Thailand reports 17,345 new COVID-19 cases and 117 deaths

[anchadian]

The daily updated map for #Thailand shows every province has at least one #COVID19 case. Two provinces (green) have 1-10 cases, 20 provinces (yellow) have 11-50 cases, 16 provinces (orange) have 51-100 cases and 39 provinces (red) have more than 100 cases.

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420984545524862977

 

[anchadian]

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

DAY 46: 304,243

DAY 47: 352,879

DAY 48: 128,026 <— Saturday

DAY 49: 90,934 <— Sunday

DAY 50: 138,892 <— public holiday

DAY 51: 327,389

DAY 52: 164,270 <— public holiday

DAY 53: 420,148

 

TOTAL: 12,910,956 doses

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420985213220360192

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

MFA spokeswoman promises today that MFA is planning some kind of (yet another!!!) new website to enable vaccine registrations for foreign nationals once eligibility is expanded to ages 18 to 60 sometime in early August.

 

The appointments will be prioritized for high risk groups first, including Bangkok and adjoining five provinces. Continues to say foreign nationals should able to register at hospitals listed on Intervac website, even though most hospitals there aren't currently open for new registrations.

 

Also vaguely says there will be vaccinations for foreign nationals this weekend or extending to Monday at McCormick Hospital in Chiang Mai....

 

 

Screenshot of government televised news briefing

Edited July 30, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anchadian]

There are now 518 factory clusters in 49 provinces & a total of 36,861 workers infected. The top 5 provinces with the most number of Covid patients from factories include Phetchaburi (4,464), Phetchabun (3,487), Prachuap Khiri Khan (2,538), Samut Sakhon (2,496) & Songkhla (2,209)

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1420987608956506117

[riparian]

15 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Here’s information on the Petchabun chicken factory. The cases were confirmed over two days, 23rd and 24th July. 3 nearby villages were also locked down. The positive cases were detained in a field hospital at the factory. I guess that is bubble and seal. No mention of second test.

 

I can look up the daily case numbers for Phetchabun, but it will be laborious. Maybe you can take my word for it that they haven’t been above 100 per day, or check it yourself.

 

I’m fairly comfortable with saying those 3k cases aren’t in the official daily numbers.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/phetchabun-chicken-processing-plant-sees-over-3000-infections

 

 

 

Easy for me:

 

Phetchabun daily cases (copied from daily graphics)

22/7    60
23/7    99
24/7    66
25/7    73
26/7    132
27/7    104
28/7    107
29/7    75

 

 

[anchadian]

PM Prayut downplays severity of Thailand's COVID-19 situation, claims other countries have it worse

 

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday (Jul 29) downplayed the COVID-19 situation Thailand, while claiming that other nations are dealing with higher caseloads.

 

In a special interview held at the Government House, he said: “If we contemplate the transmission in our country, it may seem shocking, given the daily fatalities. I want you to try paying attention to these numbers in our neighbouring countries and others for a change.”

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-covid-19-prayut-interview-shocking-transmission-15336466

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 minutes ago, riparian said:

 

Easy for me:

 

Phetchabun daily cases (copied from daily graphics)

22/7    60
23/7    99
24/7    66
25/7    73
26/7    132
27/7    104
28/7    107
29/7    75

 

 

 

Those look very much like regular routine community cases, and not any kind of bulk cluster outbreak of 3,000+ cases from one weekend at a single factory.

 

[Bkk Brian]

54 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

It’s long been rumored that those who test positive with anti gen tests, aren’t then retested with a PCR test.

 

I have seen two indications of proof.

 

1. 3k cases at the Petchabun chicken factory were identified by way of antigen test. I think that is accepted fact, I don’t have a link to hand, but I don’t think it’s disputed. Since discovery of those positive cases, Petchabun has not had a day of cases in excess of 100 cases. So what happened to the 3k cases?

 

2. There was an announcement a few days ago about the government employing “squads” to carry out proactive testing in Bangkok areas with high infection rates. There were details of what was being done and included in those details was an official statement that those being found positive were being given paracetamol and that funny herb thing and told to isolate at home. At the time I immediately realized that there was no mention of positive cases being sent for a second test. I took it as explicit confirmation of the rumor.

 

if I can find links for the above, I will post them later. I personally take it as proof of the earlier rumors, but others may feel it’s not enough evidence.

 

Edit. Currently I cannot find a link to confirm my second point. In fact, I have found links where BMA states that positive antigen cases will get a second PCR test. I am either confused or need to look beyond just the head guy stating what is supposed to happen.

 

second edit. This is a link where second tests are not mentioned. There is a similar article in a publication that cannot be copied here. 

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/200-mobile-teams-actively-screening-communities-in-bangkok-for-covid-19/

Have to agree with you here, I'm very suspicious the cases found positive for covid with a rapid test are not being sent for a pcr test unless they are seriously sick and need to be admitted to hospital. 

 

Regards the Petchabun chicken factory, they have certainly not been added to official figures yet, so adds weight to this assumption.

