webfact Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 File photo: REUTERS Thailand on Wednesday (July 28) reported 16,533 new COVID-19 cases and 133 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. ● 16,331 new infections ● 202 prison / prison infections Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 543,361 with 4,397 deaths. (Total infections since April 1: 514,498) The news comes as an immunogenicity study, conducted in Germany, shows the mixed use of viral vector and mRNA vaccines induces a significantly high level of anti-spike and neutralizing antibodies, close to the level induced by two doses of mRNA vaccine, according to Professor Dr. Manop Pithukpakorn, head of the Excellence Centre for Genomics and Precision Medicine at Siriraj Hospital. Dr. Manop cited the immunogenicity study, published in the Nature Medicine journal, which was a comparative study between two cohorts, one administered with viral vector AstraZeneca (AZ) and one of the two mRNA vaccines, Pfizer or Moderna, and another administered with two doses of Pfizer or Moderna. -- © Copyright ASEAN NOW 2021-07-28 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TallGuyJohninBKK Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 After a one day pause, the COVID pandemic in Thailand rebounded with resounding force on Wednesday as the country reported a new record high 16,533 new cases and set its second highest daily deaths total with 133. It was the country’s fifth daily record high in cases among the past seven days. Wednesday’s 16,533 new cases marked a 2,383 case increase from the 14,150 one-day dip in cases reported Tuesday, as daily cases in Thailand have rocketed upward from the 10,000 range in mid-July. Wednesday’s 133 new deaths was surpassed only by the 141 fatalities reported on July 17. Wednesday’s new case count included 16,331 among the general public and 202 from Thailand’s prisons. Thailand has now totaled 543,361 COVID cases and 4,397 COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic in January 2020, though most of those have occurred just since this April. Wednesday’s large increase was driven by Bangkok province suddenly reporting a record high of 3,997 cases after recent days of declines. Meanwhile, the national tally still has yet to count the more than 3,000 COVID cases found over the weekend at a Saha Farms chicken processing plant in Phetchabun province. Now in the worst of a so-called third wave that began in April, Thailand’s COVID outbreak has spread lately from its original center in Bangkok and several adjoining provinces to the entire nation. All or almost all of Thailand’s 77 provinces lately have been reporting new COVID cases on a daily basis. Health experts said the rising COVID case and death tolls in Thailand have been driven by the highly contagious Delta (India) variant of the coronavirus that’s now become dominant in the country. Its toll has been worsened by Thailand’s lagging COVID vaccination program that has only fully vaccinated about 5 percent of the population after months of effort, partly due to limited supplies of government procured vaccines. The country’s health care system has been brought to the breaking point by the worsening pandemic. Thailand on Wednesday again reported a new record high for active COVID cases hospitalized (178,270), as well as new record highs for critical patients (4,325) and the share of those on ventilators (995). Total COVID hospitalizations have almost doubled in the past two-plus weeks, and the share of those in critical condition has almost doubled in the past month. Prior to a single day decline on Tuesday, Thailand's tally of critical condition COVID patients had risen to new daily records for the past 37 days in a row. In other developments: --More signs emerged of a Thai public health system being overrun by the current COVID pandemic with few to no available hospital beds, especially in Bangkok. The government-run Ramathibodi Hospital announced it will stop accepting new walk-in patients starting Aug. 1 because of COVID. Also, the director of the government’s Mongkut Wattana Hospital, repeatedly calling the current situation “a public disaster,” bluntly warned residents not to dump sick COVID patients there in hopes that they can be admitted. --The rising case counts and ill patients have left government officials scrambling to free up existing hospital beds and add new ones. On Tuesday, a government train carried some 135 COVID-positive residents from Bangkok back to their home provinces in the Northeast for isolation. Elsewhere, Bangkok officials said they were looking at converting sleeper train beds into temporary quarantine space for COVID patients showing no symptoms. --Across the country with 14,150 total new cases on Tuesday, 39 of Thailand’s 77 provinces, a new high, reported more than 100 new COVID cases each, led by Bangkok with 2,635 and Samut Sakhon with 1,092. Plus three other provinces came close to making the 100+ list, each reporting 100 new cases. --Bangkok province’s 2,635 new case count Tuesday rose slightly for the day, ending three days of declines, but remained well below the province’s July 10 record of 3,191 cases, as case growth was greater in outlying provinces. The government said 56 percent of Bangkok residents had received their first COVID vaccination shot as of July 25, but only 13 percent their full vaccination second shot. --For foreign nationals, the government’s Bang Sue Central Vaccination Center in Bangkok will continue to allow limited walk-in vaccinations for those age 75 and above living in Bangkok and five adjoining provinces at least through the end of the month. For more info, see the website https://www.thailandintervac.com/ --Foreign nationals age 60 and above who live in those same six provinces can still pre-register online for Bang Sue appointments. And, starting in early August, a government spokesman said vaccinations at Bang Sue will be expanded to foreign nationals under age 60, but offered no further specifics. 