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Cases less than yesterday. Think we've passed the peak.

4 minutes ago, mommysboy said:

 

The AZ vaccine is very effective if you can get it.

You had any shots?

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I wonder what the positivity rate is, and how many of the cases today are from walk-ins seeking help because they are ill.

According to the graphic Tall Guy posted it's just over 11% from which I calculated testing numbers of around 53,780 from todays case numbers.

2 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

According to the graphic Tall Guy posted it's just over 11% from which I calculated testing numbers of around 53,780 from todays case numbers.

I did see that, but for some reason it didn't click on in my brain.  Lack of coffee after my 10Km jaunt around the park this early morning apparently.  Have a great day FFF.

1 hour ago, smedly said:

I wonder how long before another variant shows up that makes Delta look like a walk in the park 

It's also possible for a variant to come along which is much less deadly than what we've seen. I believe that's how the previous SARS pandemic came to an end.

22 minutes ago, mommysboy said:

 

The AZ vaccine is very effective if you can get it.

I believe its not as effective as the Moderna and Pfizer. It certainly is better then Shinovax. GF got Astra through her company. First shot done. 

 

I am waiting for Moderna, if i have to take something i prefer the best. Plus it would be hard for me to get astra anyway as im not old enough or in the Thai system.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57214596

2 hours ago, Excel said:

We are all with you on this one. The shortage of beds in Bangkok is now critical to other parts of the country.  A village in our Amphur is now in crisis as is our local community hospital. Five people travelled up from Bangkok on Thursday as they were fearing the worst regarding contracting the virus in Bangkok. By the time they arrived they were feeling unwell. However they stayed in their village house overnight isolated as is a local requirement for returnees, but with with their elderly parents !! Friday morning all five went to the hospital, whereas they should have phoned first. We learned this morning that they were tested positive for Covid, strain unknown at this time. Their elderly parents were taken in for checking yesterday also.  Our community hospital late last night evacuated all normal patients to nearest hospitals , and is currently shutdown and isolated ( hopefully). So Bangkoks problem is now our problem out  in the sticks where no one is vaccinated.

If anything good come out of this then hopefully the health authorities will now ensure our hospital doctors, nurses and ancillary staff will now be given vaccinations, something that has been denied them so far. Now if this is an example of what has happened recently around the country as a whole then the future for normality is grim indeed.

We have a similar situation in a nearby village with 5 returnees carted off to Yasothon hospital, the misses said they have covid but I think they went for testing and I haven't heard anything more.Yasothon has have 11 cases 2 days in a row.Lots of elderly and vulnerable out here.No word of any vaccinations.

24 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

Chumpair Khon Kaen kids in quarantine! Not Nice to separate kids from parents!

The disparity in the way this is being handled is to me mind boggling.

4 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

We have a similar situation in a nearby village with 5 returnees carted off to Yasothon hospital, the misses said they have covid but I think they went for testing and I haven't heard anything more.Yasothon has have 11 cases 2 days in a row.Lots of elderly and vulnerable out here.No word of any vaccinations.

Prospects not good and you and I have only quoted 2 examples where the whole covid fiasco in Thailand is "going off the rails"

2 minutes ago, Excel said:

Prospects not good and you and I have only quoted 2 examples where the whole covid fiasco in Thailand is "going off the rails"

I'm  concerned that resources for critical care are being shipped off to Bangkok which will threaten the ability of the medical services out here to effectively cope with what is coming.

1 minute ago, FarFlungFalang said:

I'm  concerned that resources for critical care are being shipped off to Bangkok which will threaten the ability of the medical services out here to effectively cope with what is coming.

Well this government has no concern for 98% of the nation. Sure they will bleed vital resources away from the provinces to BKK, just like minimal amounts of vaccine were sent to the provinces, the lions share for their money making pals in places like Phuket, after of course all the HISOs and the rest of their sycophants received their two doses. Nothing is new, just the same old corrupt looking after themselves.

Does anyone have any information about Oxygen supply ? And if we will see people running round with canisters like India ? In hub of rip offs and cons, as I think many are about to die if they get low.

3 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

Catastrophic, Delta taking over but no vaccine... 

why do you need vaccines, we the hi-so have been jabbed along with the pretend government members - so the rest of you sort out your own mess .........????????????????

3 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

 Dr. Yong Poovorawan, chief of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology of the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University, said the majority of new cases being found in Thailand are of the Delta variant.

Which might have just gone nationwide.

49 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

Chumpair Khon Kaen kids in quarantine! Not Nice to separate kids from parents!

<deleted>, I thought we'd passed the 1930s... 

3 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Doctors think there is something to be very concerned about, government doesn't seem to. There is no logical or medical reason for these numbers to drop by October when Mr. Empty Head says Thailand will fully reopen.. Vaccines will not help as not enough people are vaccinated. For things to be under control numbers being mentioned are 70 - 80% of the population needs to be fully vaccinated. Thailand will now be number 65 on the covid-19 charts. In three months Thailand has jumped over 52 countries.  

Delta variant taking over with no vaccines that seems to be the ones that can have an affect.

This is going to get ugly very quickly.

2 minutes ago, RotBenz8888 said:

<deleted>, I thought we'd passed the 1930s... 

Not in Thailand. Those that run it hark back to the 1830's or even the 1730's more like

1 minute ago, hotchilli said:

Which might have just gone nationwide.

