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Thailand on Wednesday (August 18) reported 20,515 new COVID-19 cases and 312 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.


 

● 20,267 new infections

● 248 prison / prison infections
 

● 22,682 recoveries

 
Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 98,957 with 8,285 deaths. (Total infections since April 1: 940,094)
 
The news comes as Thailand will purchase an additional 12 million doses of Sinovac's coronavirus vaccine to try to expedite its rollout, a senior official said on Tuesday, despite concerns over its efficacy against the Delta variant of COVID-19.

 

Thailand's strategy had planned to use mainly locally produced AstraZeneca vaccines but with supply short of the government's target, Sinovac shots are being used in a mix-and-match approach to inoculate the population faster.

 

The mass vaccination campaign started in June but the rollout is being hastened by Thailand's worst coronavirus wave so far, which is challenging Bangkok's healthcare system at a time when just 7.3% of the population has been fully vaccinated.

 

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2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

This is what it would look like if they were included. Blue are the official community cases (not including prisons). Green is the community cases + positive rapid tests.

 

All data from the chart is from official source here https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

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Closing in on 30k cases when combined in the next week possibly, of course that's my take on it.

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3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

This is what it would look like if they were included. Blue are the official community cases (not including prisons). Green is the community cases + positive rapid tests.

 

All data from the chart is from official source here https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

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Many people said it before they wont use the rapid test data as it would make them look bad. Just like they exclude prison. They seem to pull all kind of stunts to stay lower then they actually are. Probably to make sure they wont be seen to dangerous and make travel harder for tourists to Phuket sandbox. (going back and into quarantine at home country is no fun)

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3 minutes ago, Blumpie said:

This isn't a must read for me anymore - the cases could be 100k per day but we will never truly know what they are - the country is too.... different?  Nice way of putting it.  ????  

I'd even go by the death toll but how many are going and not being counted?  Nobody really  knows what is going on.  

The statistics are fairly meaningless, especially as no-one seems to believe them, but the remarks and comments are interesting.

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Some more positive signs going forwards despite the increasing death rate. 
New cases down and vaccination daily dose rate indicate 70% of population could be double dosed within 6 months. 
New Sinovac purchase will support that target. 
 

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