Thailand reports 2,636 COVID-19 cases, 25 new deaths

[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, robblok said:

Just curious what your point is. I mean this just proves that the virus ratio stays the same its not getting worse its not getting any better either

Proves to me the low testing is just the same 

[kynikoi]

2 hours ago, anchadian said:

Street hawkers risk COVID-19 infection to make a living

Despite the new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen many more cases and deaths than last year, many street hawkers and vendors are still out and about in Bangkok to earn money, even if it means putting themselves at risk of getting infected.

 

One such hawker told Thai PBS that she still has to sell her traditional Thai dessert, called “Khanom Tom” or coconut balls, to make a living. She said, because of the pandemic, however, she only sells half of the 10 kilograms she used to sell per day.

 

“My income is much lower than before, because people are too scared to go out. Before the pandemic, I managed to earn 1,000 baht a day. Now I earn only 500. That’s down by half. I’m also scared of being infected, because I’m out on the street, but I have to do it.”

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/street-hawkers-risk-covid-19-infection-to-make-a-living/

 

Poor guy

 

Actually, if you take the right precautions I think he's far better off on the street than in a food court or in some office.

[Ian223]

17 minutes ago, Fex Bluse said:

 

If I give them the benefit of the doubt (which is probably not reasonable), it may be that their testing capacity is beyond the 2K but their ability to deliver test results might be limited to approximately 2,000. 

 

 

Definitely possible. I really want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but their previous track record makes that pretty difficult. 

[sungod]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

With all these impromptu field hospitals being set up, I wonder who takes the official count of new admissions and releases to the CCSA for the totals.

 

MoPH of whichever province the field hospital is in I would imagine?

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, sungod said:

 

MoPH of whichever province the field hospital is in I would imagine?

Possibly?

[anchadian]

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40001061

 

There are nearly 8,000 beds available across Thailand to accommodate Covid-19 patients as the number of infections continues spiking in the country

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Wednesday that there are 7,669 beds available for new patients.

 

Total: 9,655

In use: 1,986

Available: 7,669

 

Meanwhile, four field hospitals – two in Chiang Mai and one each in Udon Thani and Trang – have been closed as the Covid-19 situation in these provinces has eased.

• Maejo University, Chiang Mai (closed on May 7)

• Chiang Mai University (closed on May 10)

• Udon Thani Rajabhat University (closed on May 16)

• Prince of Songkhla University, Trang (closed on May 18)

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by anchadian

[Bkk Brian]

This was from 3 days ago so numbers will be higher:

 

The other side to this prison outbreak, the deaths that will come as a result

 

Matichon reporting that out of 10,226 inmates infected with #COVID19, 63 are in a serious condition, 884 in moderate condition and 9,279 in a safe condition. No inmates have died from covid. There are 32 wardens infected. 15 have already recovered

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1394300641502060546

Edited May 20, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[robblok]

21 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Proves to me the low testing is just the same 

Proves to me you have no clue.

 

IF the number of people go up then the infection rate goes up by the same amount of tests. So as long as they keep testing the same amount of people you can compare numbers.

This just shows that the infection rate/spread is about the same

[anchadian]

 

Prize and discount incentives for registrants of COVID Vaccines

 

KHON KAEN, May 20 (TNA) – The Muang Phon municipal office in Khon Kaen’s Phon district will organize lucky draws of gold ornament prizes and offer discounts at local restaurants and shops to those who registered for COVID-19 vaccinations.

 

Muang Phon mayor Kittichote Triamwetwuthikrai presided over a signing ceremony of the vaccination promotion agreement by about 30 local restaurateurs, vendors and suppliers who are offering discounts on their products and services.

 

The mayor also received three gold necklaces worth about 21,000 baht from donors. The necklaces are prizes for lucky vaccine recipients in Muang Phon municipality. The discounts and the gold necklaces are incentives to encourage as many local people to receive COVID-19 vaccines as possible.

