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Thailand on Friday (May 28) reported 3,759 new COVID-19 cases and 34 additional deaths.

● 2,465 new infections
● 1294 prison / prison infections
 
Friday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 144,976 with 954 deaths.

 

The news comes as The Department of Medical Sciences has announced that nine production lots of the AstraZeneca vaccine, manufactured locally by Siam Bioscience, passed quality inspection by the Department.

 

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Thailand on Friday reported total new COVID cases, including general population cases and prison cases, that all rose for the second consecutive day, even as reported deaths declined from the record levels of the past two days.

 

Total new COVID cases of 3,759 reached their highest level in the past 11 days, and climbed from the 2,455 and 3,323 reported Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. The last higher figure was 9,635 cases on May 17.

 

But from the broadest view, total reported COVID cases in Thailand have basically been bouncing up and down in a range ever since mid-May, rarely exceeding 3,500 unlike Friday, but also not dropping much below 2,500 on a day-to-day basis, and not showing any clear upward or downward trend beyond those ranges.

 

Thailand total daily COVID cases since mid-May.

 

Within Friday's total, general population (non-prison) cases of 2,465 (shown in blue and yellow above) reached their highest level of the past four days, increasing from the 1,976 and 2,104 cases reported Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. The last higher figure was 2,507 cases on May 24.

 

The other subtotal of prison cases at 1,294 (shown in gray above) hit their highest level of the past nine days, climbing from the 479 and 1,219 cases reported Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. The last higher figure was 1,498 cases on May 19.

 

In contrast to the rising case counts, the total of new COVID deaths reported on Friday fell to 34, after reaching pandemic record levels of 41 and 47 on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.

 

Friday’s results brought Thailand’s totals since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 to 144,976 cases, 954 deaths and 46,150 COVID positive patients currently quarantined in some kind of hospital facility, including 1,226 listed in critical condition, and 405 of those requiring ventilators to breathe.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/334076721543992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

is it just me or is this groundhog day in terms of the figures?

6 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

TallGuy, do you have a chart of serious and ICU hospitalization since the beginning of this third wave?

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

1294 prison / prison infections

It seems the approach for prisoners is the herd immunity one i.e. letting them all catch it. As a percentage of population these figures are astronomical.

If they had any real plan to contain it in there, the numbers should have been reducing, not going through the roof. Must be very scary times for prisoners.

Well it seems as though the numbers have once again stabalized. ???? This should see Thailand at number 83 on the covid-19 charts and at this rate number 82 in 3-5 days. Up 35 spots in around 2 months. Prisons and clusters etc will continue to give highish numbers and it's going to be a long time before numbers actually start to show any significant reduction. Being that testing seems to be around these two areas along with hospital presentations one wonders how much community transmission is out there going undetected.

14 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

It seems the approach for prisoners is the herd immunity one i.e. letting them all catch it. As a percentage of population these figures are astronomical.

If they had any real plan to contain it in there, the numbers should have been reducing, not going through the roof. Must be very scary times for prisoners.

Going by previous experience I suspect this is not exclusive to the prisons but also to some of the migrant worker camps where they are currently locked in.

19 minutes ago, SmartyMarty said:

is it just me or is this groundhog day in terms of the figures?

No, it's just more of the same and continues ad-infimum going forward.  Just imagine what the numbers would be if they truly tested more than they do.  The daily figures from the prisons are also bundled it would appear.  Waiting on a breakdown from each of the clusters within the work camps and the Factories such as Dole and so on to be posted in separate columns as well.  I really do wonder what the numbers from all of those are?  On top of that how many have perished in the jails?  Yet they still push for the Opening of Phuket in 4 weeks, without truly having the vaccination program on track.  Something has to give.....

Step Testing.... Problem solved.

29 minutes ago, Freeduhdum said:

Step Testing.... Problem solved.

Would you start that with the left or right foot first?

5 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

TallGuy, do you have a chart of serious and ICU hospitalization since the beginning of this third wave?

 

I have the daily figures of what they call critical cases kept on a handwritten cheat sheet, but not in a chart form that I can post online.

 

Basically, the current critical cases count of about 1200 is somewhat off the high of 1248 set on May 21, and hasn't fallen below 1169 ever since then, mostly staying above 1200 on a day to day basis.

 

Before mid May, the total had been climbing steadily on an almost daily basis. I don't have any info to prove it, but my guess is, the recent figures have remained more or less flat because of some kind of case/bed management methods being used.

 

Some selected past points:

April 15 -- 41

April 21 --259

April 25 -- 507

April 29 -- 786

May 2 -- 954

May 9 -- 1142

May 15 - 1234

 

PS - that rate of increase is what I'd call "exponential," right up until the mid-May point at which it pretty much flatlined for unexplained reasons.

