Thailand reports 6,519 new COVID-19 cases, 54 more deaths

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Thailand on Wednesday (July 7) reported 6,519 new COVID-19 cases and 54 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

● 6,464 new infections

● 55 prison / prison infections

Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 301,172 with 2,387 deaths.

(Total infections since April 1: 272,309)

The news comes as Thailand is now entering the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Delta coronavirus variant expected to become the dominant strain in Thailand and the rest of the world in 1-2 months, said  Clinical Professor Emeritus Dr. Udom Kachintorn who is an advisor to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The 6,519 new COVID cases reported Wednesday, including the 6,464 general population cases, both set new pandemic record single-day highs for Thailand.

 

Thailand has now had four 6,000+ new COVID case days out of the past six days, and hit a total COVID case count since the beginning of more than 300,000. The country's prior record single-day high was 6,230 cases just four days ago on July 3.

 

At current 6,000+ levels, Thailand's current number of new officially reported COVID cases each day has doubled in just the past three weeks from the 3,000+ new case counts of mid-June.

 

The 54 deaths reported Wednesday is the country's third highest total ever, The past high in single day deaths was 61 on July 2, and two days earlier this month, including yesterday, with 57 deaths.

 

Because the 6,519 new COVID cases reported Wednesday once again substantially exceeded the 4,148 reported recoveries, the total hospitalized toll will rise yet again when updated later today.

 

Update:

 

For the second day in a row, Thailand once again Wednesday set new daily records for COVID patients in critical condition, the share of those requiring ventilators to breathe, and total COVID hospitalizations.

 

67,614 COVID patients hospitalized vs 65,297 yesterday.

 

2,496 COVID patients hospitalized in critical condition vs 2,350 yesterday.

 

Of those, 676 requiring ventilators to breathe vs 643 yesterday.

[Bkk Brian]

New high again for cases found in the community, 6,464. Deaths naturally creeping up daily and thats just the official ones that are tested for covid. 

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 5th July only) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases.

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

[anchadian]

 

#COVID19 UPDATE on WEDNESDAY: 6,519 cases & 54 deaths (55 cases from prisons). Full details at 12:30pm #Thailand

 

2 July: 6,087 - 61 dead

3 July: 6,230 - 41 dead

4 July: 5,916 - 44 dead

5 July: 6,166 - 50 dead

6 July: 5,420 - 57 dead

7 July: 6,519 - 54 dead <— TODAY

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1412575664901820423

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by anchadian

[dinsdale]

New daily record of community infections. Up it goes. As for fourth wave well this is just deflection. The so-called third wave started mid-April and we all know why and has continued on an upward trajectory. It's still the third wave. This would have to be brought completely under control before another wave can be called a fourth wave.

Edited July 7, 2021 by dinsdale

[DrJack54]

Think we can just photocopy these numbers and post it every day..

 

[Bkk Brian]

Report from a forensic doctor who carries out autopsies reveals the real covid death numbers are much higher.

 

On July 6, Dr. Smith Srison, Forensic Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University posted a message on Facebook about the situation of the Covid- 19 epidemic in Thailand, that may be more severe than the numbers released by the government. From the autopsy of the deceased in just one day, four people were found to be infected with covid. 

 

This happens each day, they come mainly from the slum communities and die at home.

 

The conclusion is to say the situation is very serious. The patients and deaths seen here are definitely not real numbers. There are much more than that There are a lot of people who don't swab to check (now in Rama, if they come to swab, I see queues to sit and wait since 10 PM to check in the morning). As for the dead, there are more people. Because there are many cases that do not have a swab, some forensic doctors can't swab all of them.

 

https://twitter.com/Thai_Talk/status/1412573698733740035

 

 

https://www.matichon.co.th/local/quality-life/news_2815538

 

 

[FarFlungFalang]

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

The news comes as Thailand is now entering the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the Delta coronavirus variant expected to become the dominant strain in Thailand and the rest of the world in 1-2 months, said  Clinical Professor Emeritus Dr. Udom Kachintorn who is an advisor to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

The news comes as Thailand continues riding the third wave of community transmissions which continues unabated since the HiSo Thongor outbreak introduced the Delta strain into the community.

[Danderman123]

Sorry to be an analyst nerd, but to understand the progress of the epidemic, it’s important to look at today’s numbers closely.

 

Cases are much higher today. But is it because there were more hospital admissions or because of higher testing numbers? If it’s the latter, then today’s numbers are probably an artifact of more lab tests being run last night to catch up a backlog from yesterday’s lower numbers.