 

Here's the chart for last 7 days, Petchabun Province is number 48

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

Edited July 30, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[anchadian]

11 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

MFA spokeswoman promises today that MFA is planning some kind of new website to enable vaccine registrations for foreign nationals once eligibility is expanded to ages 18 to 60 sometime in early August.

 

During 19- 28 July 2021, there were 2,633 foreign residents 60 years above registered for vaccination at Central Vaccination Center. Consular Affairs is preparing a pre-registration website for other age groups of foreign residents to be launched.

https://twitter.com/NatapanuN/status/1420721338596007943

 

[rabas]

15 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Here’s information on the Petchabun chicken factory. The cases were confirmed over two days, 23rd and 24th July. 3 nearby villages were also locked down. The positive cases were detained in a field hospital at the factory. I guess that is bubble and seal. No mention of second test.

 

I can look up the daily case numbers for Phetchabun, but it will be laborious. Maybe you can take my word for it that they haven’t been above 100 per day, or check it yourself.

 

I’m fairly comfortable with saying those 3k cases aren’t in the official daily numbers.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/phetchabun-chicken-processing-plant-sees-over-3000-infections

From BP testing was over 3 days but I am happy to concede the point.

 

However, I have drifted from my original point that I cannot see Thailand's professional medical establishment faking data. What the government does with numbers in their totals and announcements is a different issue. I do think some people have trouble separating the wrongdoing of the government from good deeds of Thailand's medical establishment. 

 

[DrJack54]

5 minutes ago, anchadian said:

PM Prayut downplays severity of Thailand's COVID-19 situation, claims other countries have it worse

 

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday (Jul 29) downplayed the COVID-19 situation Thailand, while claiming that other nations are dealing with higher caseloads.

 

In a special interview held at the Government House, he said: “If we contemplate the transmission in our country, it may seem shocking, given the daily fatalities. I want you to try paying attention to these numbers in our neighbouring countries and others for a change.”

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-covid-19-prayut-interview-shocking-transmission-15336466

A picture paints a thousand words.

Sometimes one word is enough.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

At a time Thailand's COVID new case numbers are at/near record highs, government announces today that their televised COVID news briefings will be cut back further to only Mondays and Thursdays starting next week. They previously had been seven days a week, and later cut back to three days a week.

 

Spokeswoman adds that the MoPH will continue to post updated COVID documents and statistics, presumably daily, on their various social media platforms.

 

PS - Should have added, of course, no explanation given of WHY!

 

Edited July 30, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anchadian]

1 minute ago, DrJack54 said:

A picture paints a thousand words.

Sometimes one word is enough.

Of course, that's why I included it,

[anchadian]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

At a time Thailand's COVID new case numbers are at/near record highs, government announces today that their televised COVID news briefings will be cut back further to only Mondays and Thursdays starting next week. They previously had been seven days a week, and later cut back to three days a week.

 

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420989903727251457

 

[wensiensheng]

4 minutes ago, rabas said:

From BP testing was over 3 days but I am happy to concede the point.

 

However, I have drifted from my original point that I cannot see Thailand's professional medical establishment faking data. What the government does with numbers in their totals and announcements is a different issue. I do think some people have trouble separating the wrongdoing of the government from good deeds of Thailand's medical establishment. 

 

Fair enough, it’s just that your original point was in response to my post and I didn’t make any assertion that medical professionals are faking data.

 

in fact, I would argue the opposite. Medical professionals just do their job. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

At a time Thailand's COVID new case numbers are at/near record highs, government announces today that their televised COVID news briefings will be cut back further to only Mondays and Thursdays starting next week. They previously had been seven days a week, and later cut back to three days a week.

 

Spokeswoman adds that the MoPH will continue to post updated COVID documents and statistics, presumably daily, on their various social media platforms.

 

 

Presumably this is part of their latest effort to fight back against "fake news"...   ????

 

[anchadian]

However, not everyone is happy, as many American ex-pats complain on social media that they feel they are not being taken care of by their home country.

 

https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1420990409275150339

 

[anchadian]

New Covid-19 cases soar as Covid-19 patients of all color codes outnumber hospital beds

 

Dr Somsak Akasilp, director-general of the Department of Medical Services, said COVID-19 patients of all color codes outnumbered hospital beds. He asked people to stay home as much as they could in the next 2-4 weeks to reduce the number of new COVID-19 patients.

 

https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-749125

Edited July 30, 2021 by anchadian

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Just now, anchadian said:

However, not everyone is happy, as many American ex-pats complain on social media that they feel they are not being taken care of by their home country.

 

https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1420990409275150339

 

 

Now that the Pfizer doses have finally been delivered, it seems as though the U.S. govt. and the Embassy here are washing their hands of the whole thing, including their own citizens!  ????

 

[wensiensheng]

8 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

At a time Thailand's COVID new case numbers are at/near record highs, government announces today that their televised COVID news briefings will be cut back further to only Mondays and Thursdays starting next week. They previously had been seven days a week, and later cut back to three days a week.

 

Spokeswoman adds that the MoPH will continue to post updated COVID documents and statistics, presumably daily, on their various social media platforms.

 

 

 

 

Seems like they are hunkering down. Probably realize they can’t fight the rising tide and that more or less anything they say to put a positive spin on things, makes them look silly. And they don’t want to say negative things.

