COVID-19: Thailand reports 22,086 new coronavirus cases, 217 more deaths

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Bangkok province recap for the day:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/386099473008383/?type=3

 

Bangkok daily case totals from the past week, matching the graphic chart shown above:

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/386099473008383/?type=3

 

 

Edited August 14, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

The pcr tests continue their daily decline, now down to 49,865 

If they are predicting 45,000 infections found per day, then if they dont count home tests, and pcr numbers reducing, near 100% of tests will be positive !

[anchadian]

Thanpuying Boonruen Choonhavan, the widow of former prime minister Chatichai, died early this morning (Saturday) of a COVID-19 related illness

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiPBSWorld/status/1426426433933516800

 

[anchadian]

7.2 million Covid vaccines were administered in Bangkok since February 28, including 5.8 million first doses. Of the total first doses in the capital, 4.2 million were AstraZeneca, 1.1 million were Sinovac, 509,382 were Sinopharm and 3,705 were Pfizer.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1426408063578173441

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

From that article:

 

The government probably did not expect this – after all, it had vaccinated 70 per cent of the island’s inhabitants with Chinese-made Sinovac in a rush and hoped for herd immunity."

 

 

More vaccine misinfo either by the government or by the news media being lazy or careless.

 

Phuket province never has made 70% fully vaccinated, according to the central government's data, though they did make 70+% one shot vaccinations -- which probably contributes to the spread of cases there.

 

Lately, in their various communications, the government and/or the Thai news media have been increasingly blurring the line between the very different realities of "fully vaccinated" meaning both shots vs. what they often call just "vaccinated," which here has increasingly come to mean a single shot.

 

The provinces breakdown info below is as of August 8, showing only a 59% fully vaccinated rate (the green bar segment) for Phuket as of that date.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/382956553322675/?type=3

Edited August 14, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[sucit]

5 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

More vaccine misinfo either by the government or by the news media being lazy or careless.

 

Phuket province never has made 70% fully vaccinated, according to the central government's data, though they did make 70+% one shot vaccinations -- which probably contributes to the spread of cases there.

 

Lately, in their various communications, the government and/or the news media have been increasingly blurring the line between the very different realities of "fully vaccinated" meaning both shots vs. what they often call just "vaccinated," which here has come to mean a single shot.

 

The provinces breakdown info below is as of August 8, showing only a 59% fully vaccinated rate (the green bar segment) for Phuket as of that date.

 

 

 

That’s great if those stats are correct. What is says to me is open up. 

[anchadian]

4 hours ago, anchadian said:

Most cases today are again in #Bangkok (5,093), followed by Samut Sakhon (1,819), Samut Prakan (1,598), Chonburi (1,258), Nonthaburi (870), Nakhon Pathom (724), Saraburi (686), Ubon (397), and Ayutthaya (379).

 

* Numbers include inmates #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426355890840498178

 

The correct number for Bangkok infections yesterday is 5,088 and not as stated in this infographic.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

A tale of two countries with basically comparable populations:

 

Thailand little vaccinated, the U.K. well vaccinated:

 

Thailand -- 22,086 new cases and 217 new deaths

U.K. -- 32,700 new cases, 100 new deaths

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/386099246341739/?type=3

 

[ThailandRyan]

20 minutes ago, sucit said:

That’s great if those stats are correct. What is says to me is open up. 

Open up...to what?..oh you mean you want the Government to open up and tell the truth about unreported cases and deaths with more to come...got it and thanks.

[garygooner]

Japan around 20k cases now a day and yet no real lockdown at all. Schools, stores, restaurants and bars still open. 

And BTW my local barbershop in BK continues to cut hair. They just turned the revolving light off outside the place. TIT. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Government update today says the vaccination rates for Bangkok province are 75.97% of residents have received one shot and 16.41% have been fully vaccinated with two shots.

 

Although, the government is basing those rates on a province population total of 7.7 million, which is some 600,000 residents less than Bangkok's official 2010 Census figure of 8.3 million, and far less than the current estimated Bangkok population of about 10 million.

 

But at least, they're correctly not counting the third dose, re-do booster shots being given to medical staff as counting toward the population vaccination rates.

