Thailand reports 4,803 new COVID-19 cases, 34 new deaths

[webfact]

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Thailand on Saturday (May 29) reported 4,803 new COVID-19 cases and 34 additional deaths.

● 2,101 new infections
● 2,702 prison / prison infections
 
Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 149,779 with 988 deaths.

 

The news comes as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha reassured all Thais that they will be inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines this year.

 

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[Pattaya Spotter]

Not so good...but 60% are prison cases so easier to contain.

Edited May 29, 2021 by Pattaya Spotter

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Thailand on Saturday reported its third highest daily total ever of new COVID cases at 4,803, a tally largely driven by bulk reporting of 2,702 new infections among prison inmates, bringing the nation’s cumulative total of COVID prison infections to more than 22,000.

 

Saturday’s report, which also included a basically flatline number of 2,101 new cases in the general population and 34 new deaths, brought the nation’s COVID totals since the start of the pandemic to nearly 150,000 cases (149,779) and nearly 1,000 deaths (988).

 

The only higher total new COVID case counts Thailand had experienced since the start of the pandemic also were driven by bulk reporting of prison cases – a total of 9,635 cases with 6,853 from prisons on May 17, and 4,887 cases with 2,835 from prisons on May 13.

 

Representing Saturday’s newly reported 2,702 prison infections as a single day total is somewhat misleading though, because in fact, the prison cases reported by the Ministry of Public Health on Saturday had been previously reported by corrections officials, but not yet by MoPH, over the past two days.

 

Whereas the Ministry of Public Health has been relatively timely in reporting new COVID cases found among the general public, Thailand’s corrections officials thus far in the pandemic have tended to combine days or weeks of test results and then bulk report them on single days, skewing the daily reporting statistics.

 

The 2,101 new general population COVID cases reported Saturday was a decline of 364 from the 2,465 reported the prior day, but remained within the 2,000+ new daily cases range that has been common for Thailand since the start of May. Thailand’s single day peak of general population cases was 2,922 on May 23.

 

The new cases reported on Saturday also added to Thailand’s new record population of 46,480 COVID positive cases being held in mandatory quarantine in various kinds of hospital facilities. As of Saturday, 1,221 (-5) of those were listed in critical condition, and 406 (+1) of those were requiring ventilators to breathe.

 

[SmartyMarty]

I'm looking forward to the university that publishes the study "how not to handle a new year holiday during a global pandemic". Let's hope it names and shames.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/334713361480328

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

Wow talk about close proximity patient mixing in the Field hospitals!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

 

 

 

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

 

[ThailandRyan]

Look at number 8 in the article bullet point 1 for this

1. Contact from previous confirmed cases

• In families, 5 cases
• In workplaces, 5 cases

Edited May 29, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[Bkk Brian]

Here's a chart thats not posted often but worth a look at occasionally for trends without noise.

 

Thailand: Biweekly cases: where are confirmed cases increasing or falling?

 

Why is it useful to look at biweekly changes in confirmed cases?

 

For all global data sources on the pandemic, daily data does not necessarily refer to the number of new confirmed cases on that day – but to the cases reported on that day.

Since reporting can vary significantly from day to day – irrespectively of any actual variation of cases – it is helpful to look at a longer time span that is less affected by the daily variation in reporting. This provides a clearer picture of where the pandemic is accelerating, staying the same, or reducing.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

 

 

 

[dinsdale]

13 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Not so good...but 60% are prison cases so easier to contain.

Not the point. These people have covid. The authorities should have been on top of this from the very beginning last year. They need to test each and every prisoner not just for a positive or negative result but also for antibodies. How there appears to be no spread from the prisons to the outside community is an interesting question.

Edited May 29, 2021 by dinsdale

[ThailandRyan]

6 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Wow talk about close proximity patient mixing in the Field hospitals!

Yes a little to close, what happened to social distancing. Maybe they will put plastic barriers up between bunks.

[itsari]

Majority of cases from the prison population . Hope is in sight for the inmates . The Thai Government has allocated 300 million baht to tackle the covid infection rate in prisons . approximately   300,000 inmates in total . 1000 baht to each prisoner should make a difference .

[brewsterbudgen]

11 minutes ago, SmartyMarty said:

I'm looking forward to the university that publishes the study "how not to handle a new year holiday during a global pandemic". Let's hope it names and shames.

But then how do you explain the still relatively low numbers of cases and deaths?  Surely the disastrous handling of the crisis in countries like the UK, USA, Italy, India, Brazil are far more worthy of study of what not to do.

Edited May 29, 2021 by brewsterbudgen

[Bkk Brian]

I'll update this one next week but shows the Community spread, week on week without the noise and the increase in weekly cases

[RotBenz8888]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

The news comes as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha reassured all Thais that they will be inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines this year.

Talk is cheap. Dirt cheap. 

