Thailand reports new daily record of 31 virus deaths, 2,041 cases

[2009]

8 hours ago, anchadian said:

https://www.thaienquirer.com/27079/authorities-warn-that-khlong-toey-could-become-a-disaster-zone/

Authorities warn that Khlong Toey could become a ‘disaster zone'

ByCod Satrusayang

May 3, 2021

 

Thailand’s Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the Ministry of Public Health are racing against time to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the Klong Toey slums, officials in both organizations said Monday.

 

 

Where exactly are the slums in Klong Toei?

 

I have never noticed them. It very inner city.

[Danderman123]

2 minutes ago, anchadian said:

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1389181415653216256

 

Thai News Reports

 

@ThaiNewsReports

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Samut Prakan health officials have discovered a new cluster in Phra Samut Chedi District. In just one company, they have found 128 people infected with #COVID19 #Thailand

 

This is not in Klong Toey, it’s on the other side of the river.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

11 minutes ago, 2009 said:

 

Where exactly are the slums in Klong Toei?

 

I have never noticed them. It very inner city.

 

They're talking about areas of BKK generally south of Rama IV road, starting at the corner of Asoke/Ratchadapisek where the Khlong Toei fresh market is, and then heading east toward Phra Kanong.

[Blumpie]

19 minutes ago, DUNROAMIN said:

Reopen for what??? Tourists,  I dont think so.

I think everyone with functioning common sense agrees with you.  

Good god, a pandemic is raging worldwide and they still brag and blather about numbers.  

[anchadian]

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/interest-in-moving-out-of-thailand-takes-internet-by-storm/

 

Interest in moving out of Thailand takes Internet by storm

 

In just two days, over half a million Thais have joined a new Facebook group called “Let’s Move Abroad”, amid increasing criticism of the Thai government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and political issues.

 

(The last para of this report looks like old news or a misprint - missing a 0?)

[metisdead]

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Every day I follow the news on this topic, and I can't help but come away amazed and impressed at the level of effort the health officials put into tracking and tracing the various COVID clusters, who's come into contact with and infected whom, and in what settings, etc etc...

 

I also can't help but thinking -- if the government had only put just that much effort into acquiring a timely vaccine supply for the Thai people instead of waiting for months on a locally produced/connected supply, all the ongoing tracking and tracing of COVID clusters might not have been so necessary.

 

 

[gunderhill]

4 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Yes many hardworking Thais enjoyed their ONE week off per year...some even had the temerity to travel to visit family and friends. I think it's a little too easy for comfortable working and retired expats to blame the Thais...and it's the Thais who are paying for it. (I don't recall seeing any foreign nationals among the dead...there may be a few but not many.)

Many of  us flangs  worked  hard for 40+  years and I havent seen my 93  year  old  Mother for 2  years  now due to covid............Surely  Thailand has  SKype,  Line, whats  app ( sarcasm on) Doesn't stop me speaking to my Mother  daily.'

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Every day I follow the news on this topic, and I can't help but come away amazed and impressed at the level of effort the health officials put into tracking and tracing the various COVID clusters, who's come into contact with and infected whom, and in what settings, etc etc...

 

I also can't help but thinking -- if the government had only put just that much effort into acquiring a timely vaccine supply for the Thai people instead of waiting for months on a locally produced/connected supply, all the ongoing tracking and tracing of COVID clusters might not have been so necessary.

 

 

Well, two points.

Thailand was destined to be slower than the "rich" countries with vaccines but they didn't need to be this slow. 

That's a global problem.

Also Thailand was doing very, very well until they weren't.  So I guess the tragic lack of urgency on the vaccines might be related to hubris and taking their own positive press releases too literally. 

[ExpatOilWorker]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1389157527804280834

 

 

It would be easier and more efficient if a pilot hand-carry a handful of vaccines back to Thailand. 

Maybe an idea for THAI Airways,  it is probably more lucrative than selling doughnuts?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

Well, two points.

Thailand was destined to be slower than the "rich" countries with vaccines but they didn't need to be this slow. 

That's a global problem.

Also Thailand was doing very, very well until they weren't.  So I guess the tragic lack of urgency on the vaccines might be related to hubris and taking their own positive press releases too literally. 

 

And / or...  they didn't want to outright pay some foreign entity a lot of money to buy their vaccines when they figured they could end up producing and selling (including to other countries) their own version.