 

If there were more hospital admissions, it’s probably due to there being a high number of discharges (4000+) yesterday, freeing up more beds for new admissions.

 

Okay, you can go back to bashing the government now.

[ThailandRyan]

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

This happens each day, they come mainly from the slum communities and die at home

Something we have been discussing but have been told if it was happening it would be all over social media. Where are those members now who told us we were doomsayers and scare mongers.

 

Looks like 6k is the new floor and so are 50+ deaths.

[ThailandRyan]

2 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Sorry to be an analyst nerd, but to understand the progress of the epidemic, it’s important to look at today’s numbers closely.

 

Cases are much higher today. But is it because there were more hospital admissions or because of higher testing numbers? If it’s the latter, then today’s numbers are probably an artifact of more lab tests being run last night to catch up a backlog from yesterday’s lower numbers.

 

If there were more hospital admissions, it’s probably due to there being a high number of discharges (4000+) yesterday, freeing up more beds for new admissions.

 

Okay, you can go back to bashing the government now.

Possibly also because extra beds are added, or folks isolating at home until a bed is found.

[anchadian]

Chonburi Public Health Office has just announced they have 262 new cases and three more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (58), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (90), and Si Racha (38). The total cases so far is now 10,285 with 3,728 remaining in care #Thailand

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1412581019471863808

 

[robblok]

8 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Think we can just photocopy these numbers and post it every day..

 

That is what the government would wish... because then they stay the same. There is an ever increasing line. So they would be happy with this number staying this way.

[smedly]

they need to stop with this targetted testing and start ramping up mass community random testing, that is the only way to get to grips with this now raging virus spread, trying to hide it and ignore it will only end one way - a total disaster, it might even be too late

 

and still they refuse to stop interprovincial travel knowing fool well it will spread the pandemic far and wide - I can only conclude that is their intention - you would need to be a total idiot not to see this

[robblok]

6 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Sorry to be an analyst nerd, but to understand the progress of the epidemic, it’s important to look at today’s numbers closely.

 

Cases are much higher today. But is it because there were more hospital admissions or because of higher testing numbers? If it’s the latter, then today’s numbers are probably an artifact of more lab tests being run last night to catch up a backlog from yesterday’s lower numbers.

 

If there were more hospital admissions, it’s probably due to there being a high number of discharges (4000+) yesterday, freeing up more beds for new admissions.

 

Okay, you can go back to bashing the government now.

You keep bringing up artefacts while the times you did that in the past you had to admit you were wrong. Why do you keep downplaying things instead of waiting for tomorrow so you can see its an artefact. 

 

I doubt the testing numbers are higher of the community testing walk in might be higher. But that really means more cases. 

[FarFlungFalang]

4 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Think we can just photocopy these numbers and post it every day..

 

How do you "photocopy"these numbers?By putting your laptop onto a photocopying machine then hit print, then put the printed copy onto the scanner then convert the scanned data to a pdf and download on to a stick then download onto your laptop and post it?Would it not be quicker to just "cut and paste" it?

[robblok]

10 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Report from a forensic doctor who carries out autopsies reveals the real covid death numbers are much higher.

 

On July 6, Dr. Smith Srison, Forensic Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University posted a message on Facebook about the situation of the Covid- 19 epidemic in Thailand, that may be more severe than the numbers released by the government. From the autopsy of the deceased in just one day, four people were found to be infected with covid. 

 

This happens each day, they come mainly from the slum communities and die at home.

 

The conclusion is to say the situation is very serious. The patients and deaths seen here are definitely not real numbers. There are much more than that There are a lot of people who don't swab to check (now in Rama, if they come to swab, I see queues to sit and wait since 10 PM to check in the morning). As for the dead, there are more people. Because there are many cases that do not have a swab, some forensic doctors can't swab all of them.

 

https://twitter.com/Thai_Talk/status/1412573698733740035

 

 

https://www.matichon.co.th/local/quality-life/news_2815538

 

 

Shttt... dont tell the deniers.. they think the numbers are low and good reported so the country can open up so they can have FUN again.

 

Most people suspected this but now there is proof.

[DrJack54]

8 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Okay, you can go back to bashing the government now.

How your vaccine shots coming along? 

Perhaps you obtained them outside of Thailand 

[Danderman123]

1 minute ago, robblok said:

You keep bringing up artefacts while the times you did that in the past you had to admit you were wrong. Why do you keep downplaying things instead of waiting for tomorrow so you can see its an artefact. 

