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Thailand on Sunday reported 3,995 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 42 more deaths from the coronavirus epidemic.

 

45 of the cases were from prisons.

 

Official data shows that more than 85 percent of infections have been recorded since early April when the third wave of COVID-19 started, according to the Center for the COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

 

Thailand has now reported a daily case tally above 3,000 for 11 consecutive days.

 

Bangkok still tops the list of regions with the highest number of new cases reported. The CCSA says most of the new cases are linked to  clusters found at construction sites and migrant workers camps.

 

On Friday, the government announced a one-month lockdown for construction worker camps in Bangkok and surrounding provinces as well as four southern provinces starting from Monday.

 

Late on Saturday, new restrictions were announced for Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Nakhon Pathom.

 

The restrictions, which start on Monday and have already been posted in the Royal Gazette, will see dining in restaurants and gatherings of more than 20 people prohibited. Malls are also required to close at  9pm.

 

As of Saturday, Thailand has administered 8.98 million vaccine doses, with 2.55 million people now fully vaccinated. 

 

 

 

 

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and there will be no way to know the true numbers because now they are stopping testing in bkk... What a wonderful world I can see with my pink tinted  glasses...

Chonburi Public Health Office has just announced they have 155  new cases. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (48), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (25), and Si Racha (38). The total cases so far is now 7,682 with 2,359 remaining in care #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1408949670085160966

 

Chonburi has announced the closure of Phongsak Market in Mueang Chonburi from 27 June - 10 July. Also, the following places are off limits from 8pm-4am: Bang Saen Beach, Wonnapha Beach, Laem Taen, and Khao Sam Muk Viewpoint #ThaiNewsReports #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1408957343635677187

 

#COVID19 UPDATE on SUNDAY:

 

42 deaths and 3,995 cases (45 from prisons). Full details at 12:30pm #Thailand

 

22 June: 4,059 - 35 dead

23 June: 3,174 - 51 dead

24 June: 4,108 - 31 dead

25 June: 3,644 - 44 dead

26 June: 4,161 - 51 dead

27 June: 3,995 - 42 dead <— TODAY

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1408952689128448005

 

Well folks I see we have hit the new normal as far as cases and deaths, not much more to expect until testing restars and beds become available.

Once the Delta takes over then these numbers will be miniscule. We know that the true number is under-reported but to what factor we cant be sure. X10? Maybe. The numbers now are way to much to contact trace, the testing, well again we all know the reality there so when the Delta variant takes over true numbers of infected will be in the 100's of thousands in a system that is barely coping now. If the Delta is in the workers camps then the infection rate in these will be massive. These people just don't sit in the these camps they go to markets and 711's and the like. In Aus they are saying that Delta transmission in family settings is 100%.

6 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Well folks I see we have hit the new normal as far as cases and deaths, not much more to expect until testing restars and beds become available.

Serious question. 

If they did want to ramp up testing, (I don't mean hospitals), I mean in the general population. Not clusters etc, but rather general random testing.....how is that actually done? 

Set up a testing station and rely on people turning up.? 

2 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Serious question. 

If they did want to ramp up testing, (I don't mean hospitals), I mean in the general population. Not clusters etc, but rather general random testing.....how is that actually done? 

Set up a testing station and rely on people turning up.? 

Yes. That's what other countries do. 

Little India 

3 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

In Aus they are saying that Delta transmission in family settings is 100%.

Not sure if it's Oz (but I think so) .....they did a study of transmission of original covid virus with the new boy Delta and found that previously it was 'minutes' of close proximity with the original to just seconds with delta. 

No source, happy if someone can confirm or otherwise.

12 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Well folks I see we have hit the new normal as far as cases and deaths, not much more to expect until testing restars and beds become available.

Let’s think about this for a moment.

 

if hospital beds are 100% full, then there can be no new hospital walk-in cases.  But, people do leave the hospital when they recover, so some beds are made available each day. We get that number in the reports. The problem is that the recovered number includes asymptomatic patients who were house in field hospitals for 14 days, so we don’t know how many beds in Covid wards in hospitals are made available each day.

 

 

 

so, we will still see new walk-in cases reported, even when hospitals claim 100% occupancy.

2 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Not sure if it's Oz (but I think so) .....they did a study of transmission of original covid virus with the new boy Delta and found that previously it was 'minutes' of close proximity with the original to just seconds with delta. 

No source, happy if someone can confirm or otherwise.

I have learned not to believe such reports until they become the medical consensus. We get lots of conflicting claims about Covid in the media.

4 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Yes. That's what other countries do. 

If they changed the consequences of a positive test to self isolation at home then fine, I would take a test. However if it meant possibility of field cardboard bed then count me out 

5 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Yes. That's what other countries do. 

