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

[sapson]

Antigen tests will be encouraged and PCR tests made very difficult to obtain, the antigen positives wont be included in daily figures ..... which will decline and Pinocchio will declare himself the master of Thailands amazing Covid recovery and the doors will be thrown open to all in October.!

[Olmate]

14 minutes ago, Blumpie said:

 Thailand will not be open in October.  If it is, I will eat my hat on tic tok (or whatever these kids are on these days) and post it for you all to see.  

Suggest an Akubra , at least they’re made from rabbit skin !

[anchadian]

Wat Dang in Samut Sakhon had to demolish the crematorium and build a new one due to overuse. Not every temple is equipped to cremate #COVID19 victims and as this one was cremating 5-6 bodies a day the 22 year-old crematorium couldn’t cope https://matichon.co.th/region/news_2900057… #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1429646369757691909

[ThailandRyan]

20 minutes ago, Blumpie said:

 Thailand will not be open in October.  If it is, I will eat my hat on tic tok (or whatever these kids are on these days) and post it for you all to see.  

What flavored sauce do you need for flavoring...just in case...

[mancub]

1 hour ago, BestB said:

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 

I used to call him Napoleon {small man syndrome}, but now see him as more of a Canute.

[anchadian]

Death rates underline importance of vaccination as government aims for November target for red zones

 

The Thai government is setting itself a November target for heard immunity through vaccination and infection in red areas across the country, a Ministry of Public Health source told Thai Enquirer on Monday.

 

According to the source, the government understands that lockdown measures will only mitigate the pandemic but will not be sufficient to end the spread of the disease or the increasing death rates.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/31546/death-rates-underline-importance-of-vaccination-as-government-aims-for-november-target-for-red-zones/

[brewsterbudgen]

44 minutes ago, Scrotobike said:

I think this is a correct downward trend in the reported PCR tests which only mean there are less positive PCR results - not less Covid Delta in Thailand.

Absolutely. Covid and future variants will be around for the foreseeable future.

[Eric Loh]

30 minutes ago, Scrotobike said:

Not al deaths will be recorded - imagine staying at home after a ATK test - a death, a quick funeral - no reporting this as a covid death. No process to report it. Possibly why Thailand has such a low death rate per infection. 

 

This is not hiding deaths (not a government conspiracy) just how it is.

You do know that not reporting a death is a criminal offense and a death certificate is mandatory.

[Bkk Brian]

New thread.....

 

Leading Thai doctor says the Covid stats can't be trusted

Dr Thira Woratanarat went on his personal Facebook page to suggest that the figures for Covid-19 infections and deaths do not reflect reality.

The Chula medical sciences guru said it made no sense that 250-500,000 cases took 27 days and 500,000 to a milllion took less - only 25 days

He was skeptical that any peaks had been reached despite some saying they had.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1228411-leading-thai-doctor-says-the-covid-stats-cant-be-trusted/

 

Edited August 23, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[anchadian]

Sinovac effective against Covid-19, Chinese Embassy insists

 

The Chinese Embassy in Bangkok took to Facebook on Sunday to reiterate that the Sinovac vaccine is effective against the raging coronavirus.

 

In a Facebook post, it also said 25.55 million doses of Sinovac have been delivered to Thailand by the Chinese government since February, with the latest lot of one million doses being delivered on August 21.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40005119

[ThailandRyan]

12 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

You do know that not reporting a death is a criminal offense and a death certificate is mandatory.

I have never seen a death certificate given to my Thai family in all the years I have been here. The local village headman with a local police office recorded the death and that's the end of it. Now if they died in the hospital then that's a different story then if dying at home like my grandfather, grandmother, aunts, and uncles, did surrounded by family.

Edited August 23, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[blackcab]

Off topic posts and replies to them have been removed.

[DLock]

Wow, what are the odds of Thailand and Malaysia having the exact same number of new infections, and only 1 apart on deaths.

 

Split decision and Thailand has officially overtaken Malaysia (on a straight absolute count) by 1.

 

2 hours ago, anchadian said:

 

[retsdon]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

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

The only problem is that 'quality visitors' visit quality destinations. And Thailand is not, and never will be, in that category.

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

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

That ol chestnut eh,  if  in doubt  roll  it  out

[dinsdale]

16 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Sinovac effective against Covid-19, Chinese Embassy insists

 

The Chinese Embassy in Bangkok took to Facebook on Sunday to reiterate that the Sinovac vaccine is effective against the raging coronavirus.

