Thailand reports 5,916 new COVID-19 cases, 44 more deaths

[dinsdale]

2 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

Wow! Samut Sakhon which was floating between 250ish and just under 300 per day has gone to just under 395. Please someone tell me this is not out of control.

Today 395. Was going to say just under 400. Forgot to edit. 

[dinsdale]

2 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

Woman sick with COVID who camped outside a cop shop to protest the fact that she couldn't get a hosptial bed.  Eventually someone found her one and carted her off.  I think we will see a lot more of this sort of thing. Cops and security guards are reluctant to manhandle infected people.

This stuff needs to go international so Mr. Empty Head and Full Pockets is shown for what he is. 

Edited July 4, 2021 by dinsdale

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Just now, dinsdale said:

This stuff needs to go international so Mr. Empty Head is shown for what he is. 

 

That was from a day or two ago... Eventually, once news of her plight circulated online, one of the NGOs or ambulance services came to pick her up and transport her somewhere....

 

[Dogmatix]

2 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

With the amount of Vaccines that have to be Exported to other Asian Nations, Thailand will be very lucky to receive between 5  and 6 Million Doses of AZ a Month.

And there really is little SB can do about this, as AZ are contracted to supply the Vaccines, not SB, who are purely the Partnership for Manufacture.

It will be interesting to see how much pressure is applied to AZ by the Thai Government, and what the reaction will be from AZ

 

 

I think the government will end up banning exports just as India did.  So much for being a "hub" of vaccine production. Everyone has made bad decisions over this, the Thai govt, <deleted> and AZ which has made bad decisions all over the world, while Oxford made a bad decision to pick AZ as its partner, seeing as it had virtually nil experience in vaccine production and has no production capacity of its own. It was obvious AZ would make loads of basic mistakes that would have been avoided by an experience world class vaccine producer.  Its decision in Thailand is just a small part of its global bungling. 

Edited July 4, 2021 by blackcab
Two words removed

[anchadian]

The Department of Corrections are reporting 39 new cases today bringing their total to 36,734 infections and 44 deaths since 1st April. Out of these, 1,690 inmates are still in care #Thailand

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1411603701333073921

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

20 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Is “community isolation facilities” referring to home quarantine in 23 different districts?

 Don't think so.. These community isolation centers being set up in BKK sound more like waystations for people who have tested positive but not yet been assigned to any hospital bed, to get them out of their homes.

 

 

Via Google Translate:

 

"BMA plans to set up a "waiting center waiting for the referral of Covid patients to be hospitalized" or Community Isolation for all 6 district groups and will set up as many as possible in all districts throughout the Bangkok area due to the outbreaks of the day

 

The number of patients is increasing rapidly. cause there are still patients left Therefore, “housing centers” are very necessary in this epidemic situation.

 

To be a place to provide primary care for green covid patients in the community or in the area near their home to detain the patient from the family. Waiting to be referred for treatment in the field hospital or the main hospital to reduce family infections that will cause the epidemic to continue in the community or at work."

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anchadian]

Phuket is on the alert after a passenger, who arrived on the island aboard a Thai Smile flight from Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok on July 1st, was found to be infected with COVID-19.

 

All the passengers on board flight WE201, which left Suvarnabhumi international airport at 7.04am on July 1st, have been told to report to their nearest hospital or health office for COVID-19 testing.

 

The provincial administration also issued a statement on Saturday, via its Facebook page, urging those who visited the Central Floresta Phuket and Central Phuket Starbucks branches between June 25th and 29th to report for COVID-19 screening.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/phuket-on-alert-after-airline-passenger-from-bangkok-found-infected-with-covid-19/

 

 

 

 

Edited July 4, 2021 by anchadian

[ThailandRyan]

38 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

 

 

If we were doing techical analysis of a share price, we might say it has encountered resistance at the 6,000 level and is at crossroads where it could either fail to break resistance and this will be the top, or it is just consolidating for a few days to build up strength to punch ujp through resistance straight up to 10,000.  Somehow I suspect it will be the latter but hope it will be the former.