 

I doubt the testing numbers are higher of the community testing walk in might be higher. But that really means more cases. 

I didn’t admit I was wrong. 
 

There are some days where there are spikes because the labs process a backlog of cases. You can tell because a higher percentage of new cases are from lab tests and not hospital admissions.

 

More to the point, it is much more useful to try to understand the progress of the epidemic than to try to make debating points on an Internet forum. At this point, simply repeating that the government is not handling this well, and that the epidemic is going to get worse is not useful. What is useful is monitoring the progress to see if it is time to stock up on supplies for a couple of weeks, or leave the country, or head for the hills.

[FarFlungFalang]

15 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Report from a forensic doctor who carries out autopsies reveals the real covid death numbers are much higher.

 

On July 6, Dr. Smith Srison, Forensic Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University posted a message on Facebook about the situation of the Covid- 19 epidemic in Thailand, that may be more severe than the numbers released by the government. From the autopsy of the deceased in just one day, four people were found to be infected with covid. 

 

This happens each day, they come mainly from the slum communities and die at home.

 

The conclusion is to say the situation is very serious. The patients and deaths seen here are definitely not real numbers. There are much more than that There are a lot of people who don't swab to check (now in Rama, if they come to swab, I see queues to sit and wait since 10 PM to check in the morning). As for the dead, there are more people. Because there are many cases that do not have a swab, some forensic doctors can't swab all of them.

 

https://twitter.com/Thai_Talk/status/1412573698733740035

 

 

https://www.matichon.co.th/local/quality-life/news_2815538

 

 

Nah if there were more deaths than the Grubbyment were telling us about it would be all over social media!Oh wait a sec!

[Danderman123]

4 minutes ago, robblok said:

Shttt... dont tell the deniers.. they think the numbers are low and good reported so the country can open up so they can have FUN again.

 

Most people suspected this but now there is proof.

An anecdote is useful, but not proof of anything other than maybe a handful of cases were undercounted.

 

Before you erupt, I am not saying there probably isn’t an undercount, I am just explaining that anecdotes aren’t evidence.

[smedly]

8 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Bang Lamung/Pattaya (90)

these daily numbers in pattaya are alarming - what is it now - about 500 per week, that is a lot considering only targetted testing

[FarFlungFalang]

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

There are some days where there are spikes because the labs process a backlog of cases. You can tell because a higher percentage of new cases are from lab tests and not hospital admissions.

Any links to this info or is it only you that's allowed to see the testing process and any of these backlogs?

[DrJack54]

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

What is useful is monitoring the progress to see if it is time to stock up on supplies for a couple of weeks,

What is useful is to stop inter provience travel. Especially out of Bangkok.

Also what would be very handy is obtain some bloody vaccine and ramp up inoculation.

 

[Danderman123]

Just now, smedly said:

these daily numbers in pattaya are alarming - what is it now - about 500 per week, that is a lot considering only targetted testing

I am concerned that the system in Chonburi is unable to report more than 400 cases, due to limits on hospital beds and testing. I certainly don’t want to be surprised by an unreported tidal wave of infections.

[Danderman123]

1 minute ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Any links to this info or is it only you that's allowed to see the testing process and any of these backlogs?

You can see in the daily reports the number of hospital admissions and positive lab tests. 

[cyril sneer]

What are the odds of tomorrow's figure being between 5500-7000

 

Wish I could bet on this sort of thing

[Danderman123]

2 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What is useful is to stop inter provience travel. Especially out of Bangkok.

Also what would be very handy is obtain some bloody vaccine and ramp up inoculation.

 

You miss my point.

 

Any reasonable person would assume that vaccination numbers in the near term are going to be insufficient. And, in the absence of a ban on travel out of Bangkok, the virus will continue to spread.

 

The question now is how bad will it get, and when to take measures to protect against the worst case?

Edited July 7, 2021 by Danderman123

[Bkk Brian]

2 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

An anecdote is useful, but not proof of anything other than maybe a handful of cases were undercounted.

 

Before you erupt, I am not saying there probably isn’t an undercount, I am just explaining that anecdotes aren’t evidence.

This report is from a forensic doctor at Ramathibodi Hospital Mahidol University and he has the evidence of the positive swabs that he has taken daily, its not just a handful of cases either.

[FarFlungFalang]

1 minute ago, Danderman123 said:

You can see in the daily reports the number of hospital admissions and positive lab tests. 

What you see in the daily reports is what the Grubbyment wants you to see and nothing else and where does it mention these backlogs you keep talking about?