Thailand reports 23,418 new COVID-19 cases, 184 more deaths

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

Quiet day for vaccinations yesterday:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/385437163074614

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

New daily case count for Bangkok province passes the 5,000 mark for the first time, setting a new pandemic record high of 5,140.

 

Samut Prakan (1,936) and Samut Sakhon (1,847) also are approaching 2,000 new cases per day, followed by Chonburi (1,408).

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/385436239741373

 

Past five days for Bangkok:

 

Aug. 9 -- 3,114

Aug. 10 -- 4,226

Aug 11 -- 4,525

Aug 12 -- 4,854

Aug. 13 -- 5,140

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[ThailandRyan]

3 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Quiet day for vaccinations:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/385437163074614

 

 

So much for the 500k a day they need to be hitting.  Must mean that either the vaccines are running low, or because it was someone's birthday yesterday it was a public holiday and fewer were working

[anchadian]

Today there were 184 deaths in #Thailand

 

100 males & 84 females

7 foreigners died

Median age is 67 (12 years-105 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (71)

Deaths reported in 34 provinces

67% of those who died were older than 60 years old

0 died at home

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426056717909913604

A breakdown of the age groups of the people who were reported to have died from #COVID19 since 1st April 2021. A total of 7,032 people have died out of 834,326 people infected which is 0.84%. The biggest age groups are 70+ (12.48%), 60-69 (4.19%) and 50-59 (1.47%) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426059226883911680

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by anchadian

[anchadian]

Bangkok Hospital #Pattaya has announced a new policy. Regardless what you are getting done you have to take a covid test first before being admitted. This includes even for your caregiver if you have one.

 

https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1426058340866555908

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

So much for the 500k a day they need to be hitting.  Must mean that either the vaccines are running low, or because it was someone's birthday yesterday it was a public holiday and fewer were working

 

Hey, no rush... It's just a pandemic... ????

 

[buick]

here is the change in the 7 day avg, daily deaths for the last two one week periods:

 

july 31 to aug 6 is 132 to 168, an increase of 36 so 27% for the week

 

aug 6 to aug 12 is 168 to 182, an increase of 14 so 8% for the week

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/

Edited August 13, 2021 by buick

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, anchadian said:

Today there were 184 deaths in #Thailand

 

100 males & 84 females

7 foreigners died

Median age is 67 (12 years-105 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (71)

Deaths reported in 34 provinces

67% of those who died were older than 60 years old

0 died at home

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426056717909913604

A breakdown of the age groups of the people who were reported to have died from #COVID19 since 1st April 2021. A total of 7,032 people have died out of 834,326 people infected which is 0.84%. The biggest age groups are 70+ (12.48%), 60-69 (4.19%) and 50-59 (1.47%) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426059226883911680

 

Again we lost a youth, who at 12 years of age should have been living life and growing old.  Regardless if they had an underlying condition, Covid put the final nail in the coffin which is extremely sad.  Families loosing children and Children loosing both parents is becoming an occurrence here in Thailand.  Social services must also be at the breaking point as more folks are having it extremely rough with loosing jobs and also being infected.  Story on the news just a few ago was about a gentleman who had been released from the hospital to self isolate at home and use the medicines given.  He was so stressed and felt he was being left to die that he committed suicide by drowning himself in the local pond.

[anchadian]

2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Again we lost a youth, who at 12 years of age should have been living life and growing old.  Regardless if they had an underlying condition, Covid put the final nail in the coffin which is extremely sad.  Families loosing children and Children loosing both parents is becoming an occurrence here in Thailand.  Social services must also be at the breaking point as more folks are having it extremely rough with loosing jobs and also being infected.  Story on the news just a few ago was about a gentleman who had been released from the hospital to self isolate at home and use the medicines given.  He was so stressed and felt he was being left to die that he committed suicide by drowning himself in the local pond.

Yes, remember that. So sad.  

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Bangkok Hospital #Pattaya has announced a new policy. Regardless what you are getting done you have to take a covid test first before being admitted. This includes even for your caregiver if you have one.

 

https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1426058340866555908

Was wondering when and if that will become mandatory at all hospitals.  The GF just had to do that here in BKK to see her specialist doctor.  She tested on Wednesday for her appointment which is on Sunday, hopefully she gets the results back today or tomorrow.  Luckily the hospital picked up the cost.  I did not see if the above quoted link indicates if the hospital is doing the test for free as well in Pattaya. 