Has it formed the head and shoulders yet for a bull move upwards.

[anchadian]

Thailand’s Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA) has assured that there will be enough Sinopharm vaccine to go around, if no one exceeds their allocation or jumps the queue.

 

CRA secretary-general Dr. Nithi Mahanonda said millions of doses of Sinopharm vaccine have been ordered for local distribution. However, they cannot be delivered to Thailand all at once because the production process, quality control and inspection take some time to complete.

 

He urged everyone to be patient, adding that many in vulnerable groups, including monks, the elderly and those living in crowded communities, need to be taken care of first.

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10158121207537050

[ThailandRyan]

17 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Phuket is on the alert after a passenger, who arrived on the island aboard a Thai Smile flight from Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok on July 1st, was found to be infected with COVID-19.

 

All the passengers on board flight WE201, which left Suvarnabhumi international airport at 7.04am on July 1st, have been told to report to their nearest hospital or health office for COVID-19 testing.

 

The provincial administration also issued a statement on Saturday, via its Facebook page, urging those who visited the Central Floresta Phuket and Central Phuket Starbucks branches between June 25th and 29th to report for COVID-19 screening.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/phuket-on-alert-after-airline-passenger-from-bangkok-found-infected-with-covid-19/

 

 

 

 

Will this be the flame that lights the fuse and blows the powder keg or will it be defused by the government and deemed inconsequential.

[jerrymahoney]

16 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Will this be the flame that lights the fuse and blows the powder keg or will it be defused by the government and deemed inconsequential.

So you think those are the only two possible outcomes?

Edited July 4, 2021 by jerrymahoney

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

That was from a day or two ago... Eventually, once news of her plight circulated online, one of the NGOs or ambulance services came to pick her up and transport her somewhere....

 

Sentiment remains. Third world/Developing Economy approach to the pandemic. 

[ThailandRyan]

40 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

So you think those are the only two possible outcomes?

Do you think that it will be a big nothing and not important or what give us your opinion, I gave mine as you can see.  One end of the spectrum to the other. Wide in between.

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

Phuket is on the alert after a passenger, who arrived on the island aboard a Thai Smile flight from Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok on July 1st, was found to be infected with COVID-19.

 

All the passengers on board flight WE201, which left Suvarnabhumi international airport at 7.04am on July 1st, have been told to report to their nearest hospital or health office for COVID-19 testing.

 

The provincial administration also issued a statement on Saturday, via its Facebook page, urging those who visited the Central Floresta Phuket and Central Phuket Starbucks branches between June 25th and 29th to report for COVID-19 screening.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/phuket-on-alert-after-airline-passenger-from-bangkok-found-infected-with-covid-19/

 

 

 

 

Interesting. I wonder if the empty heads had both domestic and international passengers at the terminal at the same time.

[2 is 1]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

Phuket is on the alert after a passenger, who arrived on the island aboard a Thai Smile flight from Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok on July 1st, was found to be infected with COVID-19.

 

All the passengers on board flight WE201, which left Suvarnabhumi international airport at 7.04am on July 1st, have been told to report to their nearest hospital or health office for COVID-19 testing.

 

The provincial administration also issued a statement on Saturday, via its Facebook page, urging those who visited the Central Floresta Phuket and Central Phuket Starbucks branches between June 25th and 29th to report for COVID-19 screening.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/phuket-on-alert-after-airline-passenger-from-bangkok-found-infected-with-covid-19/

 

 

 

 

They get nice advertizement if they put all passangers in quarantine from that flight! What they should do but then what about all other flights whitch coming to Phuket and all "tourist" in those! If every flight have one or more infected one then all can forget playing in "sandbox" . Straight to quarantine you go!

