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Thailand on Saturday (July 17) reported 10,082 new COVID-19 cases and 141 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 
 

● 9,955 new infections
● 127 prison / prison infections
 

Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 391,989 with 3,240 deaths. 

(Total infections since April 1: 363,126)

The news comes as The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) is planning to elevate COVID-19 prevention measures in the 10 most strictly controlled provinces, after finding current restrictions are not having an impact on the situation, as well as violations of rules.

 

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Thailand on Saturday set a pair of grim new COVID records, with 10,082 new COVID cases in the past day passing the 10,000 mark for the first time, while also setting a new record high of 141 COVID deaths, the first time the nation’s daily COVID death toll had passed the 100 mark.

 

Saturday’s update came as the government mulled imposing tougher COVID restrictions in Bangkok and other hard-hit provinces. A government spokeswoman said the existing measures begun last Monday, including an overnight curfew and curbs on interprovincial travel, weren’t having enough of an impact and also often weren’t gaining enough public compliance.

 

Saturday’s COVID news fulfilled recent predictions that the hard-hit country would soon reach the 10,000 cases and 100 deaths per day mark. Saturday’s results blew past the country’s prior COVID record daily highs of 9,692 cases set just the day before, and 98 new deaths set just two days ago.

 

The new COVID cases reported Saturday included 9,955 among the general public, also a new daily record, and 127 cases from the nation’s prisons. Overall, Thailand's current level of daily COVID cases has increased by more than 60 percent from the 6,200+ daily cases of two weeks ago.

 

Health experts said the rising COVID cases and death tolls in Thailand have been spurred by the highly contagious Delta (India) variant of the coronavirus that’s becoming prevalent in the country. The pandemic has led to increased poverty, rising unemployment and simmering protests against the government.

 

Lately, news reports have begun showing COVID cases camped outside near hospitals unable to find beds, long queues of people seeking tests at COVID testing centers but ultimately being turned away for lack of capacity, and an aid group calling on residents to hang flags outside their homes if they need food or medical aid.

 

Since the start of the pandemic, Thailand has now recorded 391,989 total COVID cases and 3,240 total deaths, although some Thai doctors say the real figures, especially for cases, are likely much higher.

 

Thailand on Saturday once again reported new record-high levels of active COVID cases hospitalized (110,565) and the share of those in critical condition (3,454). The share of critical patients on ventilators declined from 847 to 839 on Saturday, but that likely was because of Saturday's record high number of 141 new deaths.

 

Total COVID hospitalizations have almost doubled in the past two weeks, and the share of those in critical condition has doubled in the past three weeks. As of Saturday, Thailand's tally of critical condition COVID patients, which increased by 87 for the day, had risen for 28 days in a row.

 

Meanwhile, the nation’s slow, haphazard and much-criticized COVID vaccination program took yet another left turn in Bangkok. Government officials there said they were indefinitely postponing all existing vaccination appointments for people ages 18 to 59 in order to focus limited vaccine supplies on the elderly.

 

Finally admitting a few more deaths. IMHO there are a lot more than this.

The situation is dire and rapidly degrading.

 

New highs with after the horse has bolted stricter measures being discussed. The awful death stats are now starting to filter through shooting into the 3 figure range. Previous measures have been a complete failure. The nonsense sprouted previously by officials of having this under control is hitting them squarely in the face but more importantly its everyone here in Thailand that is now further in danger from their mistakes.

 

10,082 positive cases today with 127 of those from prisons, 141 deaths

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 15th July only) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases.

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

I think they saw this coming, with all the talk of tighter lockdowns and travel bans yesterday.

It looks like the 6,300+ discharges plus 141 deaths freed up a few hundred more beds than yesterday, so they were able to squeeze in more patients into the hospital system. More hospital admissions = higher case numbers.

 

or, there was additional testing. Hopefully, more info will be released later today.

NEW HIGH: Chonburi Public Health Office has just announced they have 659 new cases and one more death. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (137), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (156), and Si Racha (181). The total cases so far is now 14,715 with 5,877 remaining in care 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1416192690132328449

 

 

Just now, brewsterbudgen said:

I think they saw this coming, with all the talk of tighter lockdowns and travel bans yesterday.

