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Thailand on Wednesday (August 25) reported 18,417 new COVID-19 cases, 21,186 recoveries and 297 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.

 

● 21,186 recoveries

● 18,271 new infections 

● 146 prison / prison infections

 

Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,102,368 with 10,085 deaths.

 

(Total infections since April 1: 1,073,505)

 

The news comes as a single dose of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines is only 13.8 per cent effective against the new Delta variant, a recent study conducted in Guangzhou, China shows.

 

The research shows that while two shots of the Chinese vaccines are effective at, 59 per cent in preventing the Delta strain and 70.2 to 100 per cent effective at preventing severe symptoms caused by the variant, a single shot of the vaccines was only 13.8 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 infections.

 

Four sub-variants of the fast-spreading Delta strain of coronavirus have been found in samples sent to the Centre of Medical Genomics at Mahidol University for examination, said Professor Emeritus Dr. Wasun Chantratita, chief of the centre.

 

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https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1430330902815461376

 

UPDATE: 18,417 confirmed cases. 1,185 probable ATK cases. 7-day testing average is 50,569. Out of 189,268 patients, 27,691 in hospital, 78,247 in hospitel and 79,222 in home/community isolation. 5,189 in a serious condition (-40) and 1,096 on ventilators (+1) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1430335675514068998

 

PCR tests, total of 18,417 official new infections, with 146 of those from prison and 18,271 from community. 297 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Increasing positive cases for the last couple of days although currently remains under the 20k mark officially, maybe a flatline period to come which correlates with flatline testing. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 1,185 bringing the unofficial total to 19,456 a dip from yesterday's numbers.

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

 

50,569 official pcr tests carried out yesterday.

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 23rd Aug) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases from daily official announcements.

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

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 974 new cases today and 12 more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (251), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (147), and Si Racha (287). There are now 18,942 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1430317639709040640

 

After two successive days of improvement in the pandemic crisis, Southeast Asia saw an increase in new Covid-19 cases and deaths on Tuesday, collated data showed. #Covid19 #ASEAN #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40005217

Testing numbers hold steady/Infection numbers hold steady.

These daily 'Recoveries' figures are just a smoke screen to deflect people's eyes away from the important numbers of new cases and deaths; just another way of this wicked Governments plans to fudge, hide, and generally be untruthful.

It's odd, or oddly 'funny', or perhaps just very human the things to which we all get inured.

 

Infection rates are running a major multiple of the levels that led to three previous closures/restrictions, and deaths are---in a single day---about 4-5 times the number of deaths in the entire first year of Covid, yet not only are some praising the 'declining trend', but these folks, along with the govt, are talking about relaxation of restrictions.

 

We, collectively, have come to accept massive infection and hundreds of deaths each day, when 16 months ago the country closed down and a curfew was imposed due to one or two deaths per day...if even that.

 

I am not arguing that Thailand should stay closed forever, just pointing out that what once scared the bejesus out of the Thai population is now part of the proverbial 'new normal'. I understand the economic necessity of some sort of relaxation, and I've seen the pain that closures have brought into the streets and sidewalks of Bangkok. It's that this is just one of those very 'human' moments where we come to accept things that a few years ago would have been unthinkable.

 

In a weird way this reminds me of one of Stalin's famous statements: "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." In Thailand, the 'statistic' is now 10,000, yet we're 'seeing light at the end of the tunnel'.

10,085 deaths since last year but 9,991 of those since 1st April this year. It’s not the flu then. It’s more than Thailand’s road traffic accidents then. 

Without discussing whether the numbers are real, how low are they going to go? What’s the floor for the current decline?

 

I suspect that some low number of new infections is going to be acceptable to re-open the country, and become background noise.

 

oh, yes: there isn’t enough testing ™️ 

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by Danderman123

7 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

These daily 'Recoveries' figures are just a smoke screen to deflect people's eyes away from the important numbers of new cases and deaths; just another way of this wicked Governments plans to fudge, hide, and generally be untruthful.

I was wondering at what point do they class a recovery? in the case of my brother in law who was in hospital on oxygen they took him off it one day and the next day sent him home certainly not recovered gave him a bag full of med's told him to stay indoors, nobody came to see him and no more test, which I thought was strange

8 minutes ago, coolcarer said:

10,085 deaths since last year but 9,991 of those since 1st April this year. It’s not the flu then. It’s more than Thailand’s road traffic accidents then. 

Don,t you know not tomention road accidents! 

The metric for this pandemic is truly the number of those that died. However, another metric that has not even started to be looked at in its totality is the after effects, or what has been termed as "Long Covid".  No matter what happens or has happened this one virus will have far reaching effects felt for many years. Those from a financial, economic, and personal impact which has taken lives, ruined businesses and destroyed prosperity once had by many.

 

Vaccines aside, if folks and governments had gotten on board and immediately addressed the issues and all treated each other with respect and dignity by standing together then maybe this would have been over already.  Selfishness, stubbornness and those with the conspiratorial views have caused way more damage to folks around them. Of course that's my view.

 

Stay safe and take the best care you can of yourselves and family.

What this week shows without any semblance of doubt is that the government have absolutely no idea what they are doing and have absolutely no strategy whatsoever.

 

Numbers went down for a couple of days and the medical experts and politicians all said “that’s it, numbers are down and we are going to open up”…that is from the experts. No strategy around waiting a couple of days to see how it plays out, no strategy around testing to prove their thesis.

 

Rise couloured glasses crowd (admittedly a crowd of 3 or 4), what proof do you need that they have and never have had any clue what they are doing. They are every bit as amateur and clueless as everyone feared.