Several of my Thai wife's friends have bought self test kits back from the UK to Thailand. They are available for free from pharmacies.

According to Worldometer Thailand is number 145 in tests per million population. Bangkok hospitals are refusing tests because they can't treat infected persons. At the Sattahip morning market vendors are running away from people performing tests because they are afraid of being locked out of work for 14 days if they test positive. 

 

And in spite of all of the above, Thailand is in the top 20 list of most new daily infections. 

4 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Not sure if it's Oz (but I think so) .....they did a study of transmission of original covid virus with the new boy Delta and found that previously it was 'minutes' of close proximity with the original to just seconds with delta. 

No source, happy if someone can confirm or otherwise.

That's right. They're calling it fleeting contact transmission. 

Those new restrictions don't seem enough.  I mean, are the migrant workers likely to be going to restaurants in groups of more than 20 and drinking there in the evenings? 

 

And what is a locked of the worker camps? Is it locking them inside? That will trap them all together and ensure they all catch Covid 19 from each other.

 

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

If they changed the consequences of a positive test to self isolation at home then fine, I would take a test. However if it meant possibility of field cardboard bed then count me out 

This is the big problem. Home isolation is also a big problem with as I previously stated if the Delta variant takes hold family transmission seems to be a given. It is a complex situation without doubt.

8 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I have learned not to believe such reports until they become the medical consensus. We get lots of conflicting claims about Covid in the media.

Fleeting transmission. You wish to disbelieve it's up to you.

7 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I have learned not to believe such reports until they become the medical consensus. We get lots of conflicting claims about Covid in the media.

Here is one cut and paste from national geographic. There are many studies regarding transmission rates for Mr Delta.

 

The Delta variant is 60 percent more transmissible than the Alpha variant—first identified in the U.K.—which in turn was about 50 percent more transmissible than the ancestral Wuhan strain. “It’s a super spreader variant, that is worrisome,” says Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. It has features that enable escape from the immune system and is perhaps more evasive than the Beta variant (B.1.351) first identified in South Africa, which was the worst until now, says Topol. “Plus, it has the highest transmissibility of anything we've seen so far. It's a very bad combination.

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 25th June only) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases.

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

1.  Stop inter-provincial traveling

2.  no tourists.  Thais only

3.  we need the VAX

 

If there are enough vaccines, we should be OK in a few months.

 

we are NOT in panic mode.   

 

 

23 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Serious question. 

If they did want to ramp up testing, (I don't mean hospitals), I mean in the general population. Not clusters etc, but rather general random testing.....how is that actually done? 

Set up a testing station and rely on people turning up.? 

Random testing going house to house or street to street would be what I could see, but outside of the cluster areas and the known locations.

4 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

 

 

we are NOT in panic mode.   

 

 

Tell that to those who can't get a hospital bed in Bangkok and are suffering serious effects from covid

2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Random testing going house to house or street to street would be what I could see, but outside of the cluster areas and the known locations.

Just cannot imagine that remotely possible. 

15 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Not sure if it's Oz (but I think so) .....they did a study of transmission of original covid virus with the new boy Delta and found that previously it was 'minutes' of close proximity with the original to just seconds with delta. 

No source, happy if someone can confirm or otherwise.

Darwin has just been given 1 hours notice before going into a snap lockdown.I've heard the term fleeting used to describe the time for transmission to take place.20 of 30 people at the party cluster have now tested positive so that's a pretty big R0 number like R20 so it sounds like it pretty intense which raises further questions about the situation here in Thailand.They seem to be intent to make themselves look as bad and incompetent as possible here.I also wonder how the world will view the sealing off of labourers for 1 month.There reputation for number 4 for dealing with the pandemic seems have unravelled.

10 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

1.  Stop inter-provincial traveling

2.  no tourists.  Thais only

3.  we need the VAX

 

If there are enough vaccines, we should be OK in a few months.

 

we are NOT in panic mode.   

 

 

We are in denial mode!

20 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Several of my Thai wife's friends have bought self test kits back from the UK to Thailand. They are available for free from pharmacies.

My insurance company in the US, and the lab they partner with for testing all blood work will also supply a home test kit free of charge.  Swab yourself, put it into a tube, seal it as instructed and mail back in the postage paid overnight mailer case they send with the test.  48 hours later you will get a call at your number with the results as well as an e-mail to your secured medical account.

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Tell that to those who can't get a hospital bed in Bangkok and are suffering serious effects from covid

"We" means Thailand

 

EVERYDAY people are in panic mode!!!!  Everyday someone suffers, dies.......

 

I'm talking about the entire country.   We, everyone.

 

People are suffering right now in my city, yet my city is NOT in panic mode.