Thailand reports 4,161 new COVID-19 cases, 51 more deaths

[brewsterbudgen]

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Whether she did or not, it was tragic and her parents will be distraught. Its enough for them to know the reasons not us to try and delve into them

Of course. I would hope they're not reading this forum. However, it would be interesting for us to know and I'm sure it must be being covered in the Thai media, so hopefully someone will update us.

[FarFlungFalang]

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

Not all cold viruses are coronaviruses. 

 

Not all coronaviruses are Covid-19. 

No viruses are covid 19. Covid 19 is a disease not a virus.

[DrJack54]

52 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

I was thinking you have been long time in Thailand and still you dont know anything how Thais act! Every neibor know where people have been, in smaller village hole village know where people have been! If there is rules and you know obey , people can call police and you get fine! 

Read my posts on this. I AM NOT referring to a village. Simple. I'm referring to example drive or fly to a city in another provience and stay in a CITY. I even gave example Udon Thani. 

 

 

[rabas]

28 minutes ago, bluedoc said:

Hospitals are not testing, people are coming in to hospitals because they are sick, they are being diagnosed as suffering from the Covid virus. Testing is only being done when a cluster emerges. There are approx 5-8,000 tests being carried out. The figures are simple 10% of all people tested are found to have Covid. Now multiply that by the number of adults nationwide and you’ll get the figure That have Covid.

69 million people, so let’s be generous, 3.5 million people will have Covid. (Not including kids).

 

Cluster by definition means all in one place. You cannot then generalize to the whole country!

 

If you tested say Bansuknak in Phutthaisong and found no cases , does that mean there are no cases in Thailand?

 

Many infectious diseases particularity COVID spread in clusters, delta even more so. There is no mechanism for such a disease to arise uniformly throughout a large country.

 

[anchadian]

8 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Yes. Do you know if she had any underlying health conditions? Very unusual for someone so young to die from Covid alone.

Where does it say that it was a 'she'?

[Swimfan]

We just went into full lockdown in  greater Sydney and surrounding regional district for 14 days 10 minutes ago. 
The delta variant has them seriously concerned. 
with 100 cases from a single case in seven days including 17 from 30 who attended a birthday party last week.

The number of potential exposure sites has reached over 300 and is now starting to stretch the capacity of effective contact tracing. 
we are talking about people becoming infected just by walking past each other. They are finding  that people are also becoming infectious and transmitting the virus only 2 days after contracting it. 
We know this variant is now in Thailand and it is a totally different beast entirely from the alpha variant. 
stay safe

[Almer]

Sone it will be  tens of thousands  a day and deaths in the thousands, just look at every other country

[wensiensheng]

9 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Yes. Do you know if she had any underlying health conditions? Very unusual for someone so young to die from Covid alone.

I think it’s uncommon, but not unusual for a young person to die of Covid without underlying conditions. 
 

before you ask, I will see if I can dig up some research on that. But anecdotally, I have read several articles referring to young healthy people dying.  So I wouldn’t classify it as “ very unusual”.

[Danderman123]

3 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

No viruses are covid 19. Covid 19 is a disease not a virus.

Not all coronaviruses cause Covid-19. 

 

Covid-19 is not caused by a cold virus. 

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

 I already predicted your  extremly predictable answer, congrats. Bieng as a  few  months  back you were blathering on about Thailand being in control and how everything was  fine  I'm not surprised.

Well a few months back.....let us say 3, in March, it did look that way. Complacency got the better of them.....

[wensiensheng]

1 hour ago, Rampant Rabbit said:

For the vast majority it is no  problem, talk of covid is  like talk of the balck death, even if it was a 10% fatality rate that leaves 90% ok , no need  to blather on about  long covid or "tell that to the x  million dead".  When it hits a 50%  death rate  well thats a whole  real  problem.

Just so I can get a handle on this death rate thing:

 

1. I am 72 and have diabetes. What is my likely fatality rate.

 

2. I am 64, but generally fit. What is my fatality rate?

 

3. I am 40 but with a congenital heart condition. What is my fatality rate?

 

4. I am 24 with no underlying health conditions. What is my fatality rate.

 

the reasons for these questions? The fatality rate that is important is the one that applies to YOU. Those who have a 1% fatality rate need to help out those who have a 10% or 50% fatality rate. They do that by following Covid safe practices and being vaccinated.

 

of course some will say, I’m all right Jack, sod you.