 

 

Clusters start with 1 person entering an area with crowded conditions. I bet there a lot of people walking around ready to start the next cluster and a lot of areas ready to be the next cluster. 

A conspiracy post and several replies have been removed.

 

1 hour ago, SmartyMarty said:

is it just me or is this groundhog day in terms of the figures?

I would agree with you, but Ryan says no it's not, it's just more of the same. 

 

Seems to me he agrees with you but says he doesn't. Perhaps I'll see it differently when I've had a cup of tea. 

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

It seems the approach for prisoners is the herd immunity one i.e. letting them all catch it.

 

Is herd immunity another word for "don't give a toss"?

 

Anyway, from what I have read over the past 18 months, my understanding is that herd immunity doesn't exist.

 

There are reports of people getting infected twice, even getting infected after vaccination, so what resembles herd immunity?

 

 

1 hour ago, SmartyMarty said:

is it just me or is this groundhog day in terms of the figures?

It's the very  same  with  many countries, Ireland  has been at around 400 a day for the past  5 weeks,so it's not only Thailand. 

This new Thai variant is big news in the UK and is in all of the major newspapers. Could it be possible that this variant is also running rampant here? Hard to imagine there would be 100 cases in UK and none in Thailand.

 

The Thai authorities seem to of been VERY quiet on this. Will be interesting to see how they try and spin it.

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Well it seems as though the numbers have once again stabalized. ???? This should see Thailand at number 83 on the covid-19 charts and at this rate number 82 in 3-5 days. Up 35 spots in around 2 months. Prisons and clusters etc will continue to give highish numbers and it's going to be a long time before numbers actually start to show any significant reduction. Being that testing seems to be around these two areas along with hospital presentations one wonders how much community transmission is out there going undetected.

Random testing outside of hotspots is not being publicized much, and is buried in the national figures. It is sort of broken out for Chonburi, and the implied positivity rate is very low, outside of hotspots.

2 minutes ago, Daithi85 said:

It's the very  same  with  many countries, Ireland  has been at around 400 a day for the past  5 weeks,so it's not only Thailand. 

But never at the start of a surge...those flatline patterns ALWAYS come after an exponential surge. By a pandemics very nature you can’t have a flatline at the beginning of the pandemic...it’s either up or it’s down...it’s not up and then flatline at the high water mark.

 

Show me a country that has flatlined at the high water mark?

5 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Random testing outside of hotspots is not being publicized much

 

 

Let me correct this for you

 

Random testing outside of hotspots is not being publicized implemented much

8 minutes ago, Marvin Hagler said:

But never at the start of a surge...those flatline patterns ALWAYS come after an exponential surge. By a pandemics very nature you can’t have a flatline at the beginning of the pandemic...it’s either up or it’s down...it’s not up and then flatline at the high water mark.

 

Show me a country that has flatlined at the high water mark?

100%. Other countries with mass testing and reliable figures show covid graphs like a rollercoaster. All depends on restrictions. My guess Thailand is on the up not the down.

how are they managing the factory worker clusters, I know they removed the Thai workers ... from the locations - did they just lock the migrants ...  inside without further tests or treatment

What can be done to change the way we see Covid 19 statistics recorded day in, day out. Personally I prefer it this way, it's so uplifting and sends positivity. ????

 

15 minutes ago, smedly said:

how are they managing the factory worker clusters, I know they removed the Thai workers ... from the locations - did they just lock the migrants ... inside without further tests or treatment

 

Pretty much I think. I suppose any that have serious symptoms might get transferred to a proper hospital. Other than that I don’t think there is too much difference between a prison and a worker camp.

 

7 minutes ago, smedly said:

how are they managing the factory worker clusters, I know they removed the Thai workers (master race) from the locations - did they just lock the migrants (mutants) inside without further tests or treatment

You nailed it exactly.  Locked down and being fed food and getting medical treatment as needed.  Out of sight out of mind.

Just now, 4MyEgo said:

What can be done to change the way we see things when it comes to reporting Covid.

 

Personally I prefer it this way, it's so uplifting ????

new recoveries - my guess is the majority were never sick in the first place, so recovery is the wrong word - released might be closer to the truth or more accurate 

28 minutes ago, Marvin Hagler said:

This new Thai variant is big news in the UK and is in all of the major newspapers. Could it be possible that this variant is also running rampant here? Hard to imagine there would be 100 cases in UK and none in Thailand.

If true then the July 1st "opening" is now well and truly scuppered.

Just now, Phuketshrew said:

If true then the July 1st "opening" is now well and truly scuppered.

the covid landscape changes very quickly, who knows what is round the corner