8 2 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) Deaths and case numbers are moving upwards again. The question is are the numbers from Phetcahbun included or not. Guess we will have to wait until this afternoon to see the provincial breakdowns. Not buying the 56% of Bangkok's residents being vaccinated. Seems a little high to me with the numbers of vaccinations they are doing daily. Edited July 28, 2021 by ThailandRyan 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Another new high has been reached today while Prayut estimates this will affect the country for only another 2, 3 or 4 weeks............crystal ball in play again, while the Thai population suffers, hospitals now closing to all new patients due to being full and in Bangkok the remainder are overflowing. Volunteers are fighting for the lives of those at home unable to secure medical treatment. The communal care being provided by the organizations is amazing and without them many more Thai's would be dying at home. Total of 16,533 new infections, with 202 of those from prison and 14,321 in the community. 133 covid deaths recorded. Rolling 7 day average (up to 26th July) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases from daily official announcements. https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand 9 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 NEW HIGH - #COVID19 Update on Wednesday: 16,533 new cases (202 from prisons) and 10,051 released from care. 133 deaths. Full details at 12:30pm #Thailand #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ 26 July: 15,376 - 87 dead 27 July: 14,150 - 118 dead 28 July: 16,533 - 133 dead <— TODAY https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420177946422091776 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Chonburi Public Health Office has just announced they have 864 new cases and four more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (104), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (212), and Si Racha (300). The total cases so far is now 22,524 with 10,493 remaining in care #Thailand https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420170831699660804 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Admission of the horrendous failures............ "With 16,533 new infections & 133 new deaths reported 2day, Dept Public Health Minister says in next 2-3 weeks some "may unfortunately die @ home." 4 lack of access 2 hospital beds." https://twitter.com/PravitR/status/1420184223361638400 6 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 The number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia crossed 6.91 million, with 96,526 new cases reported on Tuesday – higher than Monday’s tally of 78,444. There were 2,824 more deaths, increasing from Monday’s 2,376 and taking total coronavirus deaths in Asean to 136,564 so far. https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40003840 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HampiK Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: Deaths and case numbers are moving upwards again. The question is are the numbers from Phetcahbun included or not. Guess we will have to wait until this afternoon to see the provincial breakdowns. Not buying the 56% of Bangkok's residents being vaccinated. Seems a little high to me with the numbers of vaccinations they are doing daily. Don't forget, In Thailand vaccinations 56% maybe means 56% had one shot. But yes I agree with you, that even if they count only first shot, then this sounds still like too high! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Thailand shooting past Indonesia in cases per capita https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand 8 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkk6060 Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 I believe the current upgrade in restrictions were suppose to end Aug. 2. Sadly, can't see how. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 The Channel 7 news is discussing the complete and utter chaos in the original Que lines at Bang Sue with so many people crammed in together at the start of the que. The people interviewed were grateful to being able to get vaccinated. Additionally they are talking about the App for making appointments for those 18 and above, but the caveat seems that it is geared towards Thais......why can they not roll out an app and registration for all people who live in Thailand regardless of nationality. This has all the trappings of a Christmas dinner served up to everyone except the help. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Banglamung orders temporary closure of two markets Banglamung – The Banglamung District Chief Wuttisak Sainghadachoe ordered the temporary closure of two markets in Banglamung for seven days starting earlier this week. https://thepattayanews.com/2021/07/28/banglamung-orders-temporary-closure-of-two-markets/ 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Phuket Tourism Experiment Risks Suspension as Covid Cases Surge A flareup in coronavirus cases in Phuket, Thailand’s first tourism hotspot to waive quarantine for vaccinated foreign visitors, is threatening to scuttle the experiment seen as a model for other tourism-reliant nations to reopen borders. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-27/phuket-tourism-experiment-risks-suspension-as-covid-cases-surge 6 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 6 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said: Admission of the horrendous failures............ "With 16,533 new infections & 133 new deaths reported 2day, Dept Public Health Minister says in next 2-3 weeks some "may unfortunately die @ home." 4 lack of access 2 hospital beds." https://twitter.com/PravitR/status/1420184223361638400 Who is the one that will accept the failure, surely not the PM as he has already blamed the public for the spread and stated just how well his handling went last year. No, you can not make this stuff up, it is the reality of what they have created by a dismal vaccine roll-out and horrible planning that they are sure to blame each province for. No one at the top will take responsibility except for those forced to do so who are at a lower level in Government and made to take the fall. The buck stops at the top and I mean the top PM. 15 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post champers Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Bangkok seems to be getting the lion's share of available vaccines. The rest of the nation, Phuket and Buriram excepted, can whistle. 