Edited July 4, 2021 by 2 is 1

[jerrymahoney]

24 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Do you think that it will be a big nothing and not important or what give us your opinion, I gave mine as you can see.  One end of the spectrum to the other. Wide in between.

It will depend on  if any others on the flight become positive and an analysis of how the infected person got on the flight if these provisions have or have not been followed:

 

Public Announcement

CAAT News 22/2021 : Airline passengers to Phuket without COVID-19 document to be rejected for boarding

  31 May 2021

 

 Phuket governor with the approval of the Communicable Diseases Committee of Phuket has issued a new announcement since May 28th, 2021. The new announcement emphasizes the screening measures for domestic passengers entering Phuket from June 1st. The new measures will complement the existing processes and ensure more streamlined entry into Phuket. The airline passenger must proceed as follows:

         

 1. Must be vaccinated with 2 or full doses of COVID-19 vaccine or a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine, recovered from COVID-19 infection not more than 90 days, tested negative for COVID-19 by RT-PCR or Antigen Rapid Test not more than 7 days since the test date.  Those who fail to present the evidence will be rejected for boarding by the airlines. However, children up to 5 years of age are exempted.

https://www.caat.or.th/en/archives/58167

 

 

[blackcab]

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[Rhacsyn]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Will this be the flame that lights the fuse and blows the powder keg or will it be defused by the government and deemed inconsequential.

No idea but I have it from a number of sources they they have been frighteningly lax at the sarasin bridge entry to Phuket also.. Similar stories from evening venues.....

[wensiensheng]

3 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

In terms of overall case numbers that's true. If you use other metrics though, we're doing even worse. 

 

On the ranking of daily new cases, Thailand is actually up to 12th now.

 

Worldometers - Coronavirus statistics

 

 

And if you take into account the population in some of those countries that are above Thailand (USA, Indonesia, India, Brazil) then it makes Thailand look worse. Malaysia worse still of course. UK looks terrible, but their case count isn’t resulting in many hospitalizations or deaths.

[wensiensheng]

7 minutes ago, Rhacsyn said:

No idea but I have it from a number of sources they they have been frighteningly lax at the sarasin bridge entry to Phuket also.. Similar stories from evening venues.....

The bar at the end of my Soi is open. They bought a restaurant license and if anyone actually wants food, they order from the proper restaurant over the road.

 

it’s all down to government messaging. Why worry when the government is opening things open and the country will be open in 117 days. Party, party, party.

[wensiensheng]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

Phuket is on the alert after a passenger, who arrived on the island aboard a Thai Smile flight from Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok on July 1st, was found to be infected with COVID-19.

 

All the passengers on board flight WE201, which left Suvarnabhumi international airport at 7.04am on July 1st, have been told to report to their nearest hospital or health office for COVID-19 testing.

 

The provincial administration also issued a statement on Saturday, via its Facebook page, urging those who visited the Central Floresta Phuket and Central Phuket Starbucks branches between June 25th and 29th to report for COVID-19 screening.

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/phuket-on-alert-after-airline-passenger-from-bangkok-found-infected-with-covid-19/

 

 

 

 

I don’t get it. How can that be? I mean they doused the whole plane in water. How can there be a Covid positive case?

[DrJack54]

4 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Why worry when the government is opening things open and the country will be open in 117 days. Party, party,

What's happening with those islands that were going to open mid July? Samui etc

[wensiensheng]

18 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

It will depend on  if any others on the flight become positive and an analysis of how the infected person got on the flight if these provisions have or have not been followed:

 

Public Announcement

CAAT News 22/2021 : Airline passengers to Phuket without COVID-19 document to be rejected for boarding

  31 May 2021

 

 Phuket governor with the approval of the Communicable Diseases Committee of Phuket has issued a new announcement since May 28th, 2021. The new announcement emphasizes the screening measures for domestic passengers entering Phuket from June 1st. The new measures will complement the existing processes and ensure more streamlined entry into Phuket. The airline passenger must proceed as follows:

         