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

These are terrible numbers. We’ll have to see the hospital walk-in admissions to see if hospitals have capped testing.

 

There isn’t enough testing, and the vaccination campaign is insufficient.

But lets open up the country... this isn't going to end well.

[DrJack54]

7 minutes ago, Almer said:

Sone it will be  tens of thousands  a day and deaths in the thousands, just look at every other country

The wind will blow it away. 

[Bkk Brian]

This was back when it started and many of us posters were being routinely labelled as doomsayers, looks like most of the warning have come true and even surpassed what some experts predicted:

 

 

 

Thailand Health Ministry

The Public Health Ministry is warning the public that partying and letting ones guard down could see daily Covid-19 infections rise to nearly 3,000. Opas Karnkawinpong from the Disease Control Department says

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/health-ministry-predicts-5-likely-covid-outcomes-post-songkran-warns-of-risks-posed-by-partying

 

Dr. Prasit Watanapha,

Thailand’s new COVID-19 infections are expected to increase rapidly during the two weeks following the Songkran holidays, especially now that the UK strain of the virus is spreading, according to Dr. Prasit Watanapha, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Siriraj Hospital, speaking during a recent live interview with Thai PBS World.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/expert-warns-of-high-chance-of-wider-covid-19-outbreak-during-songkran/

 

Department of Disease Control (DDC) deputy director-general Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn

More than 28,000 people could be infected by COVID-19 per day over the next month if no disease control measures are put in place during the current spike.

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/more-than-28000-people-could-be-infected-by-covid-19-per-day-over-the-next-month/10157945061207050/

 

 

Dr Yong

"Thailand’s top virologist, Dr. Yong Poovorawan, says the current rate of COVID-19 infection is more serious than a year ago and suggests that the tradition of visiting the elderly, to receive their blessings, be replaced with virtual visits, to reduce the risk of infection."

 

“Assuming that the infections this year are ten times higher than they were last year, and the preventive measures are ten times less effective than they were last year, that means that the severity of the pandemic this year will be 100 times greater than it was last year,” said Dr. Yong.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/dr-yong-proposes-virtual-visits-to-elderly-over-songkran-to-limit-covid-19-spread/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

19 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Not all coronaviruses cause Covid-19. 

 

Covid-19 is not caused by a cold virus. 

Who said all corona viruses caused Covid 19?Are you clutching at straws?I will say that Covid 19 is only caused by a corona virus!It's not caused by any other type of virus is it?Does the common cold kill people?Yes it does.Sometimes it kills a lot of people so don't under estimate the common cold because it can kill.

[Bkk Brian]

Blue bar hospital walk ins, the lucky ones who were able to actually get tested and so get treatment for those who were sick. 

 

Yello bar the oh so small amount of active testing that found cases.

 

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/260664.pdf

[ThailandRyan]

50 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Who? Oh, you mean the health minister that some people used to listen to, before he lost 100% of the small amount of credibility he once had? 

Your joking right, are you sure he ever had any credibility at all?  I don' think so.

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Covid-19 patient dies after waiting 1 week for ICU bed

 

As Bangkok faces a health crisis of bed shortages for Covid-19 patients, one woman died after waiting a week to be assigned an ICU bed. The woman was 38 years old from Laos and lived in Ban Krua Nuea in Bangkok. She suspected that she caught Covid-19 at her work selling clothes around Pratunam Market.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/bangkok/covid-19-patient-dies-after-waiting-1-week-for-icu-bed

Probably placed Thai's ahead of her as she was a migrant worker.  Hope that's not the case, if it was then all hell should be breaking loose at least at the Lao embassy.

[Excel]

41 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

He surely has been vaccinated. Two jabs of what I wonder and which strain has he got?

Karma strain perhaps

[anchadian]

Phuket vaccination push riddled with confusion and claims

 

PHUKET: The push to vaccinate as many people as possible before the July 1 deadline next Thursday took another hit yesterday (June 24) as foreigners were turned away from vaccination centres after presenting themselves for their second injection as instructed by Phuket health officials.

 

While foreigners were being turned away at the vaccination centre set up at the Central Phuket shopping mall, The Phuket News was receiving confirmed reports of foreigners receiving their vaccination injections as previously organised at other centres, including at the Jungceylon shopping center in Patong and at the Angsana Laguna Phuket resort in Bang Tao, Cherng Talay.

 

The Phuket News also confirmed that some foreigners did receive their second vaccination injection at the Central Phuket centre earlier in the day yesterday, in the morning, before foreigners at about midday were told to come back later “at their scheduled appointment”.

