Thailand reports 3,886 new COVID-19 cases, 39 new deaths

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File photo: Healthcare workers take nasal swab samples from local residents for a COVID-19 test after hundreds of residents of Watthana district and the trendy Thonglor neighborhood tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bangkok, Thailand, April 8, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

Thailand on Thursday (June 3) reported 3,886 new COVID-19 cases and 39 additional deaths.

 

● 2,656 new infections
● 1,230 prison / prison infections
 
Thursday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 169,348 with 1,146 deaths.

 

The news comes as the US Deputy Secretary of State promised to increase Thailand’s access to COVID-19 vaccines.

 

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[ExpatOilWorker]

Another announcement from CCSA, but today is kind of a public holiday, so let's lighten the mood.
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Covid Cluster - Sickness Awaits
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Edited June 3, 2021 by ExpatOilWorker

[Bkk Brian]

Rolling 7 day average which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases.

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

[keith101]

Wont be long before Thailand crosses the 200,000 new cases mark and on up from there . The big question from there is will wee see deaths in the 2,000 range which with so many serious/critical is quite possible .

[RandolphGB]

2 minutes ago, keith101 said:

Wont be long before Thailand crosses the 200,000 new cases mark and on up from there . The big question from there is will wee see deaths in the 2,000 range which with so many serious/critical is quite possible .

Get a grip . Turn off your TV 

[AndyFoxy]

1 minute ago, RandolphGB said:

Get a grip . Turn off your TV 

Head, sand.

[Olmate]

1 minute ago, AndyFoxy said:

Head, sand.

666  replies! A hint.

[brewsterbudgen]

3 minutes ago, keith101 said:

Wont be long before Thailand crosses the 200,000 new cases mark and on up from there . The big question from there is will wee see deaths in the 2,000 range which with so many serious/critical is quite possible .

Hopefully not, but it wouldn't be surprising to see total case numbers at that level, seeing as it's already nearly 170,000.  If you mean a total of 2,000 deaths for the entire pandemic you could well be right too (but that would still be relatively low).  If you're suggesting Thailand might face 2,000 deaths a day, I would suggest you're way off.

[darksidedog]

Looking across the whole last month, it shows a pretty steady 2,000 cases a day, without huge rises or falls. Not going away, but not spreading like a bushfire yet either. We can only hope as vaccination finally gets rolling that the numbers will start to tilt downwards.

[Danderman123]

8 minutes ago, keith101 said:

Wont be long before Thailand crosses the 200,000 new cases mark and on up from there . The big question from there is will wee see deaths in the 2,000 range which with so many serious/critical is quite possible .

Based on the current trend, there will be over 2,000 cumulative deaths from this wave.

[ThailandRyan]

3 variants of covid roaming around with the potential for the newest one coming in from Vietnam possible. If they do not get people vaccinated you may just see a cluster everywhere.  Lat Prao Central Mall has a cluster now. What that means for the BTS system that abuts it is an unknown as well....stay safe.

[Danderman123]

1 minute ago, darksidedog said:

Looking across the whole last month, it shows a pretty steady 2,000 cases a day, without huge rises or falls. Not going away, but not spreading like a bushfire yet either. We can only hope as vaccination finally gets rolling that the numbers will start to tilt downwards.

The slowly rising number of daily cases is troubling. Given the slow rollout of vaccines, there is the potential for death by strangulation of the Thai economy, where case numbers continue to rise, and herd immunity isn’t reached until sometime in 2022.

 

The good news is that most cases are in the greater Bangkok area.

 

Whack a mole as a strategy for dealing with this wave could fail if there are simply too many hotspots, or if hotspots return again after initial elimination.

[dinsdale]

Long way to go yet but June may be worse than May and May as previously pointed out was a lot worse than April. 1st 3 days of this month sees 117 deaths. Might be looking at 1000+ reported deaths this month.

[Mr Meeseeks]

It ain't getting any better that's for sure, and I don't see Thais changing their habits to try and prevent it.

 

Sure they are wearing masks, using gels and using the digital thermometers at the 7/11 as has been the case for over a year but there's little social distancing I can see; wet markets and other markets are still mobbed especially on the weekends.

[brewsterbudgen]

6 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

It ain't getting any better that's for sure, and I don't see Thais changing their habits to try and prevent it.