One gets a sense that actually the previous numbers were a bit low to facilitate this.....

The 10k barrier of resistance has been broken as well as the 100 deaths per day barrier.  Sad reality of what we are enduring currently and will continue to endure until this Government takes vaccinations seriously and does whats needed.  I see stricter restrictions occurring shortly and unfortunately but then as the past has been a predicter of future events people just don't listen.  Be prepared folks and take care of your families.  For those in a safe location you made the right moves.  I still do not understand the desire to keep the Sandbox open and now the Samui+ plan going, as who can travel to get there with newer restrictions in place not only in country but from international locales as well.  Sure they are vaccinated, but as we know you can still be infected and spread the virus which causes the disease.  Day 3 from when we were tested and maybe by the end of today we will know our results.  Possibly why we did not cross the 10k barrier until today because of case backlogs in processing.

NEW HIGH - #COVID19 Update on Saturday: 10,082 cases & 141 deaths (127 cases from prisons).  

13 July: 8,685 - 56 dead

14 July: 9,317 - 87 dead

15 July: 9,186 - 98 dead

16 July: 9,692 - 67 dead

17 July: 10,082 - 141 dead <— TODAY

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1416199416818462720

 

Very bad figures everywhere and getting worse by the day. You would think a competent government would be throwing every resource they had at getting vaccines in and administered, yet their performance on that front is appalling. God help us all, because aside from the French, our own countries are not going to it seems.

Okay, this looks really ugly now. They must put the whole country under full lockdown ASAP. I don't understand what the hell they are waiting for.

Really sad to see a record new high for deaths at 141. With the increasing number of people needing to go on ventilators (went from 364 to 847 in 30 days) it is inevitable the worse is yet to come. My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of those people #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1416203730287046658

 

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The situation is dire and rapidly degrading.

 

New highs with after the horse has bolted stricter measures being discussed. The awful death stats are now starting to filter through shooting into the 3 figure range. Previous measures have been a complete failure. The nonsense sprouted previously by officials of having this under control is hitting them squarely in the face but more importantly its everyone here in Thailand that is now further in danger from their mistakes.

 

10,082 positive cases today with 127 of those from prisons, 141 deaths

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 15th July only) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases.

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

Where do we go from here "To the moon Alice, to the moon".  Look at the 7 day rolling average as it climbs.  This should definitely put Thailand amongst the tops in Asia but then I am probably wrong as this is occurring everywhere.

Why do they track prison infections and non-prison infections as separate numbers?

Next week we sign a contract for Moderna and we hope that the vaccines will arrive at the 4th quarter of this year some day.. Az has a problem which we knew for a long time already and other vaccines we don't care about we have everything under control with Sinovac and AZ and even Sinopharm...In the meantime we kill the businesses, and make the people poorer than before and we fill our pockets more and more...Happiness to the people with rising daily cases and deaths. THank you big leader..

7 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Where do we go from here "To the moon Alice, to the moon".  Look at the 7 day rolling average as it climbs.  This should definitely put Thailand amongst the tops in Asia but then I am probably wrong as this is occurring everywhere.

While it is hardly a source of well being... do what I just did. Put the graphs from  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/indonesia/ in an adjacent tab to those from Thailand, look at daily new infections and deaths and take note of the scale to the left in each case. It could be frightening to think Thailand heads that way. 

Best they rush to announce the US is donating 1.5 million doses of Pfizer for the umpteenth time this month, that'll make it look like they're achieving something.

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Really sad to see a record new high for deaths at 141. With the increasing number of people needing to go on ventilators (went from 364 to 847 in 30 days) it is inevitable the worse is yet to come. My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of those people #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1416203730287046658

 

Although there are record highs for deaths and new cases today in #Thailand, it shouldn’t be overlooked that there is also another new high - 6,327 people were discharged from care and were able to go home. We must be thankful for any good news we can get. Stay safe and #StayHome

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1416203738033778689

 

3 minutes ago, bamboozled said:

Why do they track prison infections and non-prison infections as separate numbers?