 1. Must be vaccinated with 2 or full doses of COVID-19 vaccine or a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine, recovered from COVID-19 infection not more than 90 days, tested negative for COVID-19 by RT-PCR or Antigen Rapid Test not more than 7 days since the test date.  Those who fail to present the evidence will be rejected for boarding by the airlines. However, children up to 5 years of age are exempted.

https://www.caat.or.th/en/archives/58167

 

 

Those procedures could have been followed, but the passenger be positive. If he had 2 doses of sinovax, it’s not unknown to catch Covid, particularly delta, and a single dose of AZ doesn’t give the fullest possible protection. The order also doesn’t state how many days previously the vaccine should have been given. Little protection is afforded for 14 days after a first AZ jab, or so I have read.

 

And I note that the order was issued a month ago. The situation in Bangkok has changed quite a bit in that time. Could consider updating it I would have thought. Although if that resulted in more stringent restrictions, it would fly in the face of TAT’s goal of attracting 500k visitors by the end of the year.
 

But then, trying to prevent Covid and opening the country to domestic movement creates something of a dilemma.

[wensiensheng]

6 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What's happening with those islands that were going to open mid July? Samui etc

On course and full steam ahead I believe. Samui is doing a Phuket in terms of vaccinations. Last I saw I think they were up to about 40% fully vaccinated? Think so anyway.

[wensiensheng]

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 Don't think so.. These community isolation centers being set up in BKK sound more like waystations for people who have tested positive but not yet been assigned to any hospital bed, to get them out of their homes.

 

 

Via Google Translate:

 

"BMA plans to set up a "waiting center waiting for the referral of Covid patients to be hospitalized" or Community Isolation for all 6 district groups and will set up as many as possible in all districts throughout the Bangkok area due to the outbreaks of the day

 

The number of patients is increasing rapidly. cause there are still patients left Therefore, “housing centers” are very necessary in this epidemic situation.

 

To be a place to provide primary care for green covid patients in the community or in the area near their home to detain the patient from the family. Waiting to be referred for treatment in the field hospital or the main hospital to reduce family infections that will cause the epidemic to continue in the community or at work."

 

Hmm, so a bed in a dorm. Medical care every 3 days or so.

 

doesn’t get a lot more basic really, but maybe better than sleeping on the pavement outside a hospital.

[jerrymahoney]

... and maybe the positive COVID passenger presented some forged documents. Maybe the CAAT folks and the Phuket government don't know their procedures are outdated. Maybe they've never heard of delta.

Edited July 4, 2021 by jerrymahoney

[wensiensheng]

4 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

The number of people in ICU and on VENTILATORS:

26 June: 1,662/470

27 June: 1,725/489

28 June: 1,806/510

29 June: 1,846/527

30 June: 1,911/556

1 July: 1,971/566

2 July: 2,002/579

3 July: 2,045/589

4 July: 2,147/616 <— Today

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1411570537151746051

 

Both up 30% in 9 days. Easy to see why some hospitals are overwhelmed 

[wensiensheng]

11 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

... and maybe the positive COVID passenger presented some forged documents. Maybe the CAAT folks and the Phuket government don't know their procedures are outdated. Maybe they've never heard of delta.

Oh I see, you were just baiting. I thought you wanted a conversation. Nvm then.

[itsari]

43 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

And if you take into account the population in some of those countries that are above Thailand (USA, Indonesia, India, Brazil) then it makes Thailand look worse. Malaysia worse still of course. UK looks terrible, but their case count isn’t resulting in many hospitalizations or deaths.

Uk reported 18 deaths from covid , 25000 new covid infections . Look at Thailand with 44 deaths and 6000 new cases . Only one conclusion i can make is there is a lack of testing in Thailand .

[jerrymahoney]

Not enough information  at the present. However if the circumstance was that this person had received full vaccination and then became known positive 3 days after the flight I would find the timing somewhat squirrelly.

Edited July 4, 2021 by jerrymahoney