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-vaccination-push-riddled-with-confusion-and-claims-80462.php

[club]

7 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

These are terrible numbers. We’ll have to see the hospital walk-in admissions to see if hospitals have capped testing.

 

There isn’t enough testing, and the vaccination campaign is insufficient.

Vaccination campaign is a joke. 

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, Excel said:

Karma strain perhaps

Maybe a strain from a private party in the back room having some alcohol and singing karaoke with his brethren.

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, anchadian said:

Jungceylon shopping center in Patong

I'm booked in for AZ there on Monday, hopefully I'll not be turned away

[ThailandRyan]

6 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Phuket vaccination push riddled with confusion and claims

 

PHUKET: The push to vaccinate as many people as possible before the July 1 deadline next Thursday took another hit yesterday (June 24) as foreigners were turned away from vaccination centres after presenting themselves for their second injection as instructed by Phuket health officials.

 

While foreigners were being turned away at the vaccination centre set up at the Central Phuket shopping mall, The Phuket News was receiving confirmed reports of foreigners receiving their vaccination injections as previously organised at other centres, including at the Jungceylon shopping center in Patong and at the Angsana Laguna Phuket resort in Bang Tao, Cherng Talay.

 

The Phuket News also confirmed that some foreigners did receive their second vaccination injection at the Central Phuket centre earlier in the day yesterday, in the morning, before foreigners at about midday were told to come back later “at their scheduled appointment”.

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-vaccination-push-riddled-with-confusion-and-claims-80462.php

Can I get my second vaccination as scheduled today? No sir your a foreigner and only Thais are allowed.  Man calls neighbor who is at another vaccination site and is shown a picture of him getting vaccinated.  Hospital worker says sorry sir that must be an old photo, because no Foreigners are allowed to be vaccinated.  Man calls the Governor who lives in the big house across the street, Governor says, ahhhh crapppp, the sandbox is now full of cat feces....

[club]

43 minutes ago, Swimfan said:

We just went into full lockdown in  greater Sydney and surrounding regional district for 14 days 10 minutes ago. 
The delta variant has them seriously concerned. 
with 100 cases from a single case in seven days including 17 from 30 who attended a birthday party last week.

The number of potential exposure sites has reached over 300 and is now starting to stretch the capacity of effective contact tracing. 
we are talking about people becoming infected just by walking past each other. They are finding  that people are also becoming infectious and transmitting the virus only 2 days after contracting it. 
We know this variant is now in Thailand and it is a totally different beast entirely from the alpha variant. 
stay safe

And sorry you Sinovac lovers, Sinovac does not stop the delta variant

[Macrohistory]

22 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Who said all corona viruses caused Covid 19?Are you clutching at straws?I will say that Covid 19 is only caused by a corona virus!It's not caused by any other type of virus is it?Does the common cold kill people?Yes it does.Sometimes it kills a lot of people so don't under estimate the common cold because it can kill.

 

Hang on a second!  If a virus "sometimes kills a lot of people," it's not "common."  It's not a common cold or anything else.  It's a deadly something or other.  Why do you insist on putting the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the same category as the various kinds of viruses that cause the common (and very rarely deadly) cold?

 

[mrfill]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

I would ask that if one were to mix the AZ vaccination with a second of Moderna, being that that ones an MRNA vaccine, if it would give top performance, asking for my friends dog.....

Is your friends dog German by any chance??   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57571791

[The Hammer2021]

7 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

These are terrible numbers. We’ll have to see the hospital walk-in admissions to see if hospitals have capped testing.

 

There isn’t enough testing, and the vaccination campaign is insufficient.

What vaccination campaign? Where can I get vaccinated?

[ThailandRyan]

5 minutes ago, mrfill said:

Is your friends dog German by any chance??   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57571791

He is a GS, so ding ding ding, winner.

[Bkk Brian]

Buri Ram taking measures to stop the workers from Bangkok fleeing back.

 

Buri Ram imposes 14-day anti-COVID-19 quarantine on all arrivals from Bangkok

 

Thailand’s northeastern province of Buri Ram has taken preventives measure in preparation for the possible arrival of workers from Bangkok and its vicinities, following the closure of construction worker housing there, by mandating that all arrivals will be subject to 14-days of local quarantine.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/buri-ram-imposes-14-day-anti-covid-19-quarantine-on-all-arrivals-from-bangkok/