Thailand reports record high of 17,669 new COVID-19 cases and 165 deaths

[anchadian]

 

THAILAND SETS UP HOSPITAL AT AIRPORT; CAMBODIA CLOSES BORDER

 

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Health authorities in Thailand raced to set up a large field hospital in a cargo building at one of Bangkok’s airports on Thursday as the country reported record numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.

 

Other field hospitals are already in use in the capital after it ran out of hospital facilities for thousands of infected residents.

 

Workers rushed to finish the 1,800-bed hospital at Don Mueang International Airport, where beds made from cardboard box materials were laid out with mattresses and pillows. It is to be ready for patients in two weeks.

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2021/07/29/thailand-sets-up-hospital-cambodia-closes-border/

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by anchadian

[Phuketshrew]

There are 1,000's of hotel beds laying idle yet they can't use them. There must be a mint to be made out of cardboard beds and bedding supplies.

[ThailandRyan]

15 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

THAILAND SETS UP HOSPITAL AT AIRPORT; CAMBODIA CLOSES BORDER

 

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Health authorities in Thailand raced to set up a large field hospital in a cargo building at one of Bangkok’s airports on Thursday as the country reported record numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.

 

Other field hospitals are already in use in the capital after it ran out of hospital facilities for thousands of infected residents.

 

Workers rushed to finish the 1,800-bed hospital at Don Mueang International Airport, where beds made from cardboard box materials were laid out with mattresses and pillows. It is to be ready for patients in two weeks.

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1420685971582951426

 

2 weeks is a little late unfortunately. Always one step behind these guys are.

[dinsdale]

18 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

THAILAND SETS UP HOSPITAL AT AIRPORT; CAMBODIA CLOSES BORDER

 

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Health authorities in Thailand raced to set up a large field hospital in a cargo building at one of Bangkok’s airports on Thursday as the country reported record numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.

 

Other field hospitals are already in use in the capital after it ran out of hospital facilities for thousands of infected residents.

 

Workers rushed to finish the 1,800-bed hospital at Don Mueang International Airport, where beds made from cardboard box materials were laid out with mattresses and pillows. It is to be ready for patients in two weeks.

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1420685971582951426

 

Hospitals full. Field hospitals full. People dying at home. Patients in ICU and on ventilators rapidly going up. Deaths accelerating. Daily infections to very soon surpass 20,000. Public panic over vaccination. Vaccination rollout a complete disaster. Less than 6% fully vaccinated mostly with a vaccine that allows breakthrough leading to possible death. Put this all together and one can only come to one conclusion. It will all be ok in time to open up Thailand in Ocober.

Edited July 29, 2021 by dinsdale

[wensiensheng]

I haven’t followed Cambodia’s Covid situation much. A few sensible policies mentioned in this article though

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/cambodia-imposes-covid-19-lockdowns-along-thai-border-over-delta-15325332

Edited July 29, 2021 by wensiensheng

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Thailand on Thursday reported nearly twice as many new COVID deaths for the day as the United Kingdom (165 vs. 91) even though the two countries have comparable population sizes -- a sign of a country with substantial COVID vaccinations vs. a sign of a country largely without.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/375279877423676/?type=3

 

[anchadian]

The vaccine registration by mobile phone operators doesn’t include foreigners because I’m told you need a 13-digit ID card number. But now I’m told it also doesn’t include naturalized Thais even if they have a Thai ID card and passport. Apparently you have to be born Thai [1/2]

I’ve always believed that if I got Thai citizenship I would enjoy the same rights and benefits as a person born Thai. But apparently that’s not true. The person who contacted me gave up his citizenship to become Thai. But now he feels like a 2nd class citizen #Thailand [2/2]

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1420698168673521666

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Daily report for Bangkok province, a slight decline in new cases to 3,963 from yesterday's record high level, but still the province's second highest daily case count of the pandemic. And 58 new deaths and a COVID case fatality rate of 1.57 percent.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/375279617423702/?type=3

 

[FarFlungFalang]

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Hospital walk ins again dominate the stats, new high of 14,782 while only 2,609 were found via pro active testing throughout the whole of Thailand. 

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/290764.pdf

The number of artifacts seems to be exponential now.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Bangkok EMS keeps regularly posting public photos of their crews out providing services... Generally without any descriptive caption information of what's going on in the photos or where. So I can't say what's actually going on here, except, it doesn't look very good.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/374779070807090/?type=3

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

36 minutes ago, Phuketshrew said:

There are 1,000's of hotel beds laying idle yet they can't use them. There must be a mint to be made out of cardboard beds and bedding supplies.

