Thailand reports new daily record of 47 coronavirus deaths, 3,323 infections

[anchadian]

Of the 3,323 new cases that were found in the past 24 hours:

- 1,132 were found via tests at medical facilities

- 951 via proactive tests at known clusters

- 1,219 via tests at prisons

- 21 imported cases

- 47 fatalities (new high)

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1397788672397701124

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Thai provinces breakdown for new cases reported on Thursday:

 

Four provinces reporting more than 100 new cases: Bangkok (894), Samut Prakan (280), Phetchaburi (233), and Nonthaburi (129).

 

Thirty nine other provinces reporting only between one and 10 new cases, and 22 provinces reporting no new cases. Thus 61 of Thailand's 77 provinces reporting 10 or fewer new cases for the day.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/333401381611526

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

14 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Oh what a tangled web we weave.....

Looks like some got spanked and caught up in the tangle.

[anchadian]

Today there are 47 deaths in #Thailand which is a new high:

 

26 males and 21 females

Median age is 63 (26-87 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (26), Nonthaburi (4), Chiang Mai (3) plus 14 provinces with one each.

18 infected from family

9 had no underlying diseases

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1397789813722337281

 

[anchadian]

4 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Those on ventilators to follow.

 

Official #COVID19 update in #Thailand on Thursday:

 

Since 1 April 2021

 

112,354 people infected (+21 imported cases & +3,302 local cases)

826 dead +47

46,469 in care

1,201 in serious condition

2,063 discharged from care Follow

@ThaiNewsReports

for full details

 

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1397788761086300162

 

399 on ventilators.

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1397789034018009088

 

[sungod]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

If you are going to quote me I would appreciate you quote my entire post. If you want to highlight your point then underline it thanks. As for almost 100% of the current infections and deaths being avoidable. Yep. Total lockdown after Thong Lor outbreak, no interprovincial travel, borders shut tight and definitely no Songkran and massive amounts of testing. The situation we have now would not exist.

 

All the strains (UK, India, S.Africa) we have now are far more virulent.  They would have spread anyway, not at the current extent I'll give you that, but 100% avoidable is a ridiculous statement to make.

[anchadian]

Of the 2,083 local cases (excluding the 1,219 cases in prisons), the highest numbers by province were 894 in Bangkok followed by 280 in Samut Prakan, 233 in Phetchaburi, 129 in Nonthaburi and 98 in Pathum Thani.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1397790179499204618

 

[RobMuir]

20 minutes ago, WHansen said:

Last time i checked the UK was on the continent of Europe.

I thought they voted themselves out with all that Brexit carry on?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Bangkok province report for the day:

 

894 new cases, 26 new deaths, and 37,436 total cases since the start of the current third wave COVID outbreak at the beginning of April. Bangkok's 894 new cases reported Thursday was the province's second lowest daily total of the past week.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/333401381611526

 

The graphic below shows the daily new case totals for (in line-by-line order on the chart) Thailand's total domestic cases, then the subtotals for Bangkok province and prison cases. Unlike Bangkok, Thursday's 1,219 new nationwide prison cases tally was the highest daily total of the past week.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/333401381611526

 

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

Just now, anchadian said:

Today there are 47 deaths in #Thailand which is a new high:

 

26 males and 21 females

Median age is 63 (26-87 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (26), Nonthaburi (4), Chiang Mai (3) plus 14 provinces with one each.

18 infected from family

9 had no underlying diseases

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1397789813722337281

 

I remember the average age of fatalities in the the UK and Europe was 82 years old do we know what the average age for fatalities is for Thailand?I see the median age of early sixties mentioned often but can't remember seeing what the average age is.

[Bkk Brian]

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Bangkok province report for the day:

 

Death rate now at 1.04% in Bangkok. Positivity rates for all active case finding in Bangkok still very high 9.53%

 

27th May: 9.53%

26th May: 9.58% 

25th May: 8.96%

23rd May: 9.05%

22 May: 9.08%

20 May: 7.21%

19th May: 7.04%

18th May: 6.98%

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The government's English language COVID news briefing for the day has concluded, once again, with no new or specific information about the promised June 7 launch of vaccine registrations for foreign nationals.

 

That means, no information about what hospitals or medical centers in any of the provinces will be participating in that program, and regarding Bangkok, no comment on why one of the two designated vaccination centers for foreign nationals, Vimut Hospital, had suddenly closed vaccine pre-registrations, just days after first opening them.

[Danderman123]

1 hour ago, Macrohistory said:

 

If this is going to happen, when do you expect to see the inflection point -- the corner turned?  I don't mean this to be a sarcastic question.  I'm trying genuinely to understand your perspective.

 

Actually, late April, when new infections stopped spiking up. 
 

I expect to see the overall infection rate -outside of prisons  and hotspots - continue to slowly decrease. The key metric for me are positive cases from hospital walk-ins, the blue bars in the daily charts (as long as the methodology for that chart doesn’t change).