 

PS -  the second green chart below also shows that more than 67,000 doses have been administered thus far of the U.S. donated Pfizer vaccine, with the vast majority of 61,650 thus far going as booster shots for Thai medical staff.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/386099836341680/?type=3

 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anchadian]

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

Total: 22,083

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10158199539382050

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

National COVID cases chart update for the day:

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/386099179675079/?type=3

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

26 minutes ago, garygooner said:

Japan around 20k cases now a day and yet no real lockdown at all. Schools, stores, restaurants and bars still open. 

And BTW my local barbershop in BK continues to cut hair. They just turned the revolving light off outside the place. TIT. 

 

Re Japan, stay tuned... They're paying the price for their policies:

 

Japan Confronts Lockdown Taboo With Virus at ‘Disaster Level’

 

August 13, 2021

 

As Japan struggles with its worst-yet wave of coronavirus cases, calls for the kind of mandatory lockdown seen in other parts of the world have emerged in a country that has so far shunned such harsh measures.

 

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike warned Friday the situation in the capital was at disaster level as cases jumped to a record of 5,773, more than quadrupling in just three weeks. Earlier, virus experts called the situation “out of control” in analysis presented to the metropolitan government. Regional governors and a senior member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party have called on the central government to consider clamping down harder.

 

Those calls have so far been rejected by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who faces a general election in the next three months, with his support at record lows. It is unclear how voters would react to a lockdown, given the existing blow to businesses from the spread of the delta variant and the light-touch restrictions currently in place.

 

(more)

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/japan-confronts-lockdown-taboo-with-virus-at-disaster-level

 

As for your barbershop, that's probably a good example of why Thailand's COVID case counts and deaths have been spiraling upward for the past month, despite the government's supposed restrictions -- where enforcement is often illusory.

 

[TheFishman1]

How many new cases in Chiang Mai Thailand

[Macrohistory]

7 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

How many new cases in Chiang Mai Thailand

 

Already jumped the shark.

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

A monk dressed in a PPE suit sits exhausted in the crematorium at Wat Kanok in Nonthaburi. On that day, according to the temple’s Facebook page, they cremated nine people who had died from #COVID19. This is one of a handful of temples in the province that accepts Covid bodies.

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1426445391621328897

 

[anchadian]

Woman arrested in Bangkok for allegedly trying to smuggle migrants back to Myanmar

 

42 migrants from Myanmar had been arrested in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Khlong Wan district while trying to cross the border at the checkpoint. Sixteen of them later tested positive for Covid-19. #Myanmar #migrants #ThailandNews #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40004660

 

 

 

 

[brewsterbudgen]

1 hour ago, garygooner said:

Japan around 20k cases now a day and yet no real lockdown at all. Schools, stores, restaurants and bars still open. 

And BTW my local barbershop in BK continues to cut hair. They just turned the revolving light off outside the place. TIT. 

Yes, Japan does seem to be handling it better than Thailand, although I guess that's not altogether surprising.

[Caldera]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The news comes as Thailand could see coronavirus cases double to 45,000 per day by early next month, even with current lockdown measures in place

As we're actually already well past this, it will only depend on the number of tests that they'll facilitate by then.

 

With the current number of PCR tests (daily average, about 50,000 tests), we won't be able to see much more than we're seeing now.

 

The extraordinarily high positivity rates, which are a direct result of inadequate testing, render the official numbers meaningless. Let's see if they can be guesstimated retroactively, by looking at excess deaths (and conducting antibody tests, if they're willing to do that which seems questionable).

[DavisH]

8 minutes ago, Caldera said:

As we're actually already well past this, it will only depend on the number of tests that they'll facilitate by then.

 

With the current number of PCR tests (daily average, about 50,000 tests), we won't be able to see much more than we're seeing now.

 

The extraordinarily high positivity rates, which are a direct result of inadequate testing, render the official numbers meaningless. Let's see if they can be guesstimated retroactively, by looking at excess deaths (and conducting antibody tests, if they're willing to do that which seems questionable).