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinsdale Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 This week may see for the first time 100,000 new infections in the community in a single wk. As it stands for weekly trends Thailand sits at number 11 just behind Malaysia at number 10. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TallGuyJohninBKK Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: Deaths and case numbers are moving upwards again. The question is are the numbers from Phetcahbun included or not. Guess we will have to wait until this afternoon to see the provincial breakdowns. Not buying the 56% of Bangkok's residents being vaccinated. Seems a little high to me with the numbers of vaccinations they are doing daily. I realized the other day, re the vaccinations rate, that they are using a VERY low 7.7 million population number for Bangkok.... hundreds of thousand below the 2010 Census, and even farther below the current population estimate for the province, which is in the 10 million neighborhood.... So that helps them look better.... Here's the latest Bangkok chart of theirs I've seen: https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/373181344300196/?type=3 But here's the 2010 Census number for Bangkok -- 8.3 million. And for 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangkok Edited July 28, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK 9 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SooKee Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 7 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: The Channel 7 news is discussing the complete and utter chaos in the original Que lines at Bang Sue with so many people crammed in together at the start of the que. The people interviewed were grateful to being able to get vaccinated. Additionally they are talking about the App for making appointments for those 18 and above, but the caveat seems that it is geared towards Thais......why can they not roll out an app and registration for all people who live in Thailand regardless of nationality. This has all the trappings of a Christmas dinner served up to everyone except the help. Given the amount of large spaces in Bangkok that are not in use, malls etc, that they cram everyone to Bang Sue is beyond belief really. Each day you only need a few asymptomatic people in amongst those crowds and it'll go through them like wildfire. 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post spidermike007 Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 Both the vaccination program and this entire administration continue to be a massive failure. A boil on the face of the nation, for all to see. Why don't they close these big factories? Pineapple plants, chicken processing, etc. If they can close countless small businesses, why not close the super clusters? Are they that transparent in their desire to continue protecting the super rich, at all costs? Is this not a national emergency? Have they no shame or dignity? 18 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riparian Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 19 minutes ago, HampiK said: Don't forget, In Thailand vaccinations 56% maybe means 56% had one shot. But yes I agree with you, that even if they count only first shot, then this sounds still like too high! More like 56% of the target 70% of the population as counted in the 2010 census. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 4 minutes ago, SooKee said: Given the amount of large spaces in Bangkok that are not in use, malls etc, that they cram everyone to Bang Sue is beyond belief really. Each day you only need a few asymptomatic people in amongst those crowds and it'll go through them like wildfire. Spaced out chairs for all from start to finish, moving from one chair to the other, not standing in queues where social distancing is impossible. A bit like musical chairs. That would solve the problem. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Loong Boon Mee Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 28 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said: After a one day pause, the COVID pandemic in Thailand rebounded with resounding force on Wednesday as the country reported a new record high 16,533 new cases and set its second highest daily deaths total with 133. It was the country’s fifth daily record high in cases among the past seven days. Wednesday’s 16,533 new cases marked a 2,383 case increase from the 14,150 one-day dip in cases reported Tuesday, as daily cases in Thailand have rocketed upward from the 10,000 range in mid-July. Wednesday’s 133 new deaths was surpassed only by the 141 fatalities reported on July 17. Wednesday’s new case count included 16,331 among the general public and 202 from Thailand’s prisons. Thailand has now totaled 543,361 COVID cases and 4,397 COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic in January 2020, though most of those have occurred just since this April. Wednesday’s large increase in cases suggests the government may have finally included in the national tally some or all of the more than 3,000 COVID cases found over the weekend at a Saha Farms chicken processing plant in Phetchabun province. But that won’t be confirmed one way or the other until later in the day. Now in the worst of a so-called third wave that began in April, Thailand’s COVID outbreak has spread lately from its original center in Bangkok and several adjoining provinces to the entire nation. All or almost all of Thailand’s 77 provinces lately have been reporting new COVID cases on a daily basis. Health experts said the rising COVID case and death tolls in Thailand have been driven by the highly contagious Delta (India) variant of the coronavirus that’s now become dominant in the country. Its toll has been worsened by Thailand’s lagging COVID vaccination program that has only fully vaccinated about 5 percent of the population after months of effort, partly due to limited supplies of government procured vaccines. The country’s health care system has been brought to the breaking point by the worsening pandemic. Thailand on Wednesday again reported a new record high for active COVID cases hospitalized (178,270), as well as new record highs for critical patients (4,325) and the share of those on ventilators (995). Total