Public Health Ministry Denied Existence of COVID’s Thai Variant

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK, May 28 (TNA) – The Public Health Ministry said that the new variant of COVID-19 known as C.36.3 that was detected in Britain was not a Thai variant of the virus.

 

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the ministry’s Department of Disease Control, quoted the Division of Epidemiology of his department as reporting that infection with the variant was confirmed with a male Egyptian co-pilot who lived in Egypt.

 

The Egyptian departed from Egypt on Jan 25 and arrived in Bangkok on Jan 26 on an Egyptian Airlines plane.

 

Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-705777

 

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[SoilSpoil]

The world already names it the Thai strain, a kind of the working of karma actually, as I was called a person of lower hygine standards by Thai athorities, and the extreem xenophobic reactions shown the  last couple of months ranging from sealing off living quarters with barb wires to Thai first vaccination policies. I must admit that I enjoy the Thai variant saga that is enfolding in the media. Som na na.

[Lingba]

of course it isnt a Thai strain..its the dirty farang

[phetphet]

One hub that's not wanted.

[jonclark]

Who cares? Really who cares? Honestly if they put as much effort and energy into rolling out the vaccine as they did denying this truth. Thailand would be covid free. 

[Excel]

58 minutes ago, Lingba said:

of course it isnt a Thai strain..its the dirty farang

They should have called it the "Lady boy" strain, that would have got the Belgium and German tourist rushing to come back????

[CALSinCM]

I guess they can deny all they want.  What are they going to do. File defamation charges against every news agency in the world?  I guess it's a tough life when the sun, moon, and stars all revolve around just you.  Your poop begins to smell like flowers right when the world decides to name a virus after you.  ????

[Jingthing]

5 hours ago, Lingba said:

of course it isnt a Thai strain..its the dirty farang

Call it the Pattaya strain and call it a day.

[Jingthing]

These things happen and they stick.

The horrific Spanish flu of 1918 originated in the U.S.

[rabas]

<A previously removed post from another member has been edited from this post>

 

That post you refer to is a different (wrong) variant. That one, EPI_ISL_1969991 collected on April 26 2021 (uploaded 2021-05-09) is a Pakistani woman with Indian double variant B.1.617.1.   Here is the data from GISAID 

 

Pango Lineage

B.1.617.1

Collection date:	2021-04-26
Location:	Asia / Thailand
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	Travel history from Pakistan and detected on day 3rd after arrival in a state quarantine facility
Gender:	Female
Patient age:	42

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The  'Thai' strain from Egypt C.36 was uploaded as EPI_ISL_934972, collected on January 31, 2021, uploaded 2021-02-04  several month ago. The Thai labelled it as C.36 which is a year old Egypt strain. AFter recently finding 100 cases in the UK, the British gave it a subgroup C.36.3 because subgroup C.36.2 was taken.

 

Pango Lineage

C.36 (version: 2021-05-27)

Collection date:	2021-01-31
Location:	Asia / Thailand
Host:	Human
Additional location information:	Travel history from Egypt and detected upon arrival at Port Health Bangkok Suvarnbhumi Airport
Gender:	Male
Patient age:	33
Patient status:	unknown

 

The good news? Both were uploaded by Supaporn Wacharapluesadee a.k.a. Thailand's Bat Woman!!

 

 

 

[webfact]

Thai Govt. claims C.36.3 strain of COVID-19 is not a “Thai variant” and not of concern

 

 

Thailand’s Public Health Ministry said today (Friday) that there is no current Thai variant of the coronavirus, which was previously reported to have been detected in the UK by Public Health England (PHE).

 

Director-General of the Disease Control Department, Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong, announced that the C.36.3 variant, which reportedly came from Thailand, actually came from an Egyptian man, who travelled to Hong Kong and then to Bangkok on January 25th. He entered alternative state quarantine at Novotel Samut Prakan the following day.

 

After he was tested for COVID-19 on his arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport, however, he was found to be infected with the C.36.3 variant and was sent to hospital for treatment on January 29th.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-govt-claims-c-36-3-strain-of-covid-19-is-not-a-thai-variant-and-not-of-concern/

 

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[sammieuk1]

Also known as the Prawit strain and be heard from cubicle 10 allegedly ???? 

