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Thailand on Wednesday (July 14) reported 9,317 new COVID-19 cases and 87 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 
 

● 9,188 new infections

● 129 prison / prison infections
 

Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 363,029 with 2,934 deaths. 

 

(Total infections since April 1: 334,166)

The news comes as Thailand has given the go-ahead for home isolation of coronavirus patients with mild symptoms and use of home self-test kits, as a stubborn coronavirus outbreak puts pressure on its capital's healthcare and testing capacity.

 

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After a two-day pause, new reported COVID cases in Thailand on Wednesday rebounded back above the 9,000 mark (9,317), while new COVID deaths also rebounded to 87, marking the country’s second highest daily death toll of the pandemic.

 

Wednesday’s update meant Thailand’s daily new COVID cases have now exceeded 9,200 for four of the past six days after two consecutive 8,600+ case days. The 9,317 new cases is Thailand’s third highest daily total of the pandemic, with the highest single-day total being the 9,539 cases reported July 11.

 

Deaths rose from the 56 reported Tuesday to 87 on Wednesday. By comparison, Thailand's single day high for COVID deaths was 91 reported on July 10.

 

Wednesday’s results, with the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus still spreading throughout Thailand, pushed the country back toward predictions that it will soon surpass 10,000 new COVID cases and 100 COVID deaths per day.

 

The new COVID numbers came on the third day of new COVID restrictions that took effect on Monday in Bangkok and nine other hard-hit provinces including an overnight 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew, restrictions on interprovincial travel and various business closures in Bangkok and five adjoining provinces.

 

Wednesday’s update included 9,188 new cases in the general population and 129 cases coming from prisons. Since the start of the pandemic, Thailand has now recorded 363,029 total COVID cases and 2,934 deaths, although some Thai doctors say the real figures, especially for cases, are likely much higher.

 

Because of the rapid rise in new COVID cases in Thailand, the country as of Wednesday was still reporting new record high levels of COVID cases hospitalized (99,511), the share of those in critical condition (3,201), and the share of those requiring ventilators to breathe (828).

 

The number of COVID patients hospitalized in critical condition passed the 3,000 threshold for the first time Tuesday. All the above hospital figures -- hospitalizations, critical condition and ventilators -- have doubled in the past two to three+ weeks.

 

As of Wednesday, Thailand's population of hospitalized COVID patients in critical condition had increased daily for 25 days in a row. The share of those requiring ventilators to breathe had increased for nine days in a row.

 

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BKK and 5 adjoining province lockdown restrictions beyond 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. daily curfew:

 

1.  Government/private “Work From Home” encouraged

2.  Public transport (buses & rail lines) close at 9 p.m. until at least 4 a.m.

3.  Department store, shopping center, and community mall shops closed, except for…

4.  Within malls and centers, the following can open until 8 p.m.: supermarkets, takeout food outlets, banks & financial institutions, pharmacies, building supplies, postage/parcel & mobile phone related shops.

5.  No sit-down dining allowed. Takeout food & beverage service allowed till 8 p.m.

6.  Convenience stores & night markets close 8 p.m. to 4 a.m.

7.  Schools, indoor fitness centers, massage parlors, spas, cosmetic clinics closed

8.  Public gatherings of more than 5 people banned.

9.  Parks and outdoors sports & exercise venues open till 8 p.m.

 

 

9,317 positive cases today with 129 of those from prisons, 87 more deaths. Indonesia taking a a far worse hit lets hope Thailand manages this well enough to avoid their current nightmare experience.

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 12th July only) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases.

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

 

Still no look on the horizon of numbers being reduced.

 

Imagine if they tested more effectively. Well we all know that outcome.

It looks like discharges from the hospital system were up to 5,317 yesterday, which created a little extra capacity for new cases to rise above 9,000.

 

I’m not sure how case numbers can rise above 10,000 if hospital capacity continues to be constrained, and pro-active testing is limited.  Hopefully, new hospital and field hospital beds will be available soon. But, the self-isolation system lends itself to under reporting, as hospitals can now tell people just to go home, and maybe not test them first.