COVID hospitalizations have almost doubled in the past two-plus weeks, and the share of those in critical condition has almost doubled in the past month. Prior to a single day decline on Tuesday, Thailand's tally of critical condition COVID patients had risen to new daily records for the past 37 days in a row. In other developments: --More signs emerged of a Thai public health system being overrun by the current COVID pandemic with few to no available hospital beds, especially in Bangkok. The government-run Ramathibodi Hospital announced it will stop accepting new walk-in patients starting Aug. 1 because of COVID. Also, the director of the government’s Mongkut Wattana Hospital, repeatedly calling the current situation “a public disaster,” bluntly warned residents not to dump sick COVID patients there in hopes that they can be admitted. --The rising case counts and ill patients have left government officials scrambling to free up existing hospital beds and add new ones. On Tuesday, a government train carried some 135 COVID-positive residents from Bangkok back to their home provinces in the Northeast for isolation. Elsewhere, Bangkok officials said they were looking at converting sleeper train beds into temporary quarantine space for COVID patients showing no symptoms. --Across the country with 14,150 total new cases on Tuesday, 39 of Thailand’s 77 provinces, a new high, reported more than 100 new COVID cases each, led by Bangkok with 2,635 and Samut Sakhon with 1,092. Plus three other provinces came close to making the 100+ list, each reporting 100 new cases. --Bangkok province’s 2,635 new case count Tuesday rose slightly for the day, ending three days of declines, but remained well below the province’s July 10 record of 3,191 cases, as case growth was greater in outlying provinces. The government said 56 percent of Bangkok residents had received their first COVID vaccination shot as of July 25, but only 13 percent their full vaccination second shot. --For foreign nationals, the government’s Bang Sue Central Vaccination Center in Bangkok will continue to allow limited walk-in vaccinations for those age 75 and above living in Bangkok and five adjoining provinces at least through the end of the month. For more info, see the website https://www.thailandintervac.com/ --Foreign nationals age 60 and above who live in those same six provinces can still pre-register online for Bang Sue appointments. And, starting in early August, a government spokesman said vaccinations at Bang Sue will be expanded to foreign nationals under age 60, but offered no further specifics. Thank you for your daily summary, John. Much appreciated. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 17 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: Additionally they are talking about the App for making appointments for those 18 and above, but the caveat seems that it is geared towards Thais.... In their Monday EN news briefing, the government spokesman said the Bang Sue vaccinations program would be expanded to cover for the first time the under age 60 group for foreign nationals, presumably the same six BKK region provinces, starting in early August. That's going to be via some kind of pre-registration scheme. But they haven't said as yet what that's going to be or how it's going to work. Slim on the details for now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, anchadian said: Spaced out chairs for all from start to finish, moving from one chair to the other, not standing in queues where social distancing is impossible. A bit like musical chairs. That would solve the problem. From yesterday: https://twitter.com/ittipat_tv/status/1419869969362292738 The government says they're currently doing +-20,000 vaccinations per day there, vast majority being Thais, not foreigners. Edited July 28, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pattaya Spotter Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 27 minutes ago, anchadian said: Chonburi Public Health Office has just announced they have 864 new cases and four more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (104), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (212), and Si Racha (300). The total cases so far is now 22,524 with 10,493 remaining in care #Thailand https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420170831699660804 Down 3 cases from yesterday...things are looking up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 The first “Covid-Express” left #Bangkok yesterday taking #COVID19 patients with mild symptoms back to their home province in the lower region of Isaan. Onboard the train were 12 doctors and nurses. The patients were collected at each station and taken to hospital ( MTC.22.ubon) https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420192912135000064 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 4MyEgo Posted July 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2021 22 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said: why can they not roll out an app and registration for all people who live in Thailand regardless of nationality. Rule 1: Thai's 1st Rule 2: Everyone else Has always been that way and will be this way for a long time until someone can re-educate them......don't go there, that's like trying to convince North Korean Citizens that the world outside of North Korea is a better place. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchadian Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said: From yesterday: This is a photo from earlier in the day where bookings were not required. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted July 28, 2021 Share Posted July 28, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, anchadian said: This is a photo from earlier in the day where bookings were not required. Same in the afternoon yesterday from the looks of it: https://twitter.com/ittipat_tv/status/1419903540839936005 Via Google Translate: 1:10 p.m. Standing for 5 minutes is already a risk. This has to stand for more than 1-2-3 hours, still not clear. to solve the problem how overwhelming people Some people return to their homes during the lockdown period. Now back to vaccination. Edited July 28, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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