[Kwasaki]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Temple workers carry a coffin containing a body of a man who died from the corona-virus disease (COVID-19) during his funeral at a temple in Bangkok

Died at his Funeral. ????

[elliss]

8 hours ago, DLock said:

The past weekend Thailand overtook the UK on new infections and deaths.

 

The UK have now given at least 1 vaccine shot to over 50% of the population, and are still doing over 1 million tests per day or around 7million tests per week. Thailand are at about 1.5% of the population and doing 10-15,000 tests per day.

 

Given the UK had daily infections of up to 67,000 per day and highest daily deaths of 1,823 on Jan 20th this year, who would had ever have though that Thailand numbers would ever be greater than the UK given the head start they had. Thailand's complacency and basking in early glory will cost this country immeasurably.

 

Source : https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

 

 

7 hours ago, Snig27 said:

Incompetence, corruption and nepotism . 

 

 Much the same as the UK   Goverment / establishment .

    Nothing new..

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

And / or...  they didn't want to outright pay some foreign entity a lot of money to buy their vaccines when they figured they could end up producing and selling (including to other countries) their own version.

Yes but I still think that they didn't think things would ever get this out of control (yes it could get much much worse) so they felt they had the luxury of time to perhaps prioritize other goals than speed and volume. 

[wensiensheng]

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (CAAT) had issued a new guideline recommending stricter COVID-19 control measures for all domestic flights, following the detection of new infections linked with seven recent flights to and from Phuket airport.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10157991002692050

 

This is just nonsense in several respects:

 

1. what difference does the flight time make to Covid? It could be argued that flights between 11pm and 4am are less crowded, so safer!

 

2. hasn’t it been debunked over and over again that if someone does not have a fever, they can still have Covid. Asymptomatic! So temp checks are a veneer of safety, nothing else.

 

3. I was on flights prior to the 3rd wave, social distancing was non existent, on the plane, in the bus taking passengers to the plane, in the departure lounge. Because at the end of the day, how do you social distance when every passenger is headed for the same steel tube ( or whatever they make planes out of).

 

ever since the 3rd wave started, planes have been a no no for me, regardless of what the government may say

[DavisH]

31 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

And / or...  they didn't want to outright pay some foreign entity a lot of money to buy their vaccines when they figured they could end up producing and selling (including to other countries) their own version.

It was also mentioned that there was not such a rush because after a year the vaccines may be outdated and not suitable for new strains. We will have a very major problem if the Indian strain gets there, as it has in Nepal. I see a path from India to Bangladesh to Myanmar to Thailand. No with the coup in Myanmar we are not getting reliable case numbers from there. 

[DavisH]

4 hours ago, Andycoops said:

So smug last year not testing as recommended, now they are testing and guess what?

Last year? Not one turned up to hospital and tested positive for covid? That went on for most of the year until December. What does that tell you? Now we have close to 2000 a day testing positive, and most are cming to hospitals sick. Where were those people all last year? 

[peter48]

As we predicted this variant is very transmissible and as such hits all age groups as it reaches more people. It is possible that it is not necessarily more nasty than other variants just better at spreading. . 

 

However, Thailand must catch up with its vaccine programme and learn not just from its faster SE Asian neighbours but from Israel, UK, USA and now EU who have rolled out the effective vaccines ( Moderna, Pfizer & Astra Zeneca).

 

Thailand needs these vaccines urgently so it can get its full economy working again not least tourism.   

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1389181415653216256

 

Thai News Reports

 

@ThaiNewsReports

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Samut Prakan health officials have discovered a new cluster in Phra Samut Chedi District. In just one company, they have found 128 people infected with #COVID19 #Thailand

 

Yet another cluster 128 people in just one company, all signs now are that this is now so widely spread in Bangkok that its containable unless targeted lockdowns are put in place quickly

[ThailandRyan]

2 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Lots of people die at home.  It happens so fast with some they either can't summon help or don't know how serious their condition is.

How is the re-opening bragging going Thailand?  

Still on Track for July according to the timetable and TAT, no changes, moving forward.

[GeorgeEboy]

10 hours ago, robblok said:

Number is going up again, slowly but going up. I wonder how bad it would have been without the measures in place.

 

Too bad that this happend but letting Songkran happen was not a good idea. Though i doubt it could have been stopped, but the PM actively promoted it.