[anchadian]

Since 1st April, 185 pregnant women have been infected with #COVID19 and 29 have died. Only one of them had a record of being vaccinated with one jab #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426064004611416066

 

[anchadian]

The Thai Hotels Association is urging the government to come up with measures to promote domestic tourism, because it is unsure that the plan, earlier announced by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to reopen Thailand to foreign visitors by mid-October, will be achieved, as the country is battling its worst COVID-19 outbreak yet with new highs set each day.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/domestic-tourism-urged-to-be-promoted-as-backup-plan-to-overseas-arrivals/

[Bkk Brian]

14 minutes ago, buick said:

here is the change in the 7 day avg, daily deaths for the last two one week periods:

 

july 31 to aug 6 is 132 to 168, an increase of 36 so 27% for the week

 

aug 6 to aug 12 is 168 to 182, an increase of 14 so 8% for the week

 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/

This is yesterdays update from WHO Thailand.

 

"Community cases in Thailand have continued to increase daily, and continue to at more than three times the daily count of one month ago (chart below left). In the last week Bangkok daily cases have been increasing to yesterday’s total of 4,856 cases, with the proportion of cases in Bangkok increasing to nearly 22% (21.7%) of all cases.

 

Over the past week 183 new deaths were reported on average per day, a 17% increase from an average of 157 deaths per day reported in the previous week. While the daily count of deaths has steadily increased the rate of increase in deaths has been slowing down (31%, 27%, 17%) •The last seven days has seen a gradual reduction in active cases because on average more people are recovering and being senthome. With the number of people receiving care reducing from 213,910 seven days ago to 209,028 yesterday;"

 

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/searo/thailand/2021_08_12_eng-sitrep-196-covid19.pdf?sfvrsn=145bfa9e_3

[anchadian]

24 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Today there were 184 deaths in #Thailand

 

100 males & 84 females

7 foreigners died

Median age is 67 (12 years-105 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (71)

Deaths reported in 34 provinces

67% of those who died were older than 60 years old

0 died at home

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426056717909913604

A breakdown of the age groups of the people who were reported to have died from #COVID19 since 1st April 2021. A total of 7,032 people have died out of 834,326 people infected which is 0.84%. The biggest age groups are 70+ (12.48%), 60-69 (4.19%) and 50-59 (1.47%) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426059226883911680

 

Only 0.84% of people infected with #COVID19 have actually died which doesn’t seem so bad. But once you break it down to age groups then it becomes scarier for the elderly. For example, out of the 70+ age group that were infected, this mortality rate increases to 12.48% #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1426065141557207043

 

[2 is 1]

46 minutes ago, anchadian said:

#COVID19 #Thailand update on Friday:

 

23,418 new cases (+9 from abroad)

184 new deaths

212,179 patients in care

5,565 in ICU and 1,111 on ventilators

20,083 discharged from care

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1426055454182887424

 

Aha now they delete that box which tell how many test has made!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Antigen test kit positivity rate ticks up to 14.2% as of yesterday.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/385436239741373

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, 2 is 1 said:

Aha now they delete that box which tell how many test has made!

Its still there but on a different chart, tests still falling:

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Its still there but on a different chart, tests still falling:

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

If only 51,911 tests were conducted and then we have 23,418 cases (yes I know), then we have a very huge positivity rate.....truly ugly.

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

If only 51,911 tests were conducted and then we have 23,418 cases (yes I know), then we have a very huge positivity rate.....truly ugly.

Crazy right, when the country is going through its worst ever outbreak the tests decline instead of all expert advice to increase

[buick]

13 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

While the daily count of deaths has steadily increased the rate of increase in deaths has been slowing down (31%, 27%, 17%)

thank you.  that helps me avoid doing the math (which i'm not great at !!).   there is a positive amongst the carnage.  it isn't easy to find but it is there.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

41 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Today there were 184 deaths in #Thailand

 

100 males & 84 females

7 foreigners died

 

Of the foreigner deaths today, five were from Myanmar, and one each from Laos and India.

 

23 or 12% of the day's COVID fatalities were neither elderly nor had chronic diseases.

