Thai construction workers infected by hybrid of Delta and Alpha variants

[snoop1130]

Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

 

A construction worker was found to be simultaneously infected by both the Alpha and Delta COVID-19 variants, while six others were infected with a hybrid strain of the two, according to Director-General of the Medical Sciences Department Dr. Supakit Sirilak today (Monday).

 

Expressing shock by the finding, while reassuring the public the seven cases were not severe, Dr. Supakit said this is why it was necessary to seal worker housing facilities in and around Bangkok late last month.

 

The cases remain, however, of concern and follow-up monitoring is needed, to prevent infections by two virus strains at the same time from spreading to the point that the combination of the strains in a single host result in a new variant.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-construction-workers-infected-by-hybrid-of-delta-and-alpha-variants/

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Expressing shock by the finding, while reassuring the public the seven cases were not severe, Dr. Supakit said this is why it was necessary to seal worker housing facilities in and around Bangkok late last month.

They've got this the wrong way round, its the bubble and seal that created the new variants!

 

Reap what you sow, the inhumane bubble and seal were always designed to let the workers and migrants infect themselves until herd immunity was created, seems they are pretty successful at that.

 

Seems they just as successful at unleashing new variants through co infection. Why oh why did they not think of that before, posters on here had been warning about it for months, not rocket science exactly!

[Mr Meeseeks]

A new variant. 

[zhounan]

Sorry, I'm ignorant, how many variants seasonal flu have?

[hioctane]

42 minutes ago, zhounan said:

Sorry, I'm ignorant, how many variants seasonal flu have?

An infinite number. Same as all viruses.   Every time someone gets infected, the virus multiples and mutates ever so slightly and then the host passes it on. 

[chalawaan]

It's interesting how this virus really seems to want to almost sabotage the nasty class and racially segregated attitudes here by forcing them to take care of these poor sods, or pay the price later in the wider community.

 

I wonder if it will produce better leaders?

 

I wonder if it will teach lessons on how not to run a "democracy"?

 

I wonder if they will ever get a leader who will be serious about corruption and reform?

 

I wonder if the vaccines will arrive before these milestones in modern statehood ever appear on the horizon?

 

 

 

[RichardColeman]

Well, this could be the final nail in the re-opening bubble !

 

Unless the Chinese 'saviour' vaccine finally shows some efficacy - yeah, I doubt it too

Edited July 12, 2021 by RichardColeman

[rbkk]

Infected with both Alpha and Beta varients reported on the same day on the other side of the world.

"She added that while there had been “no other published cases” of similar co-infections, the “phenomenon is probably underestimated”.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/belgian-woman-died-covid-alpha-beta-variants-b945194.html

 

A construction worker was found to be simultaneously infected by both the Alpha and Delta COVID-19 variants

 

"...six others were infected with a hybrid strain of the two"...Soon to be called the "?" variant.

 

It's hard keeping up.

 

[dinsdale]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

They've got this the wrong way round, its the bubble and seal that created the new variants!

Reap what you sow, the inhumane bubble and seal were alway

s designed to let the workers and migrants infect themselves until herd immunity was created, seems they are pretty successful at that.

 

Seems they just as successful at unleashing new variants through co infection. Why oh why did they not think of that before, posters on here had been warning about it for months, not rocket science exactly!

Govt attitude. Don't care if they starve. Don't care if they all get infected. Don't care if they die. That's their level of thinking. Thais have a big problem with forward thinking and consequences. I said a couple of days ago the same thing might happen in the UK. 60,000 at Wembely yesterday and not a mask to be seen. Millions more I guess on the streets. It's madness. 

[ukrules]

2 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

A new variant. 

A Thai Variant

[meechai]

5 hours ago, hioctane said:

An infinite number. Same as all viruses.   Every time someone gets infected, the virus multiples and mutates ever so slightly and then the host passes it on. 

You will surely enrage the vaccine is all powerful crowd with that one ????

 

But you are correct & it is the reason no vaccine for any covid virus was ever succesful

Same as why they have no vaccine for HIV which mutates even quicker than Covid's

 

But Companies like Pfizer are quite happy with the long term outlook for their boosters

[ourmanflint]

I do hope this doesn't escape from the camps into the general population. That's all Thailand needs is a home made variant of concern

[englishoak]

There are 7 BILLION people on the planet, best get used to the idea of living with many many varients.... supply  chains are already breaking down,economies are being decimated,QE and  fake money creation wont fix it, vaccines wont "fix" it.

 

There is no chance of containment,this was clear last year and no hiding no gov mandates or "extreme"measures are  going to stop it in a modern,globally connected world, the waves will go on until it burns out thinking a face nappy and destroying livlihoods will do anything but delay the variant waves from crashing into a population at  some point is futile ... so best get on with your life, stop the fussing and accept we are here for a short moment in  time and then gone. 

 

Open up, expect to catch a variant and live your life well and do what you can to stay healthy... what will  be will  be

[faraday]

There'll be a triple hybrid before long, with an even more scary name....

 

And then, another vaccine will appear.

[nobodysfriend]

2020 changed the world into pre-covid and post-covid .

It does not look like it will ever completely disappear .

Need to learn to live with it .

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, ukrules said:

A Thai Variant

A cheap copy, no need to worry.

[Kinnock]

11 hours ago, zhounan said:

Sorry, I'm ignorant, how many variants seasonal flu have?

Don't mention the F-word!  Anyone suggesting COVID-19 is like a serious seasonal flu epidemic will be dragged to the market square, put in the stocks and have 'facts' thrown at them.

[Kinnock]

4 hours ago, ourmanflint said:

I do hope this doesn't escape from the camps into the general population. That's all Thailand needs is a home made variant of concern

Of course it will ...... but so what?