 

Sure they are wearing masks, using gels and using the digital thermometers at the 7/11 as has been the case for over a year but there's little social distancing I can see; wet markets and other markets are still mobbed especially on the weekends.

 

And that's likely to be how it will be for many months ahead, if not years!  A global pandemic like this won't just magically disappear.  Until a proper and effective vaccination program is in place, we'll just have to get used to it.  But in the meantime it's ridiculous to arbitrarily allow some businesses to continue but not others.  And, it's essential that schools reopen soon as the damage being caused to children's education and social welfare is immeasurable.

Edited June 3, 2021 by brewsterbudgen

[Mr Meeseeks]

9 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 

And that's likely to be how it will be for many months ahead, if not years!  A global pandemic like this won't just magically disappear.  Until a proper and effective vaccination program is in place, we'll just have to get used to it.  But in the meantime it's ridiculous to arbitrarily allow some businesses to continue but not others.  And, it's essential that schools reopen soon as the damage being caused to children's education and social welfare is immeasurable.

Exactly. I am just as likely to get a dose of C19 at a wet market or a pharmacy as I am sitting at an outdoor bar having a beer or sitting at a restaurant eating. 

 

If I didn't know any better I would think these restrictions are being forced on us

Edited June 3, 2021 by Rimmer

[bkk6060]

And they are relaxing restrictions in Chonburi and wanted to do so in Bangkok.

Mind numbing Insanity.

[Excel]

32 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The slowly rising number of daily cases is troubling. Given the slow rollout of vaccines, there is the potential for death by strangulation of the Thai economy, where case numbers continue to rise, and herd immunity isn’t reached until sometime in 2022.

 

The good news is that most cases are in the greater Bangkok area.

 

Whack a mole as a strategy for dealing with this wave could fail if there are simply too many hotspots, or if hotspots return again after initial elimination.

You were told this and the forecast for increasing cases  many weeks ago yet you came back with some preposterous answers that earned you some ridicule.   Now it seems the penny has finally dropped and you finally are beginning to see the troubling upward trend with almost zero practical responses from this corrupt ad incompetent government.  Let's hope we are all wrong, but it's a big hope.   

 

Your hope regarding herd immunity is pie in the sky hopes too based on opinion of virologists and behavioural professionals with the rapidly developing variants and human complacency creeping in with the thinking now that herd immunity is almost unattainable which leaves vaccines, and their ongoing tweaking , to be the only solution. Unfortunately Thailand due to corruption, incompetence and other factors are light years away from achieving that nationwide ,   indeed if they ever wanted to that is.

Edited June 3, 2021 by Excel

[colinneil]

33 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The slowly rising number of daily cases is troubling. Given the slow rollout of vaccines, there is the potential for death by strangulation of the Thai economy, where case numbers continue to rise, and herd immunity isn’t reached until sometime in 2022.

 

The good news is that most cases are in the greater Bangkok area.

 

Whack a mole as a strategy for dealing with this wave could fail if there are simply too many hotspots, or if hotspots return again after initial elimination.

Now you appear to be admitting you were spouting nonsense before, but hey better late than never.

[LosLobo]

18 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Exactly. I am just as likely to get a dose of C19 at a wet market or a pharmacy as I am sitting at an outdoor bar having a beer or sitting at a restaurant eating. 

 

I can see the Govt's point, maybe buying food to eat or medicine for a life threatening disease is more important than having a beer.

 

There is a sub forum in Thai Visa's Health and Medicine forum which may help you!

[MaiDong]

24 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Exactly. I am just as likely to get a dose of C19 at a wet market or a pharmacy as I am sitting at an outdoor bar having a beer or sitting at a restaurant eating. 

 

If I didn't know any better I would think these restrictions are being forced on us by the ultra-conservative Buddhist loonies.

 

And this is it in a nutshell. We avoid leaving the house at the weekend because everywhere is packed full of non-socially distancing morons. 

 

I believe the 'ultra-conservative Buddhist loonies' really do think they've been sent from above to tell everybody what to do. 

[Olmate]

1 minute ago, MaiDong said:

 

And this is it in a nutshell. We avoid leaving the house at the weekend because everywhere is packed full of non-socially distancing morons. 

 

I believe the 'ultra-conservative Buddhist loonies' really do think they've been sent from above to tell everybody what to do. 

