Thailand reports 2,455 COVID-19 cases, 41 more deaths

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FILE PHOTO: A doctor and ICU nurses wearing personal protection equipment (PPE) treat a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, May 11, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Thailand on Wednesday (May 26) reported 2,455 new COVID-19 cases and 41 additional deaths.

 

● 1,976 new infections
● 479 prison / prison infections
 
Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 137,894 with 873 deaths.

 

The news comes as vaccine hesitancy has risen sharply in Thailand opinion polls show, just weeks away from the start of a mass inoculation programme.

 

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[Bkk Brian]

Thailand COVID-19 deaths hit another single-day high with 41 fatalities on Wednesday. A total of 2,455 new confirmed cases were discovered in the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 137,894. Today's new cases include 479 cases reported in prisons.

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1397359260531449859

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Thailand's record daily COVID death toll of 41 reported Wednesday broke the prior high that had been 35 deaths reported on May 18, and then 34 deaths on May 12.

 

The news came despite Thailand recently reporting current numbers of COVID patients hospitalized in critical condition (about 1,200) and the share of those on ventilators (about 400) declining somewhat from highs set earlier in the month.

 

The deaths report also dulled otherwise good news that the country's latest number of daily COVID cases in the general population excluding prison cases, 1,976 reported Wednesday, was the country's lowest number in a week and down from the comparable 2,344 cases reported Tuesday.

 

Such upward and downward swings in COVID case reporting have been commonplace in Thailand for reasons that aren't clear. Though Wednesday's general population cases number of 1,976 was the country's first below 2,000 since 1,965 cases reported May 20.

 

When adding in reported new prison cases, Thailand's total daily new COVID case counts now have been above 3,000 for four of the past seven days. And the number of prisons cases is likely to spike again tomorrow, as corrections officials last night reported a large tally of new cases not yet included in today's national report.

 

Prior to Wednesday's report, Thailand's daily tally of total new COVID cases had been regularly bouncing in a range between above 2,600 and below 3,500 for the past week, as shown below, with the blue bars showing self-referred cases, the yellow bars cases found thru outreach testing and the gray prison cases.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/332785071673157

 

 

[mickyr55]

Not to worry Mr Anutin says there's enough vaccine for everyone to have 3 shots if necessary, oh and the earth is flat and the moon is made of cheese. 

[ThailandRyan]

41 fatalities is a new high, and is a worry as to what's to come as deaths lag cases.  The higher numbers we have of cases and on life support make this a grim prospect.  Stay safe, and maybe there will be a vaccine coming along soon, since the vaccines on hand here are few and far between.....

[anchadian]

The number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia crossed 3.87 million, with 20,682 new cases reported on Tuesday, slightly lower than Monday’s tally of 20,931. #COVID19 #ASEAN #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40001300

[Bkk Brian]

Will South-east Asia be swamped by Covid-19, like in South Asia?

 

In Thailand, hospital beds are quickly filling up after infections, first seeded in some exclusive entertainment outlets in Bangkok, resulted in the country's highest-ever number of daily cases in early April. The number spiked again after Songkran, the Thai new year.

Since then, the caseload has crept upwards and has more than quadrupled to nearly 135,000 as authorities struggled to contain outbreaks in overcrowded prisons, markets and camps housing construction workers.

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/will-south-east-asia-be-swamped-by-covid-19-like-in-south-asia

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Thailand's habit of bulk reporting new COVID cases in prisons not when they are actually tested and confirmed but instead grouping the together into mass single day reports has skewed the country's recent rolling seven-day average of daily COVID cases.

 

The graph below shows the seven-day cases average dropping markedly in the latest data through May 24, but the reason is more a statistical anomaly. The reason is one of the country's bulk reports of new prison cases, 6,853 reported on May 17, dropped out of the latest seven-day average. But that number did not represent a single day's tally of new prison cases, but instead, an accumulation of them, distorting the actual daily average.

 

 

 

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand?country=~THA#what-is-the-daily-number-of-confirmed-cases

 

 

[onthedarkside]

Several posts have been removed, including one commenting on a fellow forum member, and two others for being off-topic.

 

[RotBenz8888]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The news comes as vaccine hesitancy has risen sharply in Thailand

Would probably have looked differently, if they had Pfizer and Moderna to offer. 

[Fromas]

7 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Would probably have looked differently, if they had Pfizer and Moderna to offer. 