[anchadian]

Vaccinations in #Thailand since 28th February 2021: First dose - Sinovac 2,094,445 & AstraZeneca 120,276 Second dose - Sinovac 994,161 & AstraZeneca 11,374 Yesterday, 57,112 people received their first dose and 4,543 received their second dose

 

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1397795392134082563

 

[FarFlungFalang]

23 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Of the 2,083 local cases (excluding the 1,219 cases in prisons), the highest numbers by province were 894 in Bangkok followed by 280 in Samut Prakan, 233 in Phetchaburi, 129 in Nonthaburi and 98 in Pathum Thani.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1397790179499204618

 

Does this include the 1291 prison cases talked about yesterday that were supposed to be included in todays numbers?

[anchadian]

Dr Chalerm Harnphanich, Chairman of the Private Hospital Association, said hospitals have increased the order for Moderna from 5 to 10 million doses. The first batch could arrive within August, he added.

#วัคซีนโควิด #โควิดวันนี้ #ฉีดวัคซีน #WhatsHappeningInThailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1397796884035502082

 

[Danderman123]

3 hours ago, FarFlungFalang said:

So do you have any info on which hotspots have been eliminated and do you realise that some of the variants currently circulating have an R0 value of 5 according to the Chief Health Officer of Victoria?That means that each infection has the potential of infecting 5 others.Do you know the numbers of close contacts that are being traced here in Thailand?Yesterday Melbourne traced 10,000 close contacts from 26 infections in a 24 hour period you can extrapolate that for Thailand to get a rough estimation of the numbers of close contacts Thailand would need to track and trace here, possibly hundreds of thousands each day.Do you think Thailand is tracing that number each day?

Thailand uses a different methodology for identifying hotspots, as I have explained before.

[johnnytuc]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yet Thailand's top people running global companies are billionaires

Thailand's 50 Richest List (forbes.com)

Thailand is also a very rich country, yet the inequality between haves and haves nots is huge.

Correct the last figures i saw was that 1% of the population owned 63% of the wealth, near enough the highest disparity in the world!

[Swimfan]

2 hours ago, RobMuir said:

Not so much a competition, more a matter of life and death for millions of people.

 

My home state of Victoria in Australia has just locked down again due to the B117 strain.

 

Hopefully they can stop it also.

I think it’s actually the Indian strain not B117 in Victoria. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

A good EN language recap of many of the day's COVID stats:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/OICDDC/posts/3991993897587840

 

[FarFlungFalang]

4 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Thailand uses a different methodology for identifying hotspots, as I have explained before.

So is that a no on any of the hotspots having been eliminated?What about the number of deaths declining after 2/3 weeks after the number of cases levelled off nearly 5 weeks ago?You haven't explained why they are still rising.

[Danderman123]

1 hour ago, FarFlungFalang said:

If the deaths keep rising it might make it difficult to argue the case numbers are in fact stable.

Just the opposite, a couple thousand new infections every day are inevitably going to lead to double digit fatalities for weeks to come.

 

As for specific hotspots being eliminated, you would have to compare the reports from 2 or 3 weeks ago to today.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Daily updated charts from the Ministry of Public Health showing how Thailand is faring versus other countries and its regional peer countries ranked by total COVID cases since the start of the pandemic. Thailand continues moving up slowly on the list, now ranking 84th among more than 200 countries in the tally.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/333401381611526

 

 

[Danderman123]

Just now, FarFlungFalang said:

So is that a no on any of the hotspots having been eliminated?What about the number of deaths declining after 2/3 weeks after the number of cases levelled off nearly 5 weeks ago?You haven't explained why they are still rising.

Deaths are going to increase.

 

They will not decrease until 3 weeks after the average number of cases starts to decrease.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The spate of 1,219 new prison cases reported Thursday meant Thailand's total number of new COVID cases (3,323) exceeded the 3,000 mark for the fifth time in the past seven days.

 

But the outlook was better in terms of general population cases only, where Thursday's 2,104 tally was the second lowest daily total of the past week, even though it broke a three-day streak of declines and increased from Wednesday's 1,976 daily total.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/333401381611526

 

[IamNoone88]

4 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Static numbers=decline in infections.????

static number = decline - Must be a member of the hotel association pushing the Phuket sandbox!

[FarFlungFalang]

7 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Just the opposite, a couple thousand new infections every day are inevitably going to lead to double digit fatalities for weeks to come.

The number of cases reached 2000 on the 23rd of April and have remained level for nearly 5 weeks yet deaths are continuing to rise when you said they would level off and start declining after 2-3 weeks, how do you explain this anomaly?That doesn't include prison numbers who apparently don't die.

[RobMuir]

11 minutes ago, Swimfan said:

I think it’s actually the Indian strain not B117 in Victoria. 

I was told it was the English strain but I hope you are right.

 

The Indian strain isn't as deadly or contagious.

 

[Danderman123]

3 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

The number of cases reached 2000 on the 23rd of April and have remained level for nearly 5 weeks yet deaths are continuing to rise when you said they would level off and start declining after 2-3 weeks, how do you explain this anomaly?

What I said is that deaths lag new infections by 3 weeks, so we would expect to see double digit fatalities for weeks to come, even if new infections completely stopped.

 

I don’t claim to have any insight into why Thailand’s case infection rate was previously so low, nor why it is climbing now.

 

[FarFlungFalang]

8 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Deaths are going to increase.

 

They will not decrease until 3 weeks after the average number of cases starts to decrease.

If the numbers of cases remain static then the numbers of death should also remain static but they are rising how do you explain this anomaly?