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The metric for this pandemic is truly the number of those that died. However, another metric that has not even started to be looked at in its totality is the after effects, or what has been termed as "Long Covid".  No matter what happens or has happened this one virus will have far reaching effects felt for many years. Those from a financial, economic, and personal impact which has taken lives, ruined businesses and destroyed prosperity once had by many.

 

Vaccines aside, if folks and governments had gotten on board and immediately addressed the issues and all treated each other with respect and dignity by standing together then maybe this would have been over already.  Selfishness, stubbornness and those with the conspiratorial views have caused way more damage to folks around them. Of course that's my view.

 

Stay safe and take the best care you can of yourselves and family.

You are right we dont know the long term effects, there was a football player in England he's OK now but it seemed to take him a while to get fit enough to play again,

25 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I was wondering at what point do they class a recovery? in the case of my brother in law who was in hospital on oxygen they took him off it one day and the next day sent him home certainly not recovered gave him a bag full of med's told him to stay indoors, nobody came to see him and no more test, which I thought was strange

Being that it used to be around 50% recovered (I believe these to be truly recovered) to admissions which then increased to 100% virtually overnight and now surpasses infections, I would say at least 50% now are not fully recovered but simply released from medical care. What they are now calling recovered is a deliberate misuse of the word.

Edited August 25, 20214 yr by dinsdale

Predictions game, differing views from different experts, notice the "if". With usual get out clauses

 

Thailand has passed the peak of Covid-19 outbreak, says DDC

 

The Covid-19 outbreak in the country has passed its peak after daily infection rate has started to decrease in the past week, the Department of Disease Control said on Tuesday.

 

The situation will gradually improve if the daily infection rate continues to decline, said Dr Chawetsan Namwat, director of the DDC's emergency disease and health hazards control division.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40005225

The Ministry of Public Health has revealed that the Delta #COVID19 variant can spread as fast as chicken pox, so the vaccine is not enough to stop the spread of the virus. It is necessary to apply public health measures along with vaccinations.

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1430349209702526981

 

the 7 day average for daily deaths had stalled out at about 180/day not long ago.  but since then we've had a few high count days (300+ and high 200's) and now we are up to about 260/day on the 7 day avg.  so quite a move up from two weeks ago.  i hope the top of the peak is being put in now.

19 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Thailand has passed the peak of Covid-19 outbreak, says DDC

 

passed the peak of wave 3

 

wave 4 will come at some point, just like other countries

9 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The Ministry of Public Health has revealed that the Delta #COVID19 variant can spread as fast as chicken pox, so the vaccine is not enough to stop the spread of the virus. It is necessary to apply public health measures along with vaccinations.

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1430349209702526981

 

And BKK is going to be rolling out the red carpet to dirty farangs in Q4.........

This is going to drift on and on and on.

18 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The Ministry of Public Health has revealed that the Delta #COVID19 variant can spread as fast as chicken pox, so the vaccine is not enough to stop the spread of the virus. It is necessary to apply public health measures along with vaccinations.

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1430349209702526981

 

This is already a well known fact regarding chickenpox and then they go onto say that vaccines aren't enough to stop the spread of the virus and only yesterday were saying high vaccination rates are needed for herd immunity which stops transmission. 

3 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

Do you have first hand knowledge (raw numbers) or a link to substantiate your comment?

 

If not - its just an opinion. Everybody is entitled to an opinion, of course - they just don't add much to a grave subject like this.

50,569 PCP tests done yesterday. Absolutetly pitiful number for a nation of 70,000,000 and in no way can give anything even close to knowing the spread of this virus. Every expert calls this under-reporting meaning true numbers are substantially higher.

8 minutes ago, mistral53 said:

Do you have first hand knowledge (raw numbers) or a link to substantiate your comment?

 

If not - its just an opinion. Everybody is entitled to an opinion, of course - they just don't add much to a grave subject like this.

Yes raw numbers for testing are released daily from official sources, look at the posts above

51 minutes ago, Marvin Hagler said:

What this week shows without any semblance of doubt is that the government have absolutely no idea what they are doing and have absolutely no strategy whatsoever.

 

Numbers went down for a couple of days and the medical experts and politicians all said “that’s it, numbers are down and we are going to open up”…that is from the experts. No strategy around waiting a couple of days to see how it plays out, no strategy around testing to prove their thesis.

 

Rise couloured glasses crowd (admittedly a crowd of 3 or 4), what proof do you need that they have and never have had any clue what they are doing. They are every bit as amateur and clueless as everyone feared.

You are totally right.. They have no clue and no vision....But let them open everything and we will see that the numbers will rise to highs we haven't seen yet.. Than they will cry fool and don't know how to solve it. Thai people like to make big messes before they com in real action. In a western country we try to keep the problems small and yes it will hurt the businesses but look now what is happening in Eu and the USA : everything is going almost to be normal again, and still there are new cases, but a lot of things are back to normal. I fear the worst has to come yet

9 minutes ago, Victornoir said:

Fortunately you're here to remind us, eh, we would not have thought of it alone.

PS. You forgot the recommendations for the dog. Animals also matter ...

Do you often edit quotes and take them out of context?

36 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

The Ministry of Public Health has revealed that the Delta #COVID19 variant can spread as fast as chicken pox, so the vaccine is not enough to stop the spread of the virus. It is necessary to apply public health measures along with vaccinations.

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1430349209702526981

 

Oh chicken pox.... No problem lets open the country on 1st of October....We handle it with bad efeective vaccines, and wear masks.. but markets can open because they are never crowded and it is easy to keep distance even if you go for a jab.. So no danger anymore 

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Do you often edit quotes and take them out of context?

Never saw his post as he is not one I see based upon preferences.  Guess the goldfish should be wished well also.

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