 

Also a tacit acknowledgement that things are bad and likely to worsen. If they had good news they would be announcing it every 5 minutes, just like the Moderna purchase that got replayed over and over.

Edited July 30, 2021 by wensiensheng

[Kadilo]

2 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Maybe it does. I made the original comment 2 hours ago.  Time to move on.

You seem to be the whipping boy for the doomsters. .
 

Whether you’re an optimist or a realist is neither here or there, as long as it works for you. 

[Bkk Brian]

22 minutes ago, anchadian said:

There are now 518 factory clusters in 49 provinces & a total of 36,861 workers infected. The top 5 provinces with the most number of Covid patients from factories include Phetchaburi (4,464), Phetchabun (3,487), Prachuap Khiri Khan (2,538), Samut Sakhon (2,496) & Songkhla (2,209)

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1420987608956506117

Here again we have Phetchabun (3,487) listed as a factory cluster but its not in the official covid positive count..............

[wensiensheng]

19 minutes ago, anchadian said:

PM Prayut downplays severity of Thailand's COVID-19 situation, claims other countries have it worse

 

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday (Jul 29) downplayed the COVID-19 situation Thailand, while claiming that other nations are dealing with higher caseloads.

 

In a special interview held at the Government House, he said: “If we contemplate the transmission in our country, it may seem shocking, given the daily fatalities. I want you to try paying attention to these numbers in our neighbouring countries and others for a change.”

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-covid-19-prayut-interview-shocking-transmission-15336466

Anyone else find the waffling towards the end a little embarrassing?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

10 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Seems like they are hunkering down. Probably realize they can’t fight the rising tide and that more or less anything they say to put a positive spin on things, makes them look silly. And they don’t want to say negative things.

 

Also a tacit acknowledgement that things are bad and likely to worsen. If they had good news they would be announcing it every 5 minutes, just like the Moderna purchase that got replayed over and over.

 

I would agree. I think it just shows the local COVID writing is on the wall, and so they're hauling out a whole series of things to try to tamp down public knowledge and awareness of what's really going on. And take stepped up legal measures to go after the media or members of the public who go too far in reporting what's going on, especially if any of it involves blaming or criticizing those responsible for the mess.

 

It also MAY well call into question the reliability and accuracy of whatever case and fatality statistic reporting we get in the days and weeks ahead, given the rise of home isolation cases in lieu of unavailable hospitalizations, and their vague and unclear handling of cluster cases detected with antigen tests (that don't seem to ever make it into the national tallies)

 

 

Edited July 30, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anchadian]

TIMELINE: #Pattaya and Banglamung informs residents who visited places in relation to the most recent Chonburi confirmed Covid –19 cases

 

List of places here:

https://tpnnational.com/2021/07/30/timeline-pattaya-and-banglamung-informs-residents-who-visited-places-in-relation-to-most-recent-chonburi-confirmed-covid-19-cases/

 

[edwinchester]

16 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

At a time Thailand's COVID new case numbers are at/near record highs, government announces today that their televised COVID news briefings will be cut back further to only Mondays and Thursdays starting next week. They previously had been seven days a week, and later cut back to three days a week.

 

 

Soon be down to 5 minutes once a week on Sunday morning squeezed between Power Rangers and Doraemon

[dinsdale]

3 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

You seem to be the whipping boy for the doomsters. .
 

Whether you’re an optimist or a realist is neither here or there, as long as it works for you. 

Thank you for self correcting yourself and calling doomsters realists. As for being optomistic I would really like to be but the ones who could give that optimism is the government and unfortunately the are complete and utter morons.

[anchadian]

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Friday

Total: 17,337

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10158171458722050

[ThailandRyan]

28 minutes ago, anchadian said:

PM Prayut downplays severity of Thailand's COVID-19 situation, claims other countries have it worse

 

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday (Jul 29) downplayed the COVID-19 situation Thailand, while claiming that other nations are dealing with higher caseloads.

 

In a special interview held at the Government House, he said: “If we contemplate the transmission in our country, it may seem shocking, given the daily fatalities. I want you to try paying attention to these numbers in our neighbouring countries and others for a change.”

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-covid-19-prayut-interview-shocking-transmission-15336466

Ah Thailnd the country under the dome where the surrounding countries explosion of covid cases will never criss the mystical boundaries formed by amulets and prayer chains.  Is this guy for real. Why compare Thailand at all right now. Is this why you have not done more because it's worse elsewhere what a moronic statement.

[wensiensheng]

41 minutes ago, anchadian said:

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

DAY 46: 304,243

DAY 47: 352,879

DAY 48: 128,026 <— Saturday

DAY 49: 90,934 <— Sunday

DAY 50: 138,892 <— public holiday

DAY 51: 327,389

DAY 52: 164,270 <— public holiday

DAY 53: 420,148

 

TOTAL: 12,910,956 doses

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1420985213220360192

 

One of the highest daily vaccination numbers yesterday. If they can keep up the increase, maybe they can get to a reasonable run rate.

 

or, it may be an artifact from yesterday’s low public holiday figure. 555

 

lets hope it’s the former.