No surprise here. Guess some people on here will have to modify their thinking from the last couple of days. Thailand is now into the top 60 on the Worlometer Covid Charts at No. 59.

Update on Wednesday: 9,317 cases & 87 deaths (129 cases from prisons). Full details at 12:30pm

9 July: 9,276 - 72 dead

10 July: 9,326 - 91 dead

11 July: 9,539 - 86 dead

12 July: 8,656 - 80 dead

13 July: 8,685 - 56 dead

14 July: 9,317 - 87 dead <— TODAY

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1415112376630710272

 

A bounce back upwards as we pretty much knew would occur.  Life is full of surprises but this was not truly one of those.  The sad reality is that we are reaching a time where the spread is already everywhere in Thailand and resources are being spread thin.  All I can say is stay safe folks and be prepared to take care of your families and whomever else you can afford to because this government has another agenda, and it does not include helping out a majority of the people here in Thailand, including the Thais themselves.  Sad reality.

NEW HIGH: Chonburi Public Health Office has just announced they have 513 new cases and two more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (77), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (128), and Si Racha (121). The total cases so far is now 13,003 with 4,812 remaining in care

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1415096485318823937

 

Just now, Bkk Brian said:

NEW HIGH: Chonburi Public Health Office has just announced they have 513 new cases and two more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (77), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (128), and Si Racha (121). The total cases so far is now 13,003 with 4,812 remaining in care

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1415096485318823937

 

So if the D'Man is correct and they only test 1k a day in Chonburi then there is a 51.3% positivity rate, hence the Governors lockdown there now, well semi soft lockdown.....He must have known what was coming.

Guns out in Bangkok last night then....................

 

The Thai regime is taking #COVID19 curfew very seriously indeed. 

https://twitter.com/PravitR/status/1414957319247519747

 

Thammasat University Hospital is planning to obtain two freight containers as it is running out of space to store the remains of Covid-19 victims in its morgue amid the spike of new infections in recent weeks

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1414970104987758593

 

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

So if the D'Man is correct and they only test 1k a day in Chonburi then there is a 51.3% positivity rate, hence the Governors lockdown there now, well semi soft lockdown.....He must have known what was coming.

Remember that Chonburi testing numbers are a composite of pro-active testing (usually around 1,000 tests a day) plus testing of contacts of known infecteds plus hospital walk-in cases. I don’t know the total number of tests conducted per day, but it is probably much higher than 1,000. And the positivity rate of walk-ins and close contacts will be very high.

Here's a model of the true infections in Thailand, if you take the mean average then it indicates over 26,000 thousand a day although the data is up till the end of June only so now would be even more:

 

"A key limitation in our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic is that we do not know the true number of infections. Instead, we only know of infections that have been confirmed by a test – the confirmed cases. But because many infected people never get tested,2 we know that confirmed cases are only a fraction of true infections. How small a fraction though?

To answer this question, several research groups have developed epidemiological models of COVID-19. These models use the data we have – confirmed cases and deaths, testing rates, and more – plus a range of assumptions and epidemiological knowledge to estimate true infections and other important metrics."

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-models#institute-for-health-metrics-and-evaluation-ihme

 

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Thammasat University Hospital is planning to obtain two freight containers as it is running out of space to store the remains of Covid-19 victims in its morgue amid the spike of new infections in recent weeks

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1414970104987758593

 

They need to use more Crematoriums or else the bodies will continue to fill up available spaces.  Where are those folks who when we stated this would get worse, they said Thailand was doing well and hospitals were not full and bodies were not piling up and we were scaremongers, fear mongers and so on....yes that last part is Rhetorical in nature.  

18 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

It looks like discharges from the hospital system were up to 5,317 yesterday, which created a little extra capacity for new cases to rise above 9,000.

 

I’m not sure how case numbers can rise above 10,000 if hospital capacity continues to be constrained, and pro-active testing is limited.  Hopefully, new hospital and field hospital beds will be available soon. But, the self-isolation system lends itself to under reporting, as hospitals can now tell people just to go home, and maybe not test them first.

Did someone hack your account (just teasing) you sound so sensible. 