 

I'm assuming you mean to move the hotel beds to other field hospital venues and use them there. If so, it's probably logically easier to use the cardboard types, since they can be easily moved and quickly set up en masse without taking up a lot of transport space. Whereas the permanent hotel beds are gonna be pretty hefty and take a lot more manpower and space to transport.

 

If you mean use the hotel beds IN the hotel rooms where they stand, that has the disadvantage of having patients divided up into just one or two per room with many rooms, making monitoring and staffing pretty difficult for any large numbers of patients.  Whereas in the auditorium type field hospital settings, everything's more open and easier to monitor...

 

Just guessing...

 

[blackcab]

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[ChipButty]

My Brother in law just tested positive about an hour ago 5-30 pm he lives out at Nontaburi but works in BKK my wife is a bit upset and has been trying all afternoon to find a hospital bed we have found one but they cant take him in until Saturday cant get an ambulance so his friend will take him on the back of a truck                                       

[anchadian]

46 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Bangkok EMS keeps regularly posting public photos of their crews out providing services... Generally without any descriptive caption information of what's going on in the photos or where. So I can't say what's actually going on here, except, it doesn't look very good.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/374779070807090/?type=3

 

Possibly in the same location as I posted earlier:
https://www.thaienquirer.com/30537/opinion-khun-prayut-youve-broken-every-promise-and-failed-your-people/

[wensiensheng]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Thailand on Thursday reported nearly twice as many new COVID deaths for the day as the United Kingdom (165 vs. 91) even though the two countries have comparable population sizes -- a sign of a country with substantial COVID vaccinations vs. a sign of a country largely without.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/375279877423676/?type=3

 

The UK also has basically no restrictions.

[dan42]

6 hours ago, khunpa said:

Although, I feel sorry for all Thais suffering during these hards times, other countries should not help Thailand out with free vaccines.

 

Thailand is only in this situation due to mismanagement of their funds. 
 

If they have money to spend on submarines and huge railway projects, they can also afford vaccines and foreign consultants. So let them pay!!

 

This is the only way they learn.

"Help" doesn't mean "free" vaccines

[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Daily report for Bangkok province, a slight decline in new cases to 3,963 from yesterday's record high level, but still the province's second highest daily case count of the pandemic. And 58 new deaths and a COVID case fatality rate of 1.57 percent.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/375279617423702/?type=3

 

If the infection rate is rising that might indicate the testing numbers are static for Bangkok.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

23 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Possibly in the same location as I posted earlier:
https://www.thaienquirer.com/30537/opinion-khun-prayut-youve-broken-every-promise-and-failed-your-people/

 

Not the same location/person on the ground. If you notice, in the EMS photos I posted, there's a white section of the curb painted right in front of where the guy is laying out. In the Enquirer photo, there's no white paint on the curb there.  Plus their photo has two different street sign poles next to that guy, whereas the EMS photo has none.

 

 

[bkk6060]

34 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

My Brother in law just tested positive about an hour ago 5-30 pm he lives out at Nontaburi but works in BKK my wife is a bit upset and has been trying all afternoon to find a hospital bed we have found one but they cant take him in until Saturday cant get an ambulance so his friend will take him on the back of a truck                                       

Lucky he is going to get a hospital bed.

[onthedarkside]

A flame post and ensuing bickering has been removed.

 

[Danderman123]

3 hours ago, AnotherFarang8 said:

Half-truth. By the time Israel’s vaccination jabs developed antibodies (around March), many people had already been sick and recovered and acquired natural immunity (some were jabbed on top of that without checks if this is necessary). Now that there is a new wave, people still maintain this immunity, both natural and from vaccination. Sure vaccination does help but the narrative today is only vaccination is the answer, do it to everyone, whether that person already has antibodies or not. For agenda and profit.

 

For the same reason by the time Thailand has jabbed a significant number of people and they develop antibodies, most will have caught and recovered with their natural immunity, nothing to do with vaccinations. This wave will ebb away around September’ish. Mother Nature lol.

Those previously infected last year have little immunity to the Delta variant, so your premise is invalid.

[anchadian]

11 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Not the same location/person on the ground. If you notice, in the EMS photos I posted, there's a white section of the curb painted right in front of where the guy is laying out. In the Enquirer photo, there's no white paint on the curb there.  Plus their photo has two different street sign poles next to that guy, whereas the EMS photo has none.