 

If we tracked every mutated flu and SARS virus variant and made dramatic press announcement we'd have a new press release every 5 minutes.

 

The real issue is the capability of labs to perform genetic typing to highlight natural viral evolution, combined with the irrational media reporting - which creates fear and illogical, unscientific responses by governments who can't assess actual risks.

 

Unfortunately for all other species on the planet, this pandemic has had almost no impact on human population growth.

[Cake Monster]

11 hours ago, hioctane said:

An infinite number. Same as all viruses.   Every time someone gets infected, the virus multiples and mutates ever so slightly and then the host passes it on. 

You are 100 % correct with this post.

The Virus mutates all the time in order to survive, and to become stronger.

Some mutations will be less ' powerful " and others will mutate into something more Toxic, and more transmissible.

There are probably many Thousands of Mutations in circulation right now, but only very few become ( as the WHO says ) " Variants of concern ", which as variants that have mutated to become more powerful and harmful to us Humans.

[mtls2005]

Is this really a new variant?

 

Sounds like people have both separate variants simultaneously?

 

 

 

 

[Kinnock]

3 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

You are 100 % correct with this post.

The Virus mutates all the time in order to survive, and to become stronger.

Some mutations will be less ' powerful " and others will mutate into something more Toxic, and more transmissible.

There are probably many Thousands of Mutations in circulation right now, but only very few become ( as the WHO says ) " Variants of concern ", which as variants that have mutated to become more powerful and harmful to us Humans.

..... and if it mutates in something significantly more transmissable but less harmful, it will fade out.  

 

Just like most viral pandemics. 

[Cake Monster]

3 hours ago, Kinnock said:

..... and if it mutates in something significantly more transmissable but less harmful, it will fade out.  

 

Just like most viral pandemics. 

Of course that is always possible

[Autonuaq]

why shocked about finding two mutation ins one person? there are more known cases that this has happened. recently a Belgian woman of 90 all just in the global accessable news.

 

of course governments around the world not suite this and try acting that they are surprised.

 

[Danderman123]

22 hours ago, Kinnock said:

 

 

Unfortunately for all other species on the planet, this pandemic has had almost no impact on human population growth.

I can’t think of many people who would so cooly dismiss 4 million deaths.

[Kinnock]

2 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

I can’t think of many people who would so cooly dismiss 4 million deaths.

Before COVID most people never looked at death statistics, now people quote numbers without any context.  About 60 million people die every year, and many of that 4 million would have died without COVID as they are in the vulnerable groups.

 

COVID deaths numbers are not too different to deaths of children from common diarrhoea every year, but most people coolly dismissed those deaths.

 

And around 150 million are born each year.

 

Yes, any extra death of a close relative due to COVID is a tragedy for the close family, but so are deaths from suicide and starvation due to the economic impacts of panicky unscientific measures to try and control a pandemic with bureaucracy.

 

The media never put the pandemic in perspective as it's not in their interest to do so.

Edited July 14, 2021 by Kinnock

[Danderman123]

34 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

Before COVID most people never looked at death statistics, now people quote numbers without any context.  About 60 million people die every year, and many of that 4 million would have died without COVID as they are in the vulnerable groups.

 

COVID deaths numbers are not too different to deaths of children from common diarrhoea every year, but most people coolly dismissed those deaths.

 

And around 150 million are born each year.

 

Yes, any extra death of a close relative due to COVID is a tragedy for the close family, but so are deaths from suicide and starvation due to the economic impacts of panicky unscientific measures to try and control a pandemic with bureaucracy.

 

The media never put the pandemic in perspective as it's not in their interest to do so.

You don’t get it.

 

Covid-19 is different from other causes of death because it is extremely infectious. It takes severe measures to limit deaths to the 4 million so far. To the extent that certain people downplay the epidemic, the resolve to maintain those restrictions is weakened, as we have seen around the world. So, restrictions are lifted and more people die.

 

You can peddle your “the epidemic is no big deal” later, when the epidemic has passed. But, for now, you are spewing misinformation that would help kill people if anyone took you seriously.

[MayBeNow]

24 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

You don’t get it.

 

Covid-19 is different from other causes of death because it is extremely infectious. It takes severe measures to limit deaths to the 4 million so far. To the extent that certain people downplay the epidemic, the resolve to maintain those restrictions is weakened, as we have seen around the world. So, restrictions are lifted and more people die.

 

You can peddle your “the epidemic is no big deal” later, when the epidemic has passed. But, for now, you are spewing misinformation that would help kill people if anyone took you seriously.

Danderman123, shall we agree to disagree? 

'We' are infected by logic, rationale, science and seeing covid in (historical) perspective.

'You and others' are infected by media fear, breaking news, headlines, hard lockdowns and end of times scenarios. Provided by inept goverments, profit seeking media and big pharma.

 

Us two infections shall not meet.

Edited July 14, 2021 by MayBeNow

[Kinnock]

26 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

You don’t get it.

 

Covid-19 is different from other causes of death because it is extremely infectious. It takes severe measures to limit deaths to the 4 million so far. To the extent that certain people downplay the epidemic, the resolve to maintain those restrictions is weakened, as we have seen around the world. So, restrictions are lifted and more people die.

 

You can peddle your “the epidemic is no big deal” later, when the epidemic has passed. But, for now, you are spewing misinformation that would help kill people if anyone took you seriously.

You've really swallowed all of the media induced fear and added some of your own.  And yet you are still alive, as are most of the 7 billion people on the planet. 

 

Also - when this pandemic is over, there will be another, then another.  Just not so newsworthy and no daft Government measures.  And now we have the technology to develop vaccines rapidly too.

Edited July 14, 2021 by Kinnock

[ba ba]

maybe the two together will kill each other

[englishoak]

Based and red pilled