Besides the first part.. the way i look it there is still a 3700 shortage created not new capacity. Of course depending on home isolation.

24 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand on Wednesday (July 14) reported 9,317 new COVID-19 cases and 87 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

contrary to the teachings of the "Trolling Handbook 101 - 2nd Edition" nobody wanted to see figures like that

15 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Thammasat University Hospital is planning to obtain two freight containers as it is running out of space to store the remains of Covid-19 victims in its morgue amid the spike of new infections in recent weeks

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1414970104987758593

 

 

Makeshift morgues and crematoriums being overrun.... Where have we seen that before?  The U.S. comes to mind, among others.

 

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

They need to use more Crematoriums or else the bodies will continue to fill up available spaces.  Where are those folks who when we stated this would get worse, they said Thailand was doing well and hospitals were not full and bodies were not piling up and we were scaremongers, fear mongers and so on....yes that last part is Rhetorical in nature.  

Don't forget we were the non fun crowd, the ones that were against opening things up like bars. There was no problem in Thailand so things could open up.

 

There still are a few die hards who keep saying its ok death rate is low. But you will always have those can't argue with idiots. 

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Makeshift morgues and crematoriums being overrun.... Where have we seen that before?  The U.S. comes to mind.

 

I wonder how crematoriums can overrun with only 90 extra deaths a day. Unless of course its a lot more that we don't hear about.

Asean sees over 78,000 new cases

 

The number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia crossed 5.67 million, with 78,547 new cases reported on Tuesday – higher than Monday’s tally of 71,510 – while there were 1,266 more deaths, a decrease from Monday’s 1,292, taking total coronavirus deaths in Asean to 108,704.

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40003209

26 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Thailand manages this well enough to avoid their current nightmare experience.

I honestly don't see how they can - so many similarities

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Makeshift morgues and crematoriums being overrun.... Where have we seen that before?  The U.S. comes to mind.

 

and India...and now Indonesia as well...

I am not sure the reason or what their protocol is, but there sure seems to be an increase in ambulances rushing around Pattaya in general with lights and sirens.     

3 minutes ago, robblok said:

I wonder how crematoriums can overrun with only 90 extra deaths a day. Unless of course its a lot more that we don't hear about.

 

Dunno what kind of burning methods/technologies the temples here use.... But for those who missed the news report yesterday on the subject, it said temple crematoriums were having problems because they were handling so many cremations that they weren't having any opportunity to cool down.

 

21 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

A bounce back upwards as we pretty much knew would occur.  Life is full of surprises but this was not truly one of those.  The sad reality is that we are reaching a time where the spread is already everywhere in Thailand and resources are being spread thin.  All I can say is stay safe folks and be prepared to take care of your families and whomever else you can afford to because this government has another agenda, and it does not include helping out a majority of the people here in Thailand, including the Thais themselves.  Sad reality.

Living here has been ok up to now - most of the things they do don't really affect me so it hasbeen tolerable - this is now something completely different when it affects me and  my very life in a very big way because of their incompetance and corruption 

2 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I am not sure the reason or what their protocol is, but there sure seems to be an increase in ambulances rushing around Pattaya in general with lights and sirens.     

Probably picking up those needing to be hospitalized, while also responding to homes and removing deceased folks.  Look at the Ambulance as it drives by, if they are all in a PPE (White suit) then they are a Covid transport...

One off-topic trolling post has been removed, along with another post commenting on a fellow forum member.

 

23 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

So if the D'Man is correct and they only test 1k a day in Chonburi then there is a 51.3% positivity rate, hence the Governors lockdown there now, well semi soft lockdown.....He must have known what was coming.

of course they did - actions speak louder than words as have to constantly read between the lines - hiding the truth in a pandemic is not helpful to anyone - they would get more respect for being open and honest - pity they don't realise that

9 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Dunno what kind of burning methods/technologies the temples here use.... But for those who missed the news report yesterday on the subject, it said temple crematoriums were having problems because they were handling so many cremations that they weren't having any opportunity to cool down.

 

Let me speculate that since many infections are in clusters, temples within those clusters are having to deal with body disposal, whereas many temples outside the clusters aren’t busy.