 

https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-700289

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by anchadian

[anchadian]

Let's go, Khun Loong! 100 people over 70 years old receive their AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccines today at Chulabhorn Royal Academy, on the first day shots are available for the elderly at this venue. #KE #Thailand

 

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1395248708367765506

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by anchadian

[jacko45k]

4 minutes ago, robblok said:

IF the number of people go up then the infection rate goes up by the same amount of tests. So as long as they keep testing the same amount of people you can compare numbers.

Yes but what is being reported daily  is the number of new positive infections,( and deaths.)

The infection number is not represented as a percentage (of tests) and is very much limited by testing numbers and regime.

It is the best we got though. 

By your last sentence, if only 100 tests were being taken daily, we could obviously not have more than 100 new infections. 

It is flawed, the best we got though.

[jacko45k]

7 minutes ago, anchadian said:

The Muang Phon municipal office in Khon Kaen’s Phon district will organize lucky draws of gold ornament prizes

Buriram had a better idea, get vaccinated or go to jail.

[Bkk Brian]

5 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Let's go, Khun Loong! 100 people over 70 years old receive their AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccines today at Chulabhorn Royal Academy, on the first day shots are available for the elderly at this venue. #KE #Thailand

 

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1395248708367765506

 

Finally, a priority group in the general public. Lets get them all vaccinated as soon as possible

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1395251266620592131

 

Official #COVID19 update in #Thailand on Thursday: Since 1 April 2021

90,722 people infected (+58 imported cases & +2,578 local cases)

609 dead +25

42,246 in care

1,213 in serious condition

2,268 discharged from care

 

[anchadian]

405 on ventilators

 

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1395251136324521986

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Chart of daily new COVID case numbers for Thailand since the start of the current third wave outbreak at the beginning of April.

 

The blue bars show self referred cases, the yellow bars show cases found from outreach testing, and the gray bars show prison-based cases.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/328906962060968

 

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1395252306665361409

 

Today there are 25 deaths in #Thailand: 18 males and 7 females Median age is 64 (41-94 years)

Most deaths in

 

Bangkok (11)

Pathum Thani (3)

and Chiang Mai (2)

 

.Nine provinces had one death each 13 infected from family members

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Provinces breakdown for Thursday shows only two provinces had more than 100 new COVID cases (Bangkok with 1,001 and Phetchaburi with 124), while five provinces had 51 to 100 cases.

 

Twenty four provinces had no new cases at all, while another 33 provinces reported only one to 10 cases.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/thaimoph/posts/312615157015061

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Breakdown of prison cases by day and province showing 13,597 total prison COVID cases reported in the past week, including the 671 new prison cases reported Thursday. The provinces listed below, in order, are Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Nonthaburi, and Chachoengsao.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/328906962060968

 

[anchadian]

Of the 2,636 new cases that were found in the past 24 hours:

 

- 1,385 were found via tests at medical facilities

- 522 via proactive tests at known clusters

- 671 via proactive tests at prisons

- 58 in quarantine facilities

- 25 fatalities

#WhatsHappeningInThailand #โควิด19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1395253686104776709

 

[robblok]

9 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Yes but what is being reported daily  is the number of new positive infections,( and deaths.)

The infection number is not represented as a percentage (of tests) and is very much limited by testing numbers and regime.

It is the best we got though. 

By your last sentence, if only 100 tests were being taken daily, we could obviously not have more than 100 new infections. 

It is flawed, the best we got though.

Its not about infected people but infection rate.

 

If you have 100 tests a day and first day you get 20 and in the end you get 100. Then you know the rate prevalence of infection has increased. So assuming the Thai government is doing the same amount of testing all the time we can say that its not getting any worse. 

 

If the positive rate does not change a lot then it means that its under control if it goes up with the same amount of tests we are in trouble. If we double the amount of tests and we get only 20% more positives it shows things are improving. Its all relative. 

 

We don't need to know the exact number of people we only need to know if it is getting worse or not. Seems that some people want to see high numbers. I just want to see  if it gets worse or better. The numbers itself are not important.