Historical.... prisons were overlooked for some time early on in this wave, then, when tested, it caused rather a frightening jump in total numbers. To make this less a source of panic, the numbers were listed separately and it just carried on that way. 

90 days or so until this fool wants to open the entire country. The 14 day pseudo lockdown will not control this. I see that the CCSA is blaming increased spread on people breaking curfew but this is just deflection away from there own mishandling of the pandemic. I warned yesterday that an alcohol ban maybe likey. I feel the chances of this has increased. 

5 minutes ago, dan42 said:

Okay, this looks really ugly now. They must put the whole country under full lockdown ASAP. I don't understand what the hell they are waiting for.

They are waiting for natural herd immunity which is pretty obvious from the current settings as those that ruin (oops I spelt run incorrect) this country have been vaccinated so now there is now rush for vaccines and no priority given to the elderly and vulnerable.

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The 10k barrier of resistance has been broken as well as the 100 deaths per day barrier.  Sad reality of what we are enduring currently and will continue to endure until this Government takes vaccinations seriously and does whats needed.  I see stricter restrictions occurring shortly and unfortunately but then as the past has been a predicter of future events people just don't listen.  Be prepared folks and take care of your families.  For those in a safe location you made the right moves.  I still do not understand the desire to keep the Sandbox open and now the Samui+ plan going, as who can travel to get there with newer restrictions in place not only in country but from international locales as well.  Sure they are vaccinated, but as we know you can still be infected and spread the virus which causes the disease.  Day 3 from when we were tested and maybe by the end of today we will know our results.  Possibly why we did not cross the 10k barrier until today because of case backlogs in processing.

 

If Thailand have 100+ covid deaths per day and 10,000 covid infections per day, why worry about the Phuket Sandbox?

 

The real danger is closer to home.

 

Wonder when Chonburi will reach 1,000.

So the Doctor that predicted 10,000 infections per day,

before end of the month was correct, now looking at  what

the next level is to break, with all these people getting

the Sinovac jab and thinking they are protected, it's

not looking good.

regards Worgeordie

 

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Historical.... prisons were overlooked for some time early on in this wave, then, when tested, it caused rather a frightening jump in total numbers. To make this less a source of panic, the numbers were listed separately and it just carried on that way. 

I don't think they were overlooked just hidden from public view.

1 minute ago, nkg said:

 

If Thailand have 100+ covid deaths per day and 10,000 covid infections per day, why worry about the Phuket Sandbox?

 

The real danger is closer to home.

 

The sandboxes down south are a farcical sideshow in the midst of events central to Thailand.

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

While it is hardly a source of well being... do what I just did. Put the graphs from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/indonesia/ in an adjacent tab to those from Thailand, look at daily new infections and deaths and take note of the scale to the left in each case. It could be frightening to think Thailand heads that way. 

It is unfortunately the direction we are heading here.  I hate to say it but did not many of us say this was a possibility and probability based upon what we were saying.  However, we are name shamed as doomsayers and doom mongers, when all we point out is the scale and how things are going.  Could we have been wrong, sure we could have, but as we see now we were unfortunately correct in our views based upon seeing the inactions and the lack of enforcement put in place by the Government to slowly while allowing the exodus to occur and a failed vaccination roll-out.  Ugliness, pure ugliness.  Is it worse elsewhere sure it is, but we are here in Thailand where we have family and friends being impacted and even neighbors.  Stay safe folks.

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

The sandboxes down south are a farcical sideshow in the midst of events central to Thailand.

 

Correct, they are irrelevant. But some would like to blame the Phuket Sandbox for the increased infections.

4 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Historical.... prisons were overlooked for some time early on in this wave, then, when tested, it caused rather a frightening jump in total numbers. To make this less a source of panic, the numbers were listed separately and it just carried on that way. 

IT would be nice to know how many infections are inside of the locked down camps, since they stopped testing them and will not allow testing inside.  I think the sheer numbers are scaring this government and the BMA into even more inaction.  Putting their heads in the sand will not make this go away anytime soon.