BANGKOK (NNT) - The Rural Doctors Society reports that COVID-19 infection rates in Bangkok have fallen over the past four days.

 

According to a study by rural doctors, 7,227 people were found to be infected among 69,115 people tested. This third update on their study produced a figure of 10.5%, less than the previous update at 16.1%.

 

The Rural Doctors Society chairman Supat Hasuwannakit said 20 teams had found more than 7,000 people tested positive, from 51,000 people tested in crowded communities in Bangkok, after two rounds of mass testing last month.

 

The active case finding has a target to test 250,000 people between 4 - 10 August, as well as provide COVID-19 vaccines to the elderly and those with chronic diseases. Those who test positive will be undergo RT-PCR tests to confirm the result. They will later receive green chiretta or favipiravir and be treated in home isolation.

 

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Sure it is...

That could be a definite maybe (decreasing numbers) but let's hope it comes to pass.... 

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The Urban Doctors Society reports that COVID-19 infection rates in Isaan have fallen over the past four days.

Has anyone seen the MOPH's infographic about the number of tests over the past two weeks?

Nonsense. Things are getting out of control so they stopped testing and let people die at home. A few person I know is waiting at home with no help at all. 

Of coarse it's decreasing and does so every time a convoy of busses full of +ve cases arrive into the rice paddies of Isaan.

A big pat on the back for the Covid Czar and his crony Anuten = morons.

they have been so inept at testing it would not be unusual for many of those now being tested to have already had the virus 

 

If they had an interest in finding out the true state of infection in Bangkok they would also be testing people to see if they have already had it.

 

Also many people have left Bangkok and carried the virus across the country 

 

I don't see anything positive in this statement at all - Thailand is not just Bangkok - some seem to think it is when it comes to covid

Perhaps Bangkok has reached som kind of ( temporary) peak, but I fear it hasn't nearly begun in the provinces. 

16 minutes ago, shady86 said:

Nonsense. Things are getting out of control so they stopped testing and let people die at home. A few person I know is waiting at home with no help at all. 

 

24 of the reported 54 deaths reported today for Bangkok province were deaths at home, not in hospitals.

 

69,115 tested and 7,227 are tested positive.

 

Something tells me this infection are going nowhere.

That is some crazy high % of those tested that return positive.

 

55 minutes ago, timendres said:

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The Urban Doctors Society reports that COVID-19 infection rates in Isaan have fallen over the past four days.

My wife was just saying that the local village health care workers have a good handle on any returnees to the villages now and they have a well established process on dealing with them.

 

Processing begins before returnees arrive to the village then depending on the individual situation the returnees are either allowed to return to their home for 14 day quarantine or if they've been directly exposed (husband positive, wife not sure yet for example) they are kept in a designated area for 14 days with testing every few days. If a returnee is positive when they arrive they are kept in another designated area to be looked after by one of the local 'doctors.' These designated holding areas watched around the clock.

 

Very impressive system. The numbers of those kept in the designated areas are going down now and I haven't heard of any local infections caused by a returnee to our group of villages. It does feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel for this wave now if we could only get some of the vaccines here.

Rubbish.

More idiots and sadly is yet another example of the state of Thai ability to think through complex problems. 

 

In light of such a high positivity rate, how could these dunces possibly be confident without a MASSIVE aggressive testing campaign?

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2 hours ago, KeeTua said:

My wife was just saying that the local village health care workers have a good handle on any returnees to the villages now and they have a well established process on dealing with them.

 

Processing begins before returnees arrive to the village then depending on the individual situation the returnees are either allowed to return to their home for 14 day quarantine or if they've been directly exposed (husband positive, wife not sure yet for example) they are kept in a designated area for 14 days with testing every few days. If a returnee is positive when they arrive they are kept in another designated area to be looked after by one of the local 'doctors.' These designated holding areas watched around the clock.

 

Very impressive system. The numbers of those kept in the designated areas are going down now and I haven't heard of any local infections caused by a returnee to our group of villages. It does feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel for this wave now if we could only get some of the vaccines here.

No offense intended at all, but my Thai wife also shares much of what we call village wisdom with me. It usually turns out to be nonsense, just like rural nonsense in western countries. 

 

I really doubt they have a handle on this at all. And, anyway, what they might be getting right in one village, they will be getting wrong in at least at many and probably more. 

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3 hours ago, shady86 said:

Nonsense. Things are getting out of control so they stopped testing and let people die at home. A few person I know is waiting at home with no help at all. 

True. Many of my neighbours have been coughing for weeks: untested and unvaccinated. I have Asthma, and cannot get a date for jabs as I'm under 60, but without medical certificate... Sent the hospital a reply: "Will bring my certificate after I get Covid and start coughing..."

yes sure...... the country must open on October is more reasonable to lower the numbers.,,, See we have it under control... Very difficult in Thailand to get an appointment with Mor Prom under 60... Or are in Bangkok only over 60 and sick people living??

 

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COVID-19 Infection Rate in Bangkok Is Decreasing

Lolz! That's almost as good as "we're closing in on a ~70% vaccination rate." ????

9 hours ago, shady86 said:

Nonsense. Things are getting out of control so they stopped testing and let people die at home. A few person I know is waiting at home with no help at all. 

There is a scenario where it falls quickly but it's only something that shows up after the fact.

 

It can run out of enough previously uninfected hosts to infect, the numbers don't reflect that right now, but then again - they didn't reflect that in India either - the subsequent sero survey did show that a massive percentage of the population in some Indian areas were infected although they didn't know it at the time.

 

In fact I read that 67% of indians had antibodies to COVID yet only a tiny fraction of this 67% were tested positive for infection.

 

Source on the percentage : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/21/covid-19-antibodies-detected-in-67-of-indias-population

 

 

Running out of tests or everybody already infected ? 

Says TAT..

Troll post removed. 

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Running out of tests or everybody already infected ? 

We just don't know much about this Delta variant. In the UK it peaked than dropped down very fast. So is the same thing going to happen here ?

Just to remind you that it's called PROPAGANDA (information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view)

6 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

We just don't know much about this Delta variant. In the UK it peaked than dropped down very fast. So is the same thing going to happen here ?

The UK is so far ahead of Thailand in numbers of vaccinations that it is out of sight. 

4 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

We just don't know much about this Delta variant. In the UK it peaked than dropped down very fast. So is the same thing going to happen here ?

Schools closing for the summer break was the thought behind that. The fall did not go as far as hoped though and we may be back into a rising infection phase... cancelling restrictions had it's impact, and even the European Footy Finals.

The only statistic necessary now is the number of tests. If the number goes up, more infections are reported. If the number goes down, less infections reported, yay, the wave has peaked.

After all the testing, hospitalisations, quarantines, shutting everything down, and targeted vaccinations one would hope they would start to drop at some point.

I just hope the rest of the country had been paying attention and don't do the same as Bangkok did in the early stages.. ie bu**er -all !

4 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

The only statistic necessary now is the number of tests. If the number goes up, more infections are reported. If the number goes down, less infections reported, yay, the wave has peaked.

But not a time to take their eye off the game and presume it's all over.