The positivity rate is meaningless as the entire population is not being sampled. We thus cannot determine just how widespread infection is. There is no surprise that a 50% positivity rate is occuring here - that just indicates that the people beign sampled are most likely infected as they are presenting with symptoms. And proactive sampling is of people in high risk areas or industries. If you want to lower the positivity rate, just go and sample in rural areas, especially up north - areas where people are less likely to have been exposed to the virus. Case rates don't realyl matter now - what matters is the vaccination rate, hospitalisation rate, and death rate. Eventually everyone is going to be exposed to the virus. 

[JonnyF]

1 hour ago, garygooner said:

Japan around 20k cases now a day and yet no real lockdown at all. Schools, stores, restaurants and bars still open. 

And BTW my local barbershop in BK continues to cut hair. They just turned the revolving light off outside the place. TIT. 

I saw the same when I went for a little drive today to pick up a few things and cure the boredom after 3 days in the condo.

 

It's amazing how busy it is. Loads of traffic around sukhumvit, lots of pedestrians and construction workers milling about. One well known soi near Asoke had at least 5 massage places with the doors open (not traditional massage) with 1 or 2 girls blatently sat outside in their usual short skirts and tight tops, not even pretending the place was closed.

 

With this type if thing and the protests ongoing it's hard to see how Delta is just going to fizzle out in BKK.

 

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The total number of first and second shot doses reflected on the chart below, 635,089, (excluding the third shot booster doses for medical staff), is the second highest daily vaccination total of first and second shots thus far.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/386098466341817

 

 

 

683,832 total vaccine doses given yesterday. The highest daily total yet.

And the 635,089 first and second shot doses (excluding medical worker booster doses) is the second highest daily total, from the record that I've kept...

 

But still, a long way away from the 1 million doses per day that Public Health Minister Anutin promised back in late July:

 

"Anutin said that from August, the Public Health Ministry expects to procure 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine per month on average and aims to provide 1 million jabs per day.

 

Published : July 28, 2021"

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40003868

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

40 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Yes, Japan does seem to be handling it better than Thailand, although I guess that's not altogether surprising.

 

Note quite... see above:

 

Japan Confronts Lockdown Taboo With Virus at ‘Disaster Level’

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/japan-confronts-lockdown-taboo-with-virus-at-disaster-level

 

[hotchilli]

7 hours ago, Macrohistory said:

She didn’t give a reason for the drop in the vaccine’s effectiveness...

Probably like everything else from China, it only lasts a couple of months.

[Bkk Brian]

38 minutes ago, DavisH said:

The positivity rate is meaningless as the entire population is not being sampled. We thus cannot determine just how widespread infection is. There is no surprise that a 50% positivity rate is occuring here - that just indicates that the people beign sampled are most likely infected as they are presenting with symptoms. And proactive sampling is of people in high risk areas or industries. If you want to lower the positivity rate, just go and sample in rural areas, especially up north - areas where people are less likely to have been exposed to the virus. Case rates don't realyl matter now - what matters is the vaccination rate, hospitalisation rate, and death rate. Eventually everyone is going to be exposed to the virus. 

Regardless of the distribution of active case finding or hospital walk ins, the positivity rate gives a very good barometer for the real situation, although i do accept they are skewed as you mentioned. Used correctly it informs decision making for levels of further testing, pandemic measures, hospital facilities, etc and policy. Case rates indeed matter.

 

Deaths and hospitalizations matter too but they are the reactive signals.

Edited August 14, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[DrJack54]

18 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

683,832 total vaccine doses given yesterday. The highest daily total yet.

If I hadn't read it on Aseannow I wouldn't believe it.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Government posting photos of the Army pitching in with COVID relief AKA bringing happiness to the people.

 

Kinda looks like some scenes from a pandemic runs amok story...  Oh wait.... it IS!!!

 

(no caption or location info on the original photos)

 

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/386157336335930/?type=3

 

 

 

[metisdead]

Some posts that were wandering off topic have been removed. 

[brewsterbudgen]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Note quite... see above:

 

Japan Confronts Lockdown Taboo With Virus at ‘Disaster Level’

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-13/japan-confronts-lockdown-taboo-with-virus-at-disaster-level

 

Yes, but the point is day to day life for most Japanese people has not been significantly harmed due to a lockdown.