 

100.000 tests 10.000 infected or 10.000 tests and 2000 infected. The first has a higher number of infected but is still preferable over the second example. (assuming test are spread out equally ect ect)

 

 

[anchadian]

Signing up for jab can win you a calf up North

 

Residents of Chiang Mai’s Mae Chaem district will get the chance to win a calf once they register for their Covid jab.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40001092

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Bangkok province report for the day, 1,001 new COVID cases, 11 new deaths, and 30,535 official COVID cases cumulatively since the start of April. (The cases and graph chart below only reflect general population cases, and not prison cases).

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/328906962060968

 

Also, a graphic showing Bangkok's daily COVID case totals on the second line below for the past week, May 14-20, along with its cumulative total since April 1. The first line shows the same info for Thailand's domestic case numbers including prison cases.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/328906962060968

 

[Rimmer]

Some baiting/troll posts have been removed

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1395255623101550594

 

Out of the 1,907 local cases, most in:

 

Bangkok - 1,001

Phetchaburi - 124

Nonthaburi - 99

Pathum Thani - 89

Chonburi - 65

Samut Prakan - 61

Samut Sakhon - 57

Chanthaburi - 44

Nakhon Pathom - 38

Ayutthaya - 30

 

[jacko45k]

8 minutes ago, robblok said:

100.000 tests 10.000 infected or 10.000 tests and 2000 infected. The first has a higher number of infected but is still preferable over the second example. (assuming test are spread out equally ect ect)

I appreciate it is the change in numbers that tell us where we are and where we are going.

But the way things get done here your idea gets slewed. For example the recent mass testing of jail inmates cause horrific jumps in numbers... that is most certainly a change and without the explanation provided I would have been pulling up the drawbridge. 

Devil is in the detail, statistics are often used to misrepresent and one really needs to know more than what is often supplied.

 

I look cynically at many statements and try to parse what I am being told.

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by jacko45k

[anchadian]

Over 78 percent of the inmates (2,925) at Bangkok Remand Prison tested positive for COVID-19. Other prisons with high percentages of infected inmates include Thonburi (71 percent / 2,837), Central Women's (34 percent / 1,522), and Klong Prem (16 percent / 1,648).

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1395257736359673862

 

[Danderman123]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Proves to me the low testing is just the same 

Regardless of sample size, if the positivity ratio remains the same, then it means that the epidemic isn’t spiking.

 

[robblok]

3 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I appreciate it is the change in numbers that tell us where we are and where we are going.

But the way things get done here your idea gets slewed. For example the recent mass testing of jail inmates cause horrific jumps in numbers... that is most certainly a change and without the explanation provided I would have been pulling up the drawbridge. 

Devil is in the detail, statistics are often used to misrepresent and one really needs to know more than what is often supplied.

 

I look cynically at many statements and try to parse what I am being told.

 

Jacko, that is why i look at the numbers outside of prisons as those are the ones that have been measured all the time. I doubt they increased or decreased testing outside the prison system.

 

Of course my idea is not perfect but it gives us some indication of the infection rate. Its far from perfect because numbers are reported that should have been reported on previous days and so on and so on. But simply testing more won't help unless you do mass testing and they cannot. They don't have the money nor do they have the infrastructure. Also it could be a massive waste of money for a poor country like Thailand. 

 

Sure id love to see them test everyone at once but that is just not realistic. So all we can do is look at the infection percentage and draw conclusions (with risks)f rom that. Im operating under the assumption that the testing strategies of the government have not changed the last couple of months. 

 

The fact that numbers are staying the same or similar all the time shows us that its not increasing. That comes mainly from the walk in tests of course.

 

Anyway not perfect but best we have.

[robblok]

Just now, Danderman123 said:

Regardless of sample size, if the positivity ratio remains the same, then it means that the epidemic isn’t spiking.

 

If the tests are carried out the same... the walk ins tell the best story. Not the mass testing in hotspots. Too bad they don't split those numbers.