[RichardColeman]

OK, then we can now call the UK strain the European migrant dingy strain

[ukrules]

44 minutes ago, webfact said:

After he was tested for COVID-19 on his arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport, however, he was found to be infected with the C.36.3 variant

....they discovered it so it becomes the Thai variant. That's the rule ????

 

 

[Scott]

Off-topic post removed.  

 

[Damrongsak]

Definitely not a Thai invention.  They got it from some Egyptian guy at the airport.

 

[ikke1959]

But apparently in January it was not an issue to inform everyone that there was a new variant of the virus from Egypt.. And if it is from Egypt why is it only now discovered?? So I am sure it is a Thai variant. The government has done nothing to keep people safe in a year time and see what the result is now.. Lying about the numbers of infections and the attitude " we can handle this by ourselves" if it is about the vaccines has caused this chaos

[fusion58]

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Public Health Ministry Denied Existence of COVID’s Thai Variant

 

Of course they did.

 

After all, saving face trumps public health and safety every time.

[LomSak27]

Face Loss 101 - East Asian Variant 

 

China lobbies WHO, calls in all 'favors' owed, to make sure, a new disease is called Covid 19, not Wuhan Flu.

The super-spreader event at National Boxing Stadium last year is claimed to be the deadly "Italian strain". However at that time, no 'Italian strain' exists, it's all out of China back then. A Thai doctor made up the name, Thai media runs with it.

 

After months of hyperventilating about The English Variant,  or The South African Variant.  The Thai public health ministry has a hissy fit, holds a press conference to deny a Thai Variant exists.

 

 ????

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[clivebaxter]

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

These things happen and they stick.

The horrific Spanish flu of 1918 originated in the U.S.

There is good evidence that started in China also, taken to the US by Chinese laborers, then onto Europe in WW1

 

1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health

[ukrules]

10 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

There is good evidence that started in China also, taken to the US by Chinese laborers, then onto Europe in WW1

 

1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health

If you dig a little deeper on the origins of most of the plagues over the last 500 to 1000 years a large number of them have something in common....you guessed it already.

[MasterBaker]

Thailand variant, the one with the smile

[rabas]

 

In Thailand, the virus you see is not the virus you get.

 

Neither is the vaccine, apparently.

 

[oneton]

Why not call it the Egyptian variant or Fred or whatever. Mutated strains of the virus do not have a nationality. They are given colloquial names to simplify identification. Absolute drivel.

[Crossy]

My (possibly flawed) understanding is that the variants are named after the location where they were identified not necessarily where they originated.

 

Identified in the UK - UK variant, identified in Thailand - Thai variant.

[DLock]

26 minutes ago, oneton said:

Why not call it the Egyptian variant or Fred or whatever. Mutated strains of the virus do not have a nationality. They are given colloquial names to simplify identification. Absolute drivel.

 

What? And miss out on the opportunity to ridicule Cha Cha and Bighead?

 

Regardless of where it came from, it shall be forever known as the "Thai Strain".

[clivebaxter]

Just call it the Klong Toey variant, and blame it on the poor. More China origin for 1918 evidence

 

history.com/news/china-epicenter-of-1918-flu-pandemic-historian-says

[NCC1701A]

14 minutes ago, Crossy said:

My (possibly flawed) understanding is that the variants are named after the location where they were identified not necessarily where they originated.

 

"NCC1701A's House" sounds sort of weird but I guess I will go with that. 

 

It's been going around Hua Hin lately. 

[RobMuir]

5 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

 

"NCC1701A's House" sounds sort of weird but I guess I will go with that. 

 

It's been going around Hua Hin lately. 

 

I think the locals just refer to it as "Herpes House Hua Hin"

[SooKee]

Of course, Thailand, with its renowned position on the world stage in the spheres of medicine and technology is perfectly placed to announce this.  Suddenly they become experts in strain origins.  Not to mention that no-one anywhere trusts or believes a word spouted by these puppets 'officials' with regard to this or indeed the daily BS announcements they try to spin regarding vaccine availability, over and over and over again.