[anchadian]

Sinovac’s CoronaVac reduces mortality by 97 percent: Uruguay study

 

The CoronaVac vaccine, produced by Chinese firm Sinovac, reduces coronavirus mortality by 97 percent, according to early results of the immunization campaign in Uruguay, which relies heavily on the Chinese jab.

 

In people who had received two doses, it reduced infection with the coronavirus by 57 percent and intensive care admissions by 95 percent, said a report by the health ministry of the South American nation.

 

Compared to other vaccines in use, there have been few scientific publications on the efficacy of CoronaVac, and widely divergent reported results.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/sinovacs-coronavac-reduces-mortality-by-97-percent-uruguay-study/

[FarFlungFalang]

5 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Talk is cheap. Dirt cheap. 

Cheap is when you treat the whole country like a migrant worker camp and rely on natural herd immunity to solve the problem with some window dressing.

[Susco]

10 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

But then how do you explain the still relatively low numbers of cases and deaths?

 

Why there are every day, for a month now, the same number of new cases, excluding the inmates, I think doesn't need any further explanation as it is too obvious.

 

Maybe the same strategy is used reporting deaths

 

 

 

Edited May 29, 2021 by Susco

[smedly]

19 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Wow talk about close proximity patient mixing in the Field hospitals!

covid soup

[Bkk Brian]

9 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

But then how do you explain the still relatively low numbers of cases and deaths?  Surely the disastrous handling of the crisis in countries like the UK, USA, Italy, India, Brazil are far more worthy of study of what not to do.

Yea maybe but we're on a Thai forum and the thread is about cases here not abroad. If we were on a forum in the UK, USA, Italy India or Brazil then you'd have a valid point.

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, smedly said:

covid soup

Total lack of respect for the patients, just take a few of the box beds out, it can't be that desperate for beds here can it?

[dinsdale]

Just now, brewsterbudgen said:

Bu then how do you explain the still relatively low numbers of cases and deaths?  Surely the disastrous handling of the crisis in countries like the UK, USA, Italy, India, Brazil are far more worthy of study of what not to do.

Again with this arguement. Fairly obvious to all but the stupid that the countries you list monumentally messed up their initial approach to this pandemic. Some have done much better since. India allowed a huge festival in a country of 1.4 billion. Bolsanaro called it the flu as did Trump. Low numbers here I believe is more due to people wearing masks than anything the govt is doing. The govt that has let this virus run. The initial lockdown appeared to work. Not cracking down after the Thong Lor spread and allowing Songkran clearly hasn't. 

[brewsterbudgen]

2 minutes ago, Susco said:

 

Why there are every day, for a month now, the same number of new cases, excluding the inmates, I think doesn't need any further explanation as it is too obvious.

 

Maybe the same strategy is used reporting deaths

 

 

 

You could well be right.  But I think social media would be ablaze if people were dying in their thousands every day.  I really don't think it could be concealed.

[smedly]

14 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

But then how do you explain the still relatively low numbers of cases and deaths?  Surely the disastrous handling of the crisis in countries like the UK, USA, Italy, India, Brazil are far more worthy of study of what not to do.

who do you trust the least 

[brewsterbudgen]

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Again with this arguement. Fairly obvious to all but the stupid that the countries you list monumentally messed up their initial approach to this pandemic. Some have done much better since. India allowed a huge festival in a country of 1.4 billion. Bolsanaro called it the flu as did Trump. Low numbers here I believe is more due to people wearing masks than anything the govt is doing. The govt that has let this virus run. The initial lockdown appeared to work. Not cracking down after the Thong Lor spread and allowing Songkran clearly hasn't. 

 

Obviously it hasn't worked perfectly, but how do you explain the relatively low numbers.  Surely by now a huge rise in infections and deaths post-Songkran would have been seen?

[cyril sneer]

how many recovered today?

[brewsterbudgen]

7 minutes ago, smedly said:

who do you trust the least 

Don't think I trust any of them, including the lot in this country.  

[smedly]

6 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

You could well be right.  But I think social media would be ablaze if people were dying in their thousands every day.  I really don't think it could be concealed.

 

People die in this country - cause of death is generally not investigated or verified by a doctor unless the person was in a hospital - get the western head off - this is Thailand.

 

and if anyone goes on social media and claims a death was covid without medical confirmation they risk being prosecuted and possibly isolated in their own village 

[Danderman123]

37 minutes ago, SmartyMarty said:

I'm looking forward to the university that publishes the study "how not to handle a new year holiday during a global pandemic". Let's hope it names and shames.

The myth of the Songkran spread is not dead yet.

 

The number of cases spread to the provinces during Songkran was tiny. And there were cases throughout the provinces before Songkran. 

[Danderman123]

Just now, smedly said:

 

People die in this country - cause of death is generally not investigated or verified by a doctor unless the person was in a hospital - get the western head off - this is Thailand.

 

and if anyone goes on social media and claims a death was covid without medical confirmation they risk being prosecuted and possibly isolated in their own village 

If anyone sneezes in the village everyone in the province knows.