 

Unfortunately, vaccine hesitancy occurs even in places with "better" vaccines, fed by over-politicization, anti-science, rampant rumors and trenchant tribalism.

 

 

[ikke1959]

No problem.. we have everything under control.. soon we will vaccinate you.. when and with what that is a question but we aim to start at 7 June and we will see how many days we have vaccines for but we are not sure that they are all effective enough. Later this year there will be more to come, but we must test, approve and make a committee first for it.. So probably at the end of the year we know more. Please be patient ......... We will bring only happiness to the country

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

Hua Hin:Covid outbreak at second pineapple factory - 42 cases but health authorities say it's "under control"

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1218365-hua-hincovid-outbreak-at-second-pineapple-factory-42-cases-but-health-authorities-say-its-under-control/

 

[ThailandRyan]

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Hua Hin:Covid outbreak at second pineapple factory - 42 cases but health authorities say it's "under control"

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1218365-hua-hincovid-outbreak-at-second-pineapple-factory-42-cases-but-health-authorities-say-its-under-control/

 

Dole Pineapple Factory.

[Fex Bluse]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Such upward and downward swings in COVID case reporting have been commonplace in Thailand for reasons that aren't clear.

 

Clear to me and expected. Clear and accurate and honest reporting would have been a shock. 

 

People just don't understand Thailand, or Asia for that matter. Westerners generally assume everyone is like us. It's arrogance, really. 

 

[anchadian]

Yesterday pm, I posted the Dept of Corrections in prison infections:

 

Department of Corrections are reporting 1,429 new cases & one more death. There are now 15,914 prisoners in care which is 5.10% of the prison population. Most cases today are in Nonthaburi Prison (1,052) & Thonburi Remand Prison (339). 74 wardens are in care #Thailand

 

Today's update is only showing 479 and this has happened on previous reporting by the DofC.

 

Barrow has only just latched on to these unexplained discrepancies.

 

There’s something strange going on with the reporting of cases in prisons. Yesterday the Department of Corrections reported 1,429 cases but today CCSA only have 470

22 May: 842 vs. 605

23 May: 523 vs. 460

24 May: 499 vs. 206 

25 May: 628 vs. 882

26 May: 1,429 vs. 479

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1397373459882123267

 

 

[Ron jeremy]

WAiting to hear from certain members saying things are under control, great and they should open things up 

[anchadian]

Bamrasnaradura Institute has announced they are postponing all vaccination appointments in June to a later date in July as they did not receive their allocated batch of vaccines #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1397380250867179524

 

[Pattaya Spotter]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Will South-east Asia be swamped by Covid-19, like in South Asia?

 

In Thailand, hospital beds are quickly filling up after infections, first seeded in some exclusive entertainment outlets in Bangkok, resulted in the country's highest-ever number of daily cases in early April. The number spiked again after Songkran, the Thai new year.

Since then, the caseload has crept upwards and has more than quadrupled to nearly 135,000 as authorities struggled to contain outbreaks in overcrowded prisons, markets and camps housing construction workers.

 

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/will-south-east-asia-be-swamped-by-covid-19-like-in-south-asia

Isn't this article quoting mostly month old statistics...maybe the Singapore reporter had to spend 15 days in quarantine before getting out and actually doing some reporting. 

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, Pattaya Spotter said:

Isn't this article quoting mostly month old statistics...

No

[sungod]

10 minutes ago, Ron jeremy said:

WAiting to hear from certain members saying things are under control, great and they should open things up 

I think that would depend upon on where you live in Thailand. If I was in Bangkok or surrounding provinces I would be really worried.

Edited May 26, 2021 by sungod

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

23 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Yesterday pm, I posted the Dept of Corrections in prison infections:

 

Department of Corrections are reporting 1,429 new cases & one more death. There are now 15,914 prisoners in care which is 5.10% of the prison population. Most cases today are in Nonthaburi Prison (1,052) & Thonburi Remand Prison (339). 74 wardens are in care #Thailand

 

Today's update is only showing 479 and this has happened on previous reporting by the DofC.

 

Barrow has only just latched on to these unexplained discrepancies.