Because of the mass exodus already from Bangkok due to the restaurants being closed and then all of the construction sites being shut.  Walked by the One Bangkok site and then Queen Sirikit convention center sites yesterday evening and they were eerily quiet with only security guards waking around.  Been very strange not to see any of the orange shirted workers around town either.  Park was fairly empty again this morning here in Sathon. 

52 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

You had any shots?

 

No, I can't register on Intervac website, but it's been really good in the UK.

 

Actually, I'd settle gladly for Sinovac.

3 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Dr Yong said he expects infections to increase.

 

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

he Government has decided that the rise in cases is an acceptable risk and is no reason to not delay in opening up

 

The dilemma the government is in resumes in the choice between an ongoing economy , or the general health situation of the main population ...

Thailand is simply too depending on foreign money to make it alone ... ( should have better listened to King Bhumibol . )

Not to have money is an existential threat to many Thai's except the richer ' Elite ' of course , and it is partly them who make the decision of what's going on ...

The money will probably win , the hospitals will fill up , not enough vaccine available , letting tourists in already ... imagine a serous outbreak of the Delta ( indian ) variant just as in India ... bye bye to all tourism for a long time ...

There , always are just a few possibilities .

One is that they get enough of a really reliable vaccine and speed up the vaccination process  to reach at least an ' immunity ' , or they simply will not be able to do that in time .

It quite looks as this will happen .

That means that it will become much more serious soon ...

13 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Delta variant taking over with no vaccines that seems to be the ones that can have an affect.

This is going to get ugly very quickly.

I think it got ugly already.I think it's going to get very ugly very quickly and it may have already done that as well and we have no way of knowing.

1 hour ago, 2 is 1 said:

Chumpair Khon Kaen kids in quarantine! Not Nice to separate kids from parents!

Heartbreaking.

 

if my kid caught Covid there is no way I would be separated from her. I would take precautions for myself, but no way would she be carted off.

 

kids like this separated and isolated, but migrant workers turned away from a treatment centre. Meantime Phuket garners a bunch of virus resources so a small corner of the country can make money. And TAT spokesman starts spouting about how many million tourists will arrive in 3 months time when the whole country opens up.

 

Where’s the logic in it all? This country has gone just barking mad.

Looks like no televised COVID news briefing today for the second day in a row...

 

Perhaps because...

 

--Hospitalizations reached a new pandemic record high of 59,938.

 

--COVID patients hospitalized in critical condition reached a new pandemic high of 2,147.

 

--The share of critical condition COVID patients requiring respirators to breath reached a new pandemic high of 616.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/357489629202701

 

 

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

No information will not be discredited unless it is found to be pseudoscience or a conspiracy link.

except for anything from China press or medical/research officials.

COVID deaths update for the day:

 

30 deaths in Bangkok, 3 in Samut Prakan, two each in Nakhon Pathom and Yala, and one each in 7 other provinces.

 

24 males, 20 females

median age 66.5, age range 34 to 91

43 Thai nationals and 1 Myanmar national

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/357489629202701

 

Top provinces for COVID new cases reported Sunday:

 

Bangkok's new cases count fell substantially to 1,498, down from near and above 2,000 in prior days. But that's not entirely unexpected, as today's reported results came from yesterday/Saturday, and weekends often have lower reported case counts.

 

Translations below courtesy of Richard Barrow:

 

"Out of 5,871 local cases (outside of prison):

Bangkok - 1,498

Pathum Thani - 458

Samut Prakan - 412

Samut Sakhon - 395

Chonburi - 275

Nonthaburi - 267

Songkhla - 232

Nakhon Pathom - 230

Pattani - 213

Yala - 205"

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1411561831156523018

 

 

Thailand-wide and Bangkok province daily new case totals by day for the past week up thru today:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/357489629202701

 

Heat map for new COVID cases reported Sunday by province:

 

11 provinces led by Bangkok with more than 100 new cases (shown in red on the map), and another 7 provinces with between 51 and 100 new cases (shown in orange on the map). Only 4 provinces with no COVID cases at all (shown in white) -- Angthong, Lamphun, Chumphon, and Mae Hong Son (the latter is the only carryover from yesterday's no cases list).

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/357489629202701

 

As usual, vaccinations fell off sharply on the weekend, with Saturday's total reported today of less than 100,000, compared to some 350,000 doses given on Friday. Expect tomorrow's vaccination data showing Sunday's numbers to be equally low, as is their norm.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/357489629202701

 

A breakdown of first and second doses given, and percentage rates among the population, by selected provinces. Phuket at 57% fully vaccinated, based on the provinces official population count, though 71% have received ONE dose.

 

 

This below is a breakdown of the numbers of vaccine doses given through July 2 among the three different vaccine brands being used by the government thus far, with Sinovac accounting for almost two-thirds of all doses given thus far.

 

 

28 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Top provinces for COVID new cases reported Sunday:

 

Bangkok's new cases count fell substantially to 1,498, down from near and above 2,000 in prior days. But that's not entirely unexpected, as today's reported results came from yesterday/Saturday, and weekends often have lower reported case counts.

 

 

Thailand-wide and Bangkok province daily new case totals by day for the past week up thru today:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/357489629202701

 

Add in the fact that they have probably more or less stopped any testing at hospitals unless you are definitely sick and then not proactively testing outside because of a true lack of beds.