 

Apart from Bangkok with 71 new deaths, there were double digit deaths in Samut Sakhon (16) and Samut Prakan (12).

 

Two of the deaths were pregnant women, one from Chainat and the other from Udon Thani

Edited August 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Up up and away...

 

Interestingly, for the past day, self referred cases (17,642 in blue) were down, but outreach testing cases (5,379 in yellow) were up.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/385501253068205/?type=3

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/385501579734839/?type=3

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[smedly]

6 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Crazy right, when the country is going through its worst ever outbreak the tests decline instead of all expert advice to increase

someone will be along in a moment to tell us how good things are and improving by the day - I find it incredible that people can be so blind and in so much denial

[anchadian]

 

Without the lockdown, the rate of new Covid cases could have peaked at 65,000 per day by September, acc to government data. The strict controls have cut transmission by an estimated 20%, meaning the peak is likely to be 40,000 per day sometime next month.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1426072079934246916

If transmissions had been reduced by 25%, the country would not have seen rates of 20,000 per day until later in September.

Edited August 13, 2021 by anchadian

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Bangkok province recap for the day, with pandemic record high 5,140 new COVID cases:

 

1.66% case fatality rate for Bangkok province now with a total of 3,377 COVID deaths.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/385501646401499/?type=3

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[rabas]

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Crazy right, when the country is going through its worst ever outbreak the tests decline instead of all expert advice to increase

Agree it looks crazy hard to explain. But the image says number of tests looking for disease (cases).  This might not include other tests used during the treatment of patients. The number of patients is also shooting up and could explain the lower number of actual PCR tests available for new cases.

 

What is totally incomprehensible is why, after 1.5 years, they have not increased their total PCR lab capacity, reported at max 80K. It's not hard to do or expensive, You can buy PCR machines on Ebay and some people do their own home PCR tests for other things. Maybe Anutin needs to authorize the expansion.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

20 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

Without the lockdown, the rate of new Covid cases could have peaked at 65,000 per day by September, acc to government data. The strict controls have cut transmission by an estimated 20%, meaning the peak is likely to be 40,000 per day sometime next month.

 

20 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1426072079934246916

If transmissions had been reduced by 25%, the country would not have seen rates of 20,000 per day until later in September.

 

 

They also produced a similar chart showing the daily number of COVID deaths could pass 500 (the blue line) by the same time next month, depending on how fast they can advance vaccinations of the elderly. The 147 COVID deaths marked on the chart below was the total reported yesterday, Aug. 12. Today's total, not on the chart below, was 184.

 

Without the current COVID restrictions and curfew measures, the chart below says daily COVID deaths could have approached 900 per day by next month.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/385502339734763/?type=3

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[2 is 1]

19 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

Without the lockdown, the rate of new Covid cases could have peaked at 65,000 per day by September, acc to government data. The strict controls have cut transmission by an estimated 20%, meaning the peak is likely to be 40,000 per day sometime next month.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1426072079934246916

If transmissions had been reduced by 25%, the country would not have seen rates of 20,000 per day until later in September.

Sadly its going to happen dosent matter what they do! Never going to see those hidden numbers ! How can see 60k case if test 51k! If 40% infected dosent even know they have covid its scary that they not do mass test in puplic!

[smedly]

26 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

Without the lockdown, the rate of new Covid cases could have peaked at 65,000 per day by September, acc to government data. The strict controls have cut transmission by an estimated 20%, meaning the peak is likely to be 40,000 per day sometime next month.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1426072079934246916

If transmissions had been reduced by 25%, the country would not have seen rates of 20,000 per day until later in September.

yes but the reality is it will still infect just as many people but will take longer to do it, all an effective lockdown does is slow the spread over a longer period of time - unless there is an intervention like an effective vaccine

[anchadian]

Pilot plant to make tobacco-based vaccine launched in Bangkok

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Friday inspected a pilot production facility for a plant-based Covid-19 vaccine at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

The plant-based vaccine project is a collaboration between Chulalongkorn University and Baiya Phytopharm Ltd. It uses a subunit protein extracted from tobacco leaves to mimic Covid-19 and trigger an immune response in recipients.

 

The project launched in February 2020 and has since produced successful results in rats and monkeys.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40004626

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by anchadian