 

There’s something strange going on with the reporting of cases in prisons. Yesterday the Department of Corrections reported 1,429 cases but today CCSA only have 470

22 May: 842 vs. 605

23 May: 523 vs. 460

24 May: 499 vs. 206 

25 May: 628 vs. 882

26 May: 1,429 vs. 479

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1397373459882123267

 

 

 

This has been common in the past... The new cases that Corrections reports themselves late in the prior day don't always fully make it into the next morning's national report. So I'd be expecting a big prisons spike in tomorrow's MoPH update.

 

The total cumulative number of prison cases that MoPH had reported in their tallies through yesterday was 16,704. How does that match to Correction's total number of cases prior to last night's additions?

 

 

 

Edited May 26, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[dinsdale]

7 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Yesterday pm, I posted the Dept of Corrections in prison infections:

 

Department of Corrections are reporting 1,429 new cases & one more death. There are now 15,914 prisoners in care which is 5.10% of the prison population. Most cases today are in Nonthaburi Prison (1,052) & Thonburi Remand Prison (339). 74 wardens are in care #Thailand

 

Today's update is only showing 479 and this has happened on previous reporting by the DofC.

 

Barrow has only just latched on to these unexplained discrepancies.

 

There’s something strange going on with the reporting of cases in prisons. Yesterday the Department of Corrections reported 1,429 cases but today CCSA only have 470

22 May: 842 vs. 605

23 May: 523 vs. 460

24 May: 499 vs. 206 

25 May: 628 vs. 882

26 May: 1,429 vs. 479

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1397373459882123267

 

 

Interesting. Same probably happening with factories, workers camps, dormatories etc. I just can't work out with all these outbreaks in BKK and some other sites with a highly transmissable variant in extremely crowded conditions that the numbers stay virtually the same. One day up 500 the next down 500 then up again etc. 

[Bkk Brian]

3 minutes ago, sungod said:

I think that would depend upon on where you live in Thailand. If I was in Bangkok or surrounding provinces I would be really worried.

Agreed although I would be personally even more worried if I was locked in one of the 9 villages in Narathiwat that have the South African Variant.

[dinsdale]

4 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

This has been common in the past... The new cases that Corrections reports themselves late in the prior day don't always fully make it into the next morning's national report. So I'd be expecting a big prisons spike tomorrow.

 

Maybe. Thing is there is a 1,291 positive case discrepency between The Corrections Dept. and the CCSA. Can't see how late reporting can account for this figure.

[robblok]

8 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Interesting. Same probably happening with factories, workers camps, dormatories etc. I just can't work out with all these outbreaks in BKK and some other sites with a highly transmissable variant in extremely crowded conditions that the numbers stay virtually the same. One day up 500 the next down 500 then up again etc. 

Its just that the rate of infection is not going up. If you have the same amount of tests all the time then your numbers will be the same too. That just shows that the rate of infection is stable. If the increased testing by 5 the numbers would go up by 5. 

 

You can be sure that they are doing the minimum of testing as testing costs money and they rather spend it on subs. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Just now, dinsdale said:

Maybe. Thing is there is a 1,291 positive case discrepency between The Corrections Dept. and the CCSA. Can't see how late reporting can account for this figure.

 

Because what Corrections reports late in the day the day before doesn't always make it into the next morning's MoPH reporting.... But those numbers almost certainly will show up in tomorrow's MoPH update..

 

[robblok]

12 minutes ago, sungod said:

I think that would depend upon on where you live in Thailand. If I was in Bangkok or surrounding provinces I would be really worried.

I live in BKK Thong lor area, can't say im really worried. But the risk is certainly a lot  higher then in other places. Then again I think in Bangkok people are more aware and in a small village it just takes one person and it will infect a lot. I hear a lot of members who live in the less populated area's that there are no masks and people don't really care. So just one of those at a party can spread a lot. While in BKK people take more care. 

[robblok]

@TallGuyJohninBKK

 

You seem to know all the numbers do you know how many tests they do (also many tests are double test to confirm as only a confirmed tests can be reported). I havent seen test numbers but I might have overlooked. I am curious if they report those too on a day to day base.

[Kwasaki]

9 minutes ago, sungod said:

I think that would depend upon on where you live in Thailand. If I was in Bangkok or surrounding provinces I would be really worried.

Yeah everything pretty much shut down in Old City Sukhothai.

I hope it stays that way, until Bangkok and all the other problem areas are under control.

We have been lucky so far only 1 reported case, who come up from where yeah Bangkok.