Reuters file photo: A woman receives Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine after hundreds of residents in the district tested positive for the coronavirus disease in Bangkok, Thailand, April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

Thailand on Friday (June 18) reported 3,058 new COVID-19 cases and 22 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.

● 2,599 new infections

● 459 prison / prison infections

Friday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 210,782 with 1,577 deaths.

(Total infections since April 1: 181,919)

 

The news comes as Thailand’s airports are preparing for the full reopening of the country to foreign visitors in four months, a goal set by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

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Rolling 7 day average (up to 16th June only) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases.

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

Weekly trend line back on the up

Today's local Covid19 situation in #Chonburi, a rise in cases to 142, driven primarily by market worker communities and their close contacts.

 

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/06/18/chonburi-announces-142-new-cases-of-covid-19-primarily-driven-by-market-worker-clusters-and-their-close-contacts/

#COVID19 UPDATE on FRIDAY: 22 deaths and 3,058 cases (459 from prisons). Full details at 12:30pm #Thailand

 

13 June: 2,804 - 18 dead

14 June: 3,355 - 17 dead

15 June: 3,000 - 19 dead

16 June: 2,331 - 40 dead

17 June: 3,129 - 30 dead

18 June: 3,058 - 22 dead <— TODAY

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1405691020688322561

 

14-20k infections and 170-200+deaths a wk which hasn't changed for a couple of months since the situation was allowed to get out of control. Vaccination rate poor. B.1.617.2 now starting to circulate. My question is what is going to change in the next 4 months to allow full openning. 

 

Southeast Asia saw the highest number of Covid-19 cases in over a month on Thursday, while the death toll was the second highest, collated data showed.

nationthailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40002167

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

My question is what is going to change in the next 4 months to allow full openning.

One would think that a big component would be vaccination. It's been hopeless so far. 

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

full reopening of the country to foreign visitors in four months, 

Never gonna happen. And only 4 months away, how are they going to squeeze in all the 100s of meetings to decide all the 1000s of complicated rules and documents in such a short time? 

Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=341678937470802&set=p.341678937470802&type=3

3 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Never gonna happen. And only 4 months away, how are they going to squeeze in all the 100s of meetings to decide all the 1000s of complicated rules and documents in such a short time? 

They'll form a committee to figure that out of course, silly you!

5 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

One would think that a big component would be vaccination. It's been hopeless so far. 

Vaccination yes, but they need vaccines that are still effective against the variants. So they need 100 million doses of Pfizer or Moderna, as well as 25000 registered nurses to give the shots.

Edited June 18, 20215 yr by Boomer6969

10 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

My question is what is going to change in the next 4 months to allow full openning. 

 

Reduced testing and reduced reporting of cases?

 

Failing that, I'd imagine the plan to open will be withdrawn and declared a big misunderstanding.

For those not following closely, a recent uptick of hospital walk-in cases has been followed by an uptick in overall  new cases. If this trend continues, this wave will not disappate until vaccinations are widespread. 

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

For those not following closely, a recent uptick of hospital walk-in cases has been followed by an uptick in overall  new cases. If this trend continues, this wave will not disappate until vaccinations are widespread. 

Good morning David and pleased to read that after how many weeks ? you have now discovered reality. As you rightly say it will not dissipate until vaccinations are widespread, that would also mean receiving 2 doses at the correct interval, not just one. Given this corrupt governments stance to ignore almost 90% of the population then that could take some time don't you think ?

2 minutes ago, Excel said:

Good morning David and pleased to read that after how many weeks ? you have now discovered reality. As you rightly say it will not dissipate until vaccinations are widespread, that would also mean receiving 2 doses at the correct interval, not just one. Given this corrupt governments stance to ignore almost 90% of the population then that could take some time don't you think ?

I just follow the data. 

 

We are not yet at the point where eradicating the wave is impossible before herd immunity is reached. But that point is getting near. 

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

I just follow the data. 

 

We are not yet at the point where eradicating the wave is impossible before herd immunity is reached. But that point is getting near. 

True but as yet no one has found a way to stop a Tsunami

15 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Reduced testing and reduced reporting of cases?