 

I wonder how long these numbers will stay this high, as i doubt measures will be relaxed unless serious progress has been made.

With Covid, numbers have gone up for a while before they came down. Maybe Thailand can buck the trend????

[ThailandRyan]

There was another one where the man got of of his motorbike, sat down on the curb and died.  Very similar pictures today as well, with them sanitizing everything in sight.  You just can not make this stuff up.  It tells me they are not getting tested.  I know that two of todays 31 deaths had not been tested but were given a covid test and determined to be positive.

[GeorgeEboy]

2 hours ago, Blumpie said:

Lots of people die at home.  It happens so fast with some they either can't summon help or don't know how serious their condition is.

How is the re-opening bragging going Thailand?  

Yes, I know of a guy working the same job as me in a different city who woke up and said his chest was very heavy. By the end of the day he was dead. It progressed that fast. I know, I know, I know, was he fat, high BP, asthmatic, over 65 etc, etc, etc. The fact is he died in less than 24 hours of become very sick. Just remember there is nothing stopping Thailand from becoming an India except a robust (right) vaccination plan. 

[Swimfan]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

There was another one where the man got of of his motorbike, sat down on the curb and dies.  Very similar pictures today as well, with them sanitizing everything in sight.  You just can not make this stuff up.  It tells me they are not getting tested.  I know that two of todays 31 deaths had not been tested but were given a covid test and determined to be positive.

They should be begging for anyone with the mildest symptoms to come forward for tests if they truly want to get a grip on it. But sadly it seams to be more about the cost of testing. 

[Neal182]

Klong Toey out of control. It will be everywhere in BKK. Just waiting for the next clusters to be found. 

[ozbanglamung]

278 dead since the pandemic began and the world is ending, 

26,800  have died on the roads here over the same period (and that only includes those who died at the scene) and nobody gives a <deleted> 

 

[ThailandRyan]

4 minutes ago, ozbanglamung said:

278 dead since the pandemic began and the world is ending, 

26,800  have died on the roads here over the same period (and that only includes those who died at the scene) and nobody gives a <deleted> 

 

Tell me its different in your country as far as the traffic fatalities.  We tried hard in the US to reduce road deaths but it is unfortunately a fact of life.  Covid is new, well 15 months old or so, and a new fact of life with many procedures and steps that can be taken to minimize it, however this government dropped the ball.

[onthedarkside]

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[Patong2021]

9 hours ago, realfunster said:

 

Well, I am most definitely not a Prayut fanboy, and I can see no reason why you are conflating an unlikeable military government with the handling of the pandemic.

 

As at today, by any objective measure, I have been extremely happy to have been in Thailand for the past 15 months of the pandemic.

 

We have just overtaken the UK, who had more than 2,500 cases per day for an eight month period between September 20 and April 21.

 

However, lock downs are in place, case numbers are stable and deaths will continue to rise for 1-2 weeks due to to delay between infection and severe symptoms.

 

Let’s see what happens from here...

 

India had the same  assumption and  we see the result.

Fortunately for Thailand, vaccines are on the way and compliance will be high when they get there.

 

You use the word "lockdown" and that is really not the case in Thailand. The curfew starts at 11 pm and it is rather useless. To be effective it must be no later than  8-9 PM.  The number of visitors in shopping malls and retail outlets must be limited to avoid overcrowding. Unfortunately, the poor low wage workers still rely on crowdwd mass transit and live in high density living conditions. As we see from communities that have similar like London, Mumbai, Toronto, New York, only true lockdown can work. More importantly, regional travel must be reduced. Factories and workplaces still do not have effective prevention measures. The emphasis on wearing mask while at the beach alone, or outside and distanced, while ignoring the more serious density of people and unsafe workplace conditions is idiotic.

In consideration of limited measures, I do not believe we will see any sharp reduction for some time.   I do expect that Klong Thoei will be mass quarantined if  spread is not contained. Then we will know  Thailand is in panic mode.

 

 

[georgey]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

These are the very people who live in close quarters, have little money and will certainly shy away from quarantine... watch the numbers rockets.

And a spokesman from the Klong Toei public health office came up with this sensitive, sympathetic, maybe slightly understated little gem:

“Residents of Klong Toei slums usually live together in a crowded space and mostly have careers that are not compatible with work-from-home arrangements,” said the office.