 to 14 days and require all those under quarantine to remain in their rooms during their entire isolation period.

 

Dr. Opart also said today (Monday) that the more than 2,000 infections per day for the past several days is a matter of serious concern and the Ministry of Public Health finds it necessary to tighten preventive measures in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chon Buri, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan and Prachuap Khiri Khan.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/tougher-measures-ahead-for-bangkok-and-5-other-provinces-as-2048-new-covid-19-cases-are-recorded-today/

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

:Per The Thai Enquirer:

 

Petition for Anutin’s resignation reaches 150,000 names, after an official campaign to support the health minister backfires.

 

Netizens and the opposition parties are calling for Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to resign following the alleged mismanagements of the latest wave of the coronavirus outbreak, and a backfired government communications campaign.

 

The third wave of the outbreak has led to more than 26,000 cases in just the past month. The surge in daily cases to more than 2,000 has led to a shortage of hospital beds, the government confirmed last week.

...

The shortages of vaccines and beds have prompted a campaign in change.org, หมอไม่ทน or “doctors will no longer tolerate”, to call for Anutin to resign. The petition had gathered more than 150,000 online names by Monday morning."

 

(more)

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/26753/calls-increase-for-anutin-to-resign/

 

 

 

[meltonpie]

Just maybe Thailands fortunes are really changing for the better?

One of the new  "imported" cases in quarantine is from China it seems.

China who with a population of 1,439,323,776 reports on average just ten new cases per day.

There is more chance of winning the lottery.