Thailand Has World’s 8th Highest Number of Serious or Critical COVID-19 Cases

[webfact]

 

By Woraprat Lerpaisal

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has reported that Thailand has the 8th highest number of serious or critical COVID-19 cases in the world, as defined by worldometers.info

 

CCSA spokesman Dr Thaveesilp Visanuyothin announced a jump in the number of patients with severe symptoms to 2,738, with 717 on ventilators. Thailand also logged 9,326 new cases and recorded 91 fatalities on 10 July.

 

Bangkok has the most, with 3,191, followed by 672 in Pathum Thani, 603 in Samut Prakan, 551 in Samut Sakhon, 359 in Chon Buri, 334 in Nonthaburi, 225 in Songkhla, 207 in Lop Buri, 175 in Saraburi and 173 in Pattani. Bangkok also led with the most deaths (51), followed by Samut Prakan (9), Nonthaburi (8), Pathum Thani (5) and Nakhon Pathom (4).

 

The CCSA also reported new clusters in three provinces, namely at a tap water plant in Ayutthaya’s Bang Pa-in district, Sompob market in Nakhon Pathom’s Sam Phran district, a plastics plant in Nakhon Pathom’s Nakhon Chaisri district and at an electronics company in Ratchaburi’s Ban Pong district.

 

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[sezze]

Not that the situation in Thailand is looking good , but i am afraid this info on worldometers is not 100% correct . What 1 country counts critical is for another country only a hospital case . Since they also put "positive" cases in a hospital in Thailand ( still correct ?) , i am thinking like , oh he/she gets sick ( ok really sick )"that's a critical case" . Even the death numbers are far from correct everywhere , let alone counting the criticals .

Countries who did have massive waves before , got now a lot more knowledge on who is critical , just need extra care , just a hospital bed , or ok .

[sezze]

If you do not believe , rank the map to "active cases" and you see there Thailand is on the 19th spot , and you see massive , really massive differences between the active cases and the critical cases , some countries not even give any statement on critical cases ( like Indonesia ) . I can imagine heavy vaccinated countries having large amount of actives/criticals , but not for many others on the list .

I do check worldometers regularly , but mainly only for infection/deaths , and more important , trends on specific countries . Might not be the best even for it , but it is very easy to use .

[jacko45k]

47 minutes ago, sezze said:

Since they also put "positive" cases in a hospital in Thailand ( still correct ?) ,

Not now, asymptomatic are told to isolate at home unless they have various aliments.

[Excel]

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Not now, asymptomatic are told to isolate at home unless they have various aliments.

In Bangkok only I understood.

[ThailandRyan]

Yesterday 771 on ventilators that's critical and not very good. How many other countries have their ICU's filled like Thailand does.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, Excel said:

In Bangkok only I understood.

Yes, I should have added that....Bangkok where hospital facilities are running short.

[Excel]

Just now, jacko45k said:

Yes, I should have added that....Bangkok where hospital facilities are running short.

Mind you with the spread to other provinces thanks to the Bangkokians then I suspect we shall eventually see similar scenarios in many other provinces unfortunately

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

stats from uncivilized countries are worthless

2738 hospitalizations ( serious symptoms ) from pop. 70 million.... 

good to have those figures but otherwise so what .....hardly apocalyptic ......

[ThailandRyan]

4 minutes ago, Excel said:

Mind you with the spread to other provinces thanks to the Bangkokians then I suspect we shall eventually see similar scenarios in many other provinces unfortunately

Filled ICU wards coming to a town near you soon in Thailand thanks to the great escape allowed by this inept government where unnecessary travel is just discouraged like traveling to Phuket is still allowed.  Money over health it would appear 

[Excel]

1 minute ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

stats from uncivilized countries are worthless

2738 hospitalizations ( serious symptoms ) from pop. 70 million.... 

good to have those figures but otherwise so what .....hardly apocalyptic ......

I guess that would depend upon your definition of an "uncivilised" country is !  Please define so that we may make our own informed judgement of your post

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

stats from uncivilized countries are worthless

2738 hospitalizations ( serious symptoms ) from pop. 70 million.... 

good to have those figures but otherwise so what .....hardly apocalyptic ......

[ThailandRyan]

Just now, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

stats from uncivilized countries are worthless

2738 hospitalizations ( serious symptoms ) from pop. 70 million.... 

good to have those figures but otherwise so what .....hardly apocalyptic ......

Try again, your showing your inability to comprehend full ICUs and many on respirators.  Thus those who need treatment are not getting it immediately and people are starting to die at home. Your view is not mine so I will agree to disagree, so troll away 

[sezze]

Like i said , Thailand stats aren't good , no doubt about it . The amount of people on ventilators is indeed not low . Having said that , they are now at how many deaths per day +/-90 . Thinking about the 1st waves we had in Europe we are talking loads more , and for a country like Thailand ( 70 mill population) , i am not looking up until we see at least 500 death per day . This is not a competition , and it would be very bad , but that are the numbers in which every single person except a blind  can see how bad it really really is . I remember in my village the undertaker / death announcement which normally is like 3-4 per week went up to 20-30 . Newspapers who do give some death announcements , before is like half a page suddenly went up to 4-5 pages full .

And then you see Thailand , where nothing happened so far . They did call this a 3th or 4th wave while they had nearly no infection so far . You will certainly know when it gets really bad .