 

Failing that, I'd imagine the plan to open will be withdrawn and declared a big misunderstanding.

I fear that no matter what the data says, they will just go ahead and open. As is currently the case with Phuket.

 

the stupid thing is, they are working against themselves. Not only are they taking a health risk, if they get over run with Covid, there will be no tourists anyway.

 

It’s a very high risk gamble economically as well as medically.

4 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Thanks for the color commentary. While Gov. Newsom has declared today a 'good day', California still logged 825 new COVID cases and 19 COVID-related deaths the same day.

Ergo what do you think will happen in Thailand when they open up and no restrictions are in place, and the vaccinations are not close to 70%. Try again.

2 minutes ago, Excel said:

True but as yet no one has found a way to stop a Tsunami

And herd immunity has not been proven anywhere yet, it is just a myth in my book at this point. Maybe several years from now we may have it, but nowhere close now.

6 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Ergo what do you think will happen in Thailand when they open up and no restrictions are in place, and the vaccinations are not close to 70%. Try again.

I don't have the slightest idea. I just follow the play-by-play and leave the color commentary up to persons like yourself.

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

And herd immunity has not been proven anywhere yet, it is just a myth in my book at this point. Maybe several years from now we may have it, but nowhere close now.

I agree.
 

In my book so called herd immunity simply means that the hospital system has to cope with cases arising from (mostly) 30% of the population, that the virus runs out of potential hosts more quickly (although variants can render that meaningless), and that the at risk people have been protected (if the vaccination program has been properly targeted). It has nothing to do with “immunity” at all.

 

hence, several of those smaller nations who have already claimed herd immunity, have seen considerable rises in cases.

 

it’s a concern that Thailand, amongst others, seem to think that reaching 70% vaccination levels means that somehow a switch has been flicked and the virus will be gone. It won’t be.

 

 

2 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

I don't have the slightest idea. I just follow the play-by-play and leave the color commentary up to persons like yourself.

So you just read and bait...well on ignore you go.

2 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Prior to vaccination, Israel had thousands of cases every day. Today they have 27 new cases. 

 

The US went from 300,000 cases a day to 10,000. You are not keeping up on current events. 

 

Yes by vaccination but true herd immunity comes from people having the virus and the body building immunities. Not always possible though.

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/herd-immunity&ved=2ahUKEwit492IjqDxAhVmzTgGHRAIAt4QFjAPegQIChAC&usg=AOvVaw0AqrZmiGX8W9INdrNW5uKy

2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

So you just read and bait...well on ignore you go.

Thanks -- I like reading your opinions because they come from the realm of "If you only knew" intrigue.

Along with the international community, Thailand is implementing a mass vaccination programme to create herd immunity and end the Covid-19 pandemic

 

The programme's success depends mainly on the speed of vaccine distribution and the assurance of people's safety after the vaccination. All vaccines are authorised for emergency use only. There is a chance that some vaccine recipients may experience adverse events.

 

To protect them from adverse effects after the vaccination, on May 3, the National Health Security Board introduced a no-fault compensation programme for individuals who find undesired outcomes after the vaccination.

 

Not only 49 million people whose health is insured under the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS) will benefit from this programme, but another 17 million people from the Social Security Scheme and Civil Servant Medical Benefits Scheme will also be compensated for adverse events.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40002168

Although Thailand is not specifically mentioned in this, I think the article is equally relevant to Thailand’ state of play. The only difference is that whilst it’s suggested that the countries covered do not have an exit strategy and so are only cautiously opening as vaccination rates rise, Thailand has opted for 120 days or bust as an opening strategy

 

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57492961

36 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

Vaccination yes, but they need vaccines that are still effective against the variants. So they need 100 million doses of Pfizer or Moderna, as well as 25000 registered nurses to give the shots.

 

It'll be interesting to see how Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are distributed once they do arrive.  Will people who haven't yet been vaccinated be priority?  Or will these vaccines first go to the folks who have already gotten two jabs of a less effective vaccine - some of whom used influence or connections to skip the queue?

Some off topic posts about oil in Phuket and something about California have been removed, also replies

Ramping up nicely  now