 

In a Facebook post, it also said 25.55 million doses of Sinovac have been delivered to Thailand by the Chinese government since February, with the latest lot of one million doses being delivered on August 21.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40005119

Also very effective indeed for filling certain pockets.

[anchadian]

Prof Dr Prasit Watanapa, dean of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital at Mahidol University, said unless there is a big new cluster of COVID-19 patients in mid-September, infections should gradually fall.

@TNAMCOT

 

https://twitter.com/TNAMCOTEnglish/status/1429661101654888454

 

[Nismooo]

47 minutes ago, Blumpie said:

 Thailand will not be open in October.  

Since they been doing the EXACT opposite of what in my opinion should have been done ever since the Samut Sakhon outbreak in dec last year, then yes…

 

They will obviously open up in Oct…

[Scrotobike]

23 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

You do know that not reporting a death is a criminal offense and a death certificate is mandatory.

I did not state no death certificate just no way of including the death in the Covid statistics. 

Sorry to have confused you

 

 

[Scrotobike]

1 minute ago, Nismooo said:

Since they been doing the EXACT opposite of what in my opinion should have been done ever since the Samut Sakhon outbreak in dec last year, then yes…

 

They will obviously open up in Oct…

Agreed

[anchadian]

Spokesman for the Center for Economic Situation Administration said the accumulated number of foreign visitors to Phuket since the sandbox initiative began rose to 22,810 and local hotel rooms were reserved in the Phuket Sandbox project for more than 400,000 nights in Q3.

@TNAMCOT

 

https://twitter.com/TNAMCOTEnglish/status/1429661925432987648

 

[fondue zoo]

Now fingers crossed that the Lambda and B1621 variants never make landfall.

[mtraveler]

1 hour ago, wordchild said:

well the Thai stock market seems to believe that things are getting better, market is pretty strong today (plus 1%) with the banks notably strong, Bangkok Bank and Kasikorn both up 5%   

You might want to look at the US Stock market and how it reacted to the peak at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021, and the latest rise in Covid figures.  Both times the market continued to move upwards.  Unfortunately there's no correlation between the two.  

 

[Kadilo]

46 minutes ago, Phoenix Rising said:

".... the fantastic ongoing vaccination efforts...."

????, thanks I needed that!

 

Steven100, is that you??

Shame people don’t appreciate the efforts of the nurses and volunteers working round the clock to reach these numbers. 
 

Sad indictment of society today and the type of people who frequent these forums nowadays that they want to laugh at people who mock them 

Edited August 23, 2021 by Kadilo

[wordchild]

1 minute ago, mtraveler said:

You might want to look at the US Stock market and how it reacted to the peak at the end of 2020/beginning of 2021, and the latest rise in Covid figures.  Both times the market continued to move upwards.  Unfortunately there's no correlation between the two.  

 

good point; also its likely that the strength of the banks today is mainly down to some helpful action from the Bank of Thailand.

 Nevertheless i think there is better background sentiment (in the market) at least partly due to a feeling that the worst of the covid figures maybe behind us.  

[Bkk Brian]

8 minutes ago, fondue zoo said:

Now fingers crossed that the Lambda and B1621 variants never make landfall.

Its probably just as important to be concerned about the new home grown mutations that can occur here with delta on the rampage and still out of control. 

[anchadian]

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Labor is preparing to allow workers from three neighboring countries to return, under a memorandum of understanding (MoU). The move is in line with government policy to solve labor shortages arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and its containment.

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld/posts/10158214048102050

 

[GStewart70]

2 hours 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. 
 

 

You might want to find the articles from a leading doctor and Thailand's rural doctors society, freely available on the forum, that back up the theory your spouting nonsense. (again.)

[dinsdale]

I posted this on the other thread but I think it also can be posted here.

 

Cases continue at around 40% infection rate. One can therefore extrapolate that 50,000 tests a day 20,000 infections detected. 100,000 tests a day 40,000 infections detected. 40,000 tests 16,000 detections. If they did 100,000 PCR tests per day and went out into the community and did 100,000 ATK tests per day (taking into account false positives and false negatives) you would be looking at numbers upward of 60,000 per day at the low end being an infection rate of 30% and maybe 100,000 at the high end being an infection rate of 50%. 

[metisdead]

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Edited August 23, 2021 by metisdead