COVID-19: Thailand reports 17,491 coronavirus cases and 22,134 recoveries

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Thailand on Monday (August 23) reported 17,491 new COVID-19 cases and 242 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.

 

● 17,093 new infections

● 398 prison / prison infections

 

● 22,134 recoveries

 

Monday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,066,786 with 9,562 deaths. (Total infections since April 1: 1,037,923)

 

The news comes as more than a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Thailand's tourism industry is now struggling to survive and trying to shift from mass tourism to attracting more quality visitors.

 

The country received some 40 million international visitors in 2019, and the number came down to only 6.7 million in 2020.

 

For 2021, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) predicted that even in the best-case scenario, there will only be around 1-2 million foreign tourists visiting the country. Some believed that this figure is still considered too optimistic given the current vaccination rate and rising number of daily cases in the country.

 

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https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1429606262509957127

 

Edited August 23, 2021 by anchadian

[dinsdale]

So when do we see the 7,000 postive antigen tests from 2 days ago. This is a very high number that must show in daily figures if included. So far they obviously have not been included.

[anchadian]

Full recaps later but seeing improvement from both national and local numbers in terms of Covid-19. Recoveries outpacing new cases on both. First time in almost a month Chonburi is below a thousand new cases. #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1429614262519959555

 

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 953 new cases today and 7 more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (200), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (189), and Si Racha (307). There are now 19,554 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1429595214318952448

 

Edited August 23, 2021 by anchadian

[Pravda]

I don't believe it 

[Marvin Hagler]

Here we go…the fix is in.

[anchadian]

MONDAY: 17,491 confirmed cases, 901 probable cases from ATK testing and 242 deaths. Out of 195,454 patients, 35,058 are in hospital, 78,156 in hospitel and 77,289 in home/community isolation. 5,290 in a serious condition (+51) and 1,094 on ventilators (-23) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1429609151898943492

 

[Bkk Brian]

Clear downward trend forming on official positive pcr cases from the high on the 13th August. Those on ventilators have dropped to 1,094, down from 1,117 yesterday.

 

PCR tests, total of 17,491 official new infections, with 398 of those from prison and 17,093 from community. Total of 50,859 pcr lab tests yesterday. Covid deaths last 24 hours is 242.

 

Rapid tests positive cases from rapid tests 901. 

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 21st Aug) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases and rapid tests from daily official announcements.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

[cyril sneer]

2 minutes ago, Pravda said:

I don't believe it 

no one does

 

but the sooner the fake number drops the sooner bars can open again

[anchadian]

The number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia crossed 9.31 million, with 81,948 new cases reported on Sunday, lower than Saturday’s tally of 91,399. #Asean #COVID19 #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40005100

[anchadian]

 

Most cases today are in #Bangkok (3,497), followed by Samut Sakhon (1,396), Samut Prakan (1,296), Chonburi (1,025), Nonthaburi (781), Ratchaburi (566), Nakhon Pathom (413) and Ayutthaya (406).

 

* Numbers include inmates

#COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1429610519393030145

 

[darksidedog]

I want to believe this is the start of a downward trend, but I am highly skeptical that we are seeing the real truth. Time will tell.

[anchadian]

Prime Minister calls for unity as he promises the kingdom is set to make a sustainable recovery

 

A Suan Dusit economic opinion poll on Sunday appears to show a more resilient population with 32.31% of people saying they could survive for between 6 months and two years if economic restrictions were not lifted. It comes as the data is also showing Thailand with a remarkably low death rate from the COVID-19 virus compared to other countries at 0.88% despite having a low level of the population vaccinated.

 

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2021/08/22/pm-calls-for-unity-promises-a-recovery/

[mtls2005]

Trend looks pretty good, obviously shelter-in-place works.

 

But what are the guidelines/thresholds for lifting restrictions?

 

And I'm not certain the recent vaccination numbers (five days over 500,000, with two days over 600,000) will hold?

 

So it feels like there's nothing to prevent another wave?

 

 

[DrJack54]

9 minutes ago, anchadian said:

The number of Covid-19 cases in Southeast Asia crossed 9.31 million, with 81,948 new cases reported on Sunday, lower than Saturday’s tally of 91,399. #Asean #COVID19 #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40005100

I realize numbers for Vietnam jump around a bit. What's with the 687 deaths!

Did they accumulate the weekend numbers? What's going on there.

[Mr Meeseeks]

4 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Prime Minister calls for unity as he promises the kingdom is set to make a sustainable recovery

 

A Suan Dusit economic opinion poll on Sunday appears to show a more resilient population with 32.31% of people saying they could survive for between 6 months and two years if economic restrictions were not lifted. It comes as the data is also showing Thailand with a remarkably low death rate from the COVID-19 virus compared to other countries at 0.88% despite having a low level of the population vaccinated.

 

https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2021/08/22/pm-calls-for-unity-promises-a-recovery/

They are caught between a rock and a hard place.

 

Keep the lockdowns to control COVID-19 and keep case numbers and deaths to a manageable level, with the added benefit of being able to crack down hard on any political protests, or...

 

Fudge the numbers, open up again and let the protests begin in earnest.

 

Either way, they are Donald Ducked, politically and more importantly, economically.

[GroveHillWanderer]

23 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

So when do we see the 7,000 postive antigen tests from 2 days ago. This is a very high number that must show in daily figures if included. So far they obviously have not been included.

They shouldn't be included if you want to keep the data of consistent quality. Rapid antigen test kits are notoriously unreliable and need a follow-up PCR test to confirm.

 

Or at least if you're going to include them, they should be listed separately. But then I suppose you'd have to remove them if the PCR test comes back negative - so again you'd be having problems with data consistency, numbers going up and down etc.