Are you having "2 bob each way" there? 

[Mr Meeseeks]

10 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

I can see the Govt's point, maybe buying food to eat or medicine for a life threatening disease is more important than having a beer.

 

There is a sub forum in Thai Visa's Health and Medicine forum which may help you!

If you have a life threatening disease you aren't popping down the local pharmacy to get your meds and they closed restaurants too, so they mustn't think eating is all that important either. However I can now sit and eat but I can't sit and eat and have a beer. Am I more likely to catch or transmit COVID-19 by having a beer in the exact same place? No. 

 

The point is that they are halfheartedly trying to stop people being close to one and other but there's no logic to their actions as wet markets and other places that are likely to see cases of transmission are still open with few restrictions. Banning alcohol seems to be the go-to solution but behind it I smell the whiff of the ultra-conservative Buddhist loony elites. 

 

What I see happening now is they will relax restrictions due to economic pressures and then we'll see the leap to 10,000+ cases per day over the next few weeks as complacency sets in again.

 

I was right about this wave coming after Songkhran and I will be proven right again. Bookmark this post.

Edited June 3, 2021 by Mr Meeseeks

[Excel]

9 minutes ago, MaiDong said:

 

And this is it in a nutshell. We avoid leaving the house at the weekend because everywhere is packed full of non-socially distancing morons. 

 

I believe the 'ultra-conservative Buddhist loonies' really do think they've been sent from above to tell everybody what to do. 

Spot on but I would add to your quote of 'ultra-conservative Buddhist loonies' really do think they've been sent from above to tell everybody what to do" to also include " and to scam money from the gullible poor"

[rott]

9 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

I can see the Govt's point, maybe buying food to eat or medicine for a life threatening disease is more important than having a beer.

 

There is a sub forum in Thai Visa's Health and Medicine forum which may help you!

The people having a few beers at Pattaya bars when they were open did not cause any mass outbreaks. Especially considering that many of them would be classed as being in "at risk" groups. 

[LosLobo]

2 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

If you have a life threatening disease you aren't popping down the local pharmacy to get your meds they closed restaurants too, so they mustn't think eating is all that important either. However I can now sit and eat but I can't sit and eat and have a beer. Am I more likely to catch or transmit COVID-19 by having a beer in the exact same place? No. 

 

The point is that they are half-heartedly trying to stop people being close to one and other but there's no logic to their actions as wet markets and other places that are likely to see cases of transmission are still open with few restrictions. Banning alcohol seems to be the go-to solution but behind it I smell the whiff of the ultra-conservative Buddhist loony elites. 

 

What I see happening is they will relax restrictions due to economic pressures and then we'll see the leap to 10,000+ cases per day over the next few weeks as complacency sets in again.

 

I was right about this wave coming after Songkhran and I will be proven right again. Bookmark this post.

Au contraire, I have high blood pressure, a life threatening disease. I regularly pop down to the local pharmacy for my essential medication.

[Mr Meeseeks]

2 hours ago, rott said:

The people having a few beers at Pattaya bars when they were open did not cause any mass outbreaks. Especially considering that many of them would be classed as being in "at risk" groups. 

Ironically it was persons in the very same government that allegedly went to clubs in Thong Lor drinking Johnny Walker and contributed to the start of this wave. 

Edited June 3, 2021 by blackcab
One word removed

[smedly]

I know this is impossible .......but

 

What if tomorrow they tested every person in Thailand - how many would test positive

- 3000

- 30,000

- 300,000

 

it is an interesting thought provoking question

[Mr Meeseeks]

1 minute ago, LosLobo said:

Au contraire, I have high blood pressure, a life threatening disease. I regularly pop down to the local pharmacy for my essential medication.

Sorry to hear that.

 

I suffered from hypertension for a while in my 30's because of my bad lifestyle; boozing, smoking, diet etc. I started regular exercise and changed my diet and that sorted it out. 

[LosLobo]

7 minutes ago, rott said:

The people having a few beers at Pattaya bars when they were open did not cause any mass outbreaks. Especially considering that many of them would be classed as being in "at risk" groups. 

Because you or someone else never had a car accident last week does that mean that the law for everybody wearing seat belts should be abolished?

Edited June 3, 2021 by LosLobo