[herfiehandbag]

20 minutes ago, Excel said:

I guess that would depend upon your definition of an "uncivilised" country is !  Please define so that we may make our own informed judgement of your post

Personally I would define "uncivilised" as barbaric, savage, violent and without an effective moral code. Thailand by that ( my preferred  definition) is most definitely not uncivilised.

 

However, if one concentrates on the root word "civil" in the sense of good governance, honest and fair conduct by those in leading positions, concern for the less fortunate In society, universal and equitable application of the law, fiscal probity and so on, (including unadjusted and transparent reporting of statistics) then...

Edited July 11, 2021 by herfiehandbag

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

TRyan, you are adding conjecture not in the article. informed and perhaps true but otherwise appears alarmist & speculative ......ps:  I do not troll so you can relax now......

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

herfie; yes, on the right track.....

anywhere really without effective rule of fair laws / basic freedoms/ proper democracy

[jerrymahoney]

2 hours ago, Excel said:

Mind you with the spread to other provinces thanks to the Bangkokians then I suspect we shall eventually see similar scenarios in many other provinces unfortunately

At least in Khon Kaen, they do not see the situation as an invasion of lepers:

 

Khon Kaen New High, the main hospital is full!

Khon Kaen New High has 74 new cases of coronavirus, most of them returning from high-risk areas, the Ministry of Public Health is aiming to set up a covid hospital to cope with the ongoing epidemic situation.

 

Khon Kaen New High has 74 new cases of coronavirus, most of them returning from high-risk areas, the Ministry of Public Health is aiming to set up a covid hospital to cope with the ongoing epidemic situation.

  Dr. Somchaichot Piyawatwela, a public health doctor in Khon Kaen province, said most of the new confirmed cases had come back from clusters in the red provinces and had a history of relationships with previously detected cases. All of them cooperate in revealing the timeline and undergo a rigorous investigation of the disease from the authorities. And everyone has been referred for treatment in the public health system already. While the management of the patient preparation confirmed that now it can still cope with the situation and has opened a field hospital in the main hospital area, including Phon Hospital, Ban Phai Hospital, Chum Phae Hospital and Hospital. Somdej Phra Yuparat Kranuan, which at Somjee Phra Yuparat Kranuan Hospital Hospitals and staff that had just completed construction were immediately set up as a field hospital to accommodate patients in the area. Kranuan and area Neighboring districts according to the referral system and manage patients according to The Ministry of Health has set

 

https://www.khonkaenlink.info/read/57713/  via Google translate

[ChipButty]

As always Thailand wants be No1 

[tonray]

Sinovac proving to be virtually useless. Lost another month to poor decision making. Thai health workers need to be revacinated with working vaccines now.

[ThailandRyan]

41 minutes ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

some pc woke fools here, pretending they cant tell the difference between civilized & uncivilized countries...seriously, how have you survived so long out there without knowing this stuff.....

said the wolf in sheeple clothing...try again, and stop.  Look at the reports from the hospitals and tell me again how Thailand is truly doing with only 4% vaccinated and the Delta variant spreading through the country now.  Woke, now that's laughable.

Edited July 12, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[mikebell]

47 minutes ago, tonray said:

Sinovac proving to be virtually useless. Lost another month to poor decision making. Thai health workers need to be revacinated with working vaccines now.

Anutin has put all his eggs in one Chinese basket (for some reason!)  The rising infection rates show his failure as Health Minister.

[StayinThailand2much]

Damn! This time Thailand isn't #1 (yet)...

[ChipButty]

19 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Anutin has put all his eggs in one Chinese basket (for some reason!)  The rising infection rates show his failure as Health Minister.

There is probably a few reason why

[ChipButty]

I just get news from my wife one of her friends, her step father died Thursday and yesterday her mother died both from covid <deleted> this is not looking good

They live in Bangkok

[ThailandRyan]

52 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I just get news from my wife one of her friends, her step father died Thursday and yesterday her mother died both from covid <deleted> this is not looking good

They live in Bangkok

My condolences to the family.  This is hitting close to home with friends and relatives now in ICU's, dying, and then those who thought they were protected by being double vaccinated with Sinovac also becoming very ill, like my GF's 2 aunts who were on ventilators, but did recover enough to be removed from the ventilators and are still healing but not out of the woods by any means, and they are only in their early 50's.

[Caldera]

A direct result of the botched vaccination campaign. Sadly it will take quite a while to see these numbers improve.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

CCSA spokesman Dr Thaveesilp Visanuyothin announced a jump in the number of patients with severe symptoms to 2,738, with 717 on ventilators. Thailand also logged 9,326 new cases and recorded 91 fatalities on 10 July.

Considering the health of the average Thai especially in rural areas I expect it to go to #1 very soon.

[Scott Tracy]

This is not a competition to be number 1 is it?  We're only number 8 boys, we need to do better.

[Xonax]

5 hours ago, Excel said:

Mind you with the spread to other provinces thanks to the Bangkokians then I suspect we shall eventually see similar scenarios in many other provinces unfortunately

How do you actually know, that it is the Bangkokians that spread the virus and not the migrant workers from other provinces, who frequently travel between Bangkok and their home provinces? Please stop your hatred against Bangkokians, as most cases in Bangkok are among migrant workers from other provinces, sent here to support their families back home in Ubon Nowhere.