 

Best sticking to one standard of measurement, if you ask me.

[Kadilo]

Due to the fantastic ongoing vaccination efforts we are now rapidly heading towards 30% of the population receiving those first jab and at current rates predicted that 70% of the population could be double jabbed by beginning of January. 

 

https://covidvax.live/en/location/tha

 

[Marvin Hagler]

30 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Clear downward trend forming on official positive pcr cases from the high on the 13th August. Those on ventilators have dropped to 1,094, down from 1,117 yesterday.

 

PCR tests, total of 17,491 official new infections, with 398 of those from prison and 17,093 from community. Total of 50,859 pcr lab tests yesterday. Covid deaths last 24 hours is 242.

 

Rapid tests positive cases from rapid tests 901. 

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 21st Aug) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases and rapid tests from daily official announcements.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

From 7,000 positive ATK cases to 900 in just 2 days. A miracle! Or BS.

[BangkokReady]

33 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand's tourism industry is now struggling to survive and trying to shift from mass tourism to attracting more quality visitors.

Why have 10 tourists spending $1,000 each, when you can have 1 quality tourist spending $10,000 on their own?!!  Now if we could just find someone willing to pend $10,000 in Thailand...

[dinsdale]

2 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

They shouldn't be included if you want to keep the data of consistent quality. Rapid antigen test kits are notoriously unreliable and need a follow-up PCR test to confirm.

 

Or at least if you're going to include them, they should be listed separately. But then I suppose you'd have to remove them if the PCR test comes back negative - so again you'd be having problems with data consistency, numbers going up and down etc.

 

Best sticking to one standard of measurement, if you ask me.

Even if there were 20% false positives that still leaves 5,600 positives. 

[mistral53]

36 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

no one does

 

but the sooner the fake number drops the sooner bars can open again

.......and we should believe you, but not the published numbers........ right, makes sense 

[koratkarlos]

Trying now to register for Moderna at Bangkok Hospital, Chiang Mai.  Getting consistent database errors.  Their server is swamped.  The nightmare continues and will continue as Thailand is going to reopen soon.   I wish I could trust the apparent reduction in cases but with the continual decline in testing numbers, segregation of data for political purposes, and general lack of transparency who knows what the truth really is.   

[Walker88]

10 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Due to the fantastic ongoing vaccination efforts we are now rapidly heading towards 30% of the population receiving those first jab and at current rates predicted that 70% of the population could be double jabbed by beginning of January. 

 

https://covidvax.live/en/location/tha

 

I believe it's "due to the gloriously fantastic vaccination efforts, we are now moving at twice the speed light towards 300% of population....."

 

When one is auditioning for a spot on the North Korean Govt Media Team, no hyperbole is too much.

[BestB]

Is it me or something happened?

 

days after Prayut made a statement new infection rate started to drop on daily basis while recoveries remained roughly the same . 
 

it is as if Covid got the memo 

[robblok]

14 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

They shouldn't be included if you want to keep the data of consistent quality. Rapid antigen test kits are notoriously unreliable and need a follow-up PCR test to confirm.

 

Or at least if you're going to include them, they should be listed separately. But then I suppose you'd have to remove them if the PCR test comes back negative - so again you'd be having problems with data consistency, numbers going up and down etc.

 

Best sticking to one standard of measurement, if you ask me.

In a perfect world where they would confirm a rapid test by a pcr test yes. But his is Thailand and they don't so you will have to count them. That is the problem in this country they want the number to look good. Anyway i keep looking at the amount of people on ventilators and icu that gives a far better number. But because death rates lag behind we can't really use them but if they are the same in a week then someone is telling lies.

 

Lets hope for once that the Thai government is not fudging the numbers and lying it would be a miracle but a welcome one. Nobody wants this to last forever. I want my freedom back.

 

Its just that i dont trust any Thai government anymore after.. Bangkok wont flood there wont be flood and my house flooded (something they could have een comming with small planes and the like). So even if they have information to the contrary they only release it if they can't deny it.

[koratkarlos]

And one reason that the demand today is so high in Chiang Mai right now for the Moderna vaccine is that all the Thai people I know in my neighborhood will not take Sinovac.  And if you don't take Sinovac you are locked out of the WallofChiangMai website.  And then you have nothing.  So in reality it looks like next year until a sufficient supply of vaccine is available here.   It would be so nice to see actual vaccine orders, shipments, SB production numbers and a real plan to vaccinate Thailand.  Right now is a spontaneous exercise of missed opportunity.

[dinsdale]

6 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

.......and we should believe you, but not the published numbers........ right, makes sense 

They only started disclosing prison infections when they were outed. They took over government by force. They rigged an election. They tried to silence people from telling the truth. Yep. Definitely a believable an transparent bunch of people.

[Marvin Hagler]

15 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Today’s numbers seem to back up one of the reports over the weekend comparing Thailands Delta outbreak with that of India. 
 

 

When I first read about the Thai government comparing their curve to India’s  last week I just knew what would happen…the order has been made “make our curve look like India’s”….and so shall it be.

 

My money says we will see 16K inflections tomorrow…although given how brazen these guys are I could see $15K…basically whatever it takes to make the Thai curve match the Indian curve.

Edited August 23, 2021 by Marvin Hagler

[buick]

deaths is the only reliable number to use when trying to figure out if things are getting better.  still getting some higher than average daily death numbers but the peak could be forming right now.  we need to stay out of the 300 range and get back below 200 in the next week or two.  that'll show a peak on the charts.

 

unfortunately, there will likely be another surge but hopefully the death numbers in that one will be mitigated by the uptake in vaccinations.