 

 

Yes, I see the difference now with the photo I posted.  For sure a different location.

 

This is now becoming a daily occurence with bodies lining the roads and sois. I would guess most are homeless.  Catching Covid-19 with no one to turn to.  Says it all really.

[HiSoLowSoNoSo]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

The vaccine registration by mobile phone operators doesn’t include foreigners because I’m told you need a 13-digit ID card number. But now I’m told it also doesn’t include naturalized Thais even if they have a Thai ID card and passport. Apparently you have to be born Thai [1/2]

I’ve always believed that if I got Thai citizenship I would enjoy the same rights and benefits as a person born Thai. But apparently that’s not true. The person who contacted me gave up his citizenship to become Thai. But now he feels like a 2nd class citizen #Thailand [2/2]

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1420698168673521666

 

They treat farangs like this and at the same time they beg us for vaccine. 

[Danderman123]

I’m seeing these on Facebook today. This is an antibody home test. It can determine whether you had Covid in the last 6 months or so.

 

It cannot determine if you are infected now.

 

Even if you were infected 6 months ago, you probably have little or no immunity against the Delta variant.

 

So, these are basically useless.

 

[FarFlungFalang]

I think these 2 graphics from ourworldindata kind of put Thailands testing efforts into perspective and shows how the Delta variant works with 2 different testing regimes.

 

 

 

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand?country=~THA

 

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing#how-many-tests-are-performed-each-day

Edited July 29, 2021 by onthedarkside
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[wensiensheng]

Further restrictions are going to be announced in Phuket.

 

My daughters Muay Thai gym says they have to close from tomorrow. A bar down the road says they have to close for 7 days from 30th. Restaurants have to close by 9pm. Thought the last one was in place already.

 

anyway, sketchy details but this is what I’ve been told in the last hour. No doubt all will be revealed shortly.

[anchadian]

Phuket Sandbox on two-week ‘watch’

 

PHUKET: The Phuket Sandbox scheme will continue for at least two more weeks while officials monitor the fallout from the rise in COVID-19 infections across the island, Dr Khajonsak Kaewjarat, Deputy Director of the Department of Disease Control (DDC), has confirmed.

 

“From the evaluation under three criteria, Phuket Sandbox can continue, but we will spend the next two weeks monitoring to see whether Phuket is still able to control the number of new infections,” Dr Khajonsak explained after a meeting with Phuket officials today (July 29). 

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-sandbox-on-two-week-watch-80856.php

[bangon04]

11 hours ago, anchadian said:

The number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia crossed 7 million, with 98,928 new cases reported on Wednesday – higher than Tuesday’s tally of 96,526. There were 2,564 more deaths, decreasing from Tuesday’s 2,824 and taking total coronavirus deaths in Asean to 139,127.

 

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40003884

unfortunately, transparency in statistics often depends on a (relatively) free press, and many of these countries are not above suspicion....

[anchadian]

25 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Further restrictions are going to be announced in Phuket.

 

My daughters Muay Thai gym says they have to close from tomorrow. A bar down the road says they have to close for 7 days from 30th. Restaurants have to close by 9pm. Thought the last one was in place already.

 

anyway, sketchy details but this is what I’ve been told in the last hour. No doubt all will be revealed shortly.

Phuket is imposing tight travel restrictions from Aug 3-16, closing some public venues from July 30-Aug 16, and restricting migrant labor movement from July 30-Aug 12.

https://twitter.com/8td/status/1420731946938748929

 

BREAKING: Phuket goes into partial lockdown. Apart from a few exceptions, no-one is allowed to enter Phuket by land, sea or air from 3rd to 16th August. People arriving internationally via the #PhuketSandbox aren’t affected. They are also allowed to leave #Thailand

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420734069080420352

Further details only in the Thai language ATM
https://www.facebook.com/phuketinfocenter

 

Edited July 29, 2021 by anchadian

[MrJ2U]

12 hours ago, robblok said:

Yesterday evening slight fever, headache nose full and sniffing no energy at all even skipped my training. I was worried a bit that this might be a prelude to more. Thankfully after going to bed early i feel good again.

 

I was actually worried while normally I don't care if i have a day like that it can happen. This puts people on edge too. 

Yes, everyone is a little on edge.

Glad you're feeling better.