10% of people in Bangkok given COVID-19 antigen tests since July 12 infected

[webfact]

 

About 10% of over 50,000 people in Bangkok checked using antigen test kits (ATK) since July 12th, under an active screening campaign, have tested positive for COVID-19, according to  the National Health Security Office (NHSO).

 

NHSO Secretary-general Dr. Jadet Thammathat-Aree said yesterday (Thursday) that, given the 3% inaccuracy rate, the test results produced by ATKs are reliable.

 

The use of ATKs in the active screening of communities and in several public venues in Bangkok is being jointly conducted by the Ministry of Public Health, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the NHSO.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/10-of-people-in-bangkok-given-covid-19-antigen-tests-since-july-12-infected/

 

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[Cake Monster]

With a population of 10.7 Million, Bangkok has a real problem with a 10 % Infection rate.

Where are those Vaccines exactly ?

[hotchilli]

8 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

With a population of 10.7 Million, Bangkok has a real problem with a 10 % Infection rate.

Where are those Vaccines exactly ?

If they did a 100% test they'd be in for a a shock.

[Mac Mickmanus]

4 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

If they did a 100% test they'd be in for a a shock.

Quite likely to have the same 10 % infection rate 

[Caldera]

And yet officially Bangkok has about 3,000 new cases daily. If any more proof was needed that the official numbers are effectively meaningless, here it is.

[impulse]

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

6 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

With a population of 10.7 Million, Bangkok has a real problem with a 10 % Infection rate.

Where are those Vaccines exactly ?

If they did a 100% test they'd be in for a a shock.

Maybe, maybe not.  They haven't addressed selection bias where the people only go to get tested because they think they need treatment.  If they don't feel sick, who wants to risk being whisked off to quarantine?

 

[Bkk Brian]

This one says 19% of people tested were positive:

 

Bangkok infection rate ‘out of control’ as 1 in 5 test positive

 

The Rural Doctors Society (RDS) warned on Friday that the infection rate in Bangkok communities has reached 19 per cent, indicating that the outbreak is now out of control in the capital.

 

DS is working with the National Health Security Office (NHSO) on active case finding in over 30 Bangkok communities that have never before been investigated by the Public Health Ministry. Eleven teams of doctors have been giving swab tests at 14 locations with a target of testing 15,000 people in total.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40003670

[NotYourBusiness]

These tests are not foolproof. How many are false positives?

[nobodysfriend]

23 hours ago, webfact said:

About 10% of over 50,000 people in Bangkok checked using antigen test kits (ATK) since July 12th, under an active screening campaign, have tested positive for COVID-19

That reflects about the real percentage of infected persons in all of Thailand , I think .

= about 7 million carriers of the virus .

[Boomer6969]

22 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

That reflects about the real percentage of infected persons in all of Thailand , I think .

= about 7 million carriers of the virus .

Not, the number of antibody positive patients will be a lot higher as you'd have to include all people infected for the last 6 months. these 10 or 20% are only current/recent infections.

 

India peaked out with 70% of the population being antibody positive.