Signs of improving COVID-19 situation in Thailand

[webfact]

Elderly people and their carers queue up for walk-in Covid-19 coronavirus vaccinations at Bang Sue Central Railway Station in Bangkok on July 22, 2021, as Thailand struggles to inoculate its population due to nationwide shortages. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

 

The COVID-19 situation in Thailand is improving, with the rate of daily new infections steadily slowing and more patients recovering, at an average of over 20,000 cases a day for the past 3 weeks and surpassing new infections for the past ten days, said Government Spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana on Sunday.

 

Although the daily new infection rate remains high, due to the rapidly spreading Delta variant, he is optimistic that the rate of infections will continue to decline.

 

Thanakorn also said that, by the end of this year, Thailand will have received about 140 million doses of vaccines and the Thai government has negotiated the purchase of two million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine per month with the European Union and the procurement of 2.5-3 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine per month from September to December.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/signs-of-improving-covid-19-situation-in-thailand/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2021-08-30

 

- Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you

- Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

[pegman]

You never know if you are being feed the truth from these guys but let's hope it is true and the situation is improving 

[lujanit]

The junta has is using the 'if you throw enough sh$$t at the fan eventually some will stick' routine.  The manufacturing of daily figures has been evident for a while now.  Not including positive rapid antigen tests in the daily figures is one example.

 

The sooner this junta is thrown out of office, jailed for life and all their assets confiscated the better for Thailand.  Sadly I don't see this happening soon.

[Somtamnication]

Can't believe these numbers. If the police are corrupt, then these numbers............

[Moonfire]

Made this post yesterday:

 

Follow the past to understand the present.

Look back at the daily infection vs deaths for the last 3 months. Here is a hint 10,000 infected equals close to 100 deaths.

Now what do we see 19k infected and 290ish deaths. Which seems to reflect the infected rate closer to 29,000 a day based off the number of death using the daily tracking history for the last 3 month in my opinion.

[Rocking Robert]

This Covid thing isn’t going anywhere you might as well open up and just deal with it 

[Paul Henry]

Great to see social distancing being enforced at Bang Sue Railway Station?

[lexxy]

I love to read these emails everyday to stay in touch with the news in thailand however its draining to see the constant negativity from alot of posters here.

See you soon thailand!

[10baht]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

he is optimistic that the rate of infections will continue to decline.

Yes they will decline as you lower the number of tests.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The COVID-19 situation in Thailand is improving, with the rate of daily new infections steadily slowing and more patients recovering, at an average of over 20,000 cases a day for the past 3 weeks and surpassing new infections for the past ten days, said Government Spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana on Sunday.

Signs of improving.... 2,000 a day they shut the country down

now it's just under 20,000 it's improving?

[Benmart]

Numbers and statistics are puddy which can be manipulated for any agenda. The current lot at the helm have had years to fabricate and corrupt anything they see as useful to control the masses. This latest adventure fits in nicely towards that aim.  Time shall reveal the real story.

[ikke1959]

And the 4th wave is coming soon

[hotchilli]

58 minutes ago, Rocking Robert said:

This Covid thing isn’t going anywhere you might as well open up and just deal with it 

Hope it doesn't come knocking on your door.

You seem like a "p*ss on the fire my toasts done" sort of person.

[hotchilli]

11 minutes ago, 10baht said:

Yes they will decline as you lower the number of tests.

They will decline, in-line with Prayuts promise to open up this October... 

we can all see what's happening down in Phuket although TAT choose to look the opposite way.

Opening up Thailand will do the same as phuket, just on a national scale.

Remember only 30% have as yet had a jab.

[10baht]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The COVID-19 situation in Thailand is improving, with the rate of daily new infections steadily slowing

The COVID-19 situation in Afghanistan is improving as well. Do you think it is because of social distancing at the Kabul airport or poor, non-transparent number crunching by the government. Or lack of testing?

[Swampy999]

39 minutes ago, lextsy said:

I love to read these emails everyday to stay in touch with the news in thailand however its draining to see the constant negativity from alot of posters here.

See you soon thailand!

Since when was it negative to comment on the facts? Most of us do not wear rose-coloured glasses.

[jacko45k]

18 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Signs of improving.... 2,000 a day they shut the country down

now it's just under 20,000 it's improving?

The rate of change is more a factor.... ie going up or going down. Deaths will lag behind infections, about 14 days. 

[Iforbach]

What a depressing bunch 

[Aussie999]

1 minute ago, Iforbach said:

What a depressing bunch 

The truth can be depressing... the ignorant hide from it.

 

[XJPSX]

We were told the figures by the man in charge the figures WOULD drop this month and I am certain that he will make sure they DO drop.

He may be the only man in the world that can predict Coronavirus figures. He may have magical powers.

I will leave the rest to you to work out how we have had a dramatic turnaround ????

 

However I do believe what he is doing is correct if the economy is ever going to open again and people eat.

[Bangkok Barry]

40 minutes ago, Swampy999 said:

1 hour ago, lextsy said:

I love to read these emails everyday to stay in touch with the news in thailand however its draining to see the constant negativity from alot of posters here.

See you soon thailand!

Since when was it negative to comment on the facts? Most of us do not wear rose-coloured glasses.

Seconded. Thailand has only 10% of the population fully vaccinated, and is 118th or 120th out of 120 countries (the position depends which report you read) in preparations made for recovery. Thousands of businesses have been destroyed and many are living on the street or in derelict buildings. A YouTube video of Pattaya was posted on this site yesterday. What is there to be positive about, but enjoy your flight.

[ebean001]

the vaccine is a great break through. I wish we had a great break through on treatment for those infected. 

 

[Spock]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Hope it doesn't come knocking on your door.

You seem like a "p*ss on the fire my toasts done" sort of person.

If you are vaccinated it is an attitude you can afford to hold. Unfortunately Thailand is a long way off being vaccinated to the point they can open the floodgates to let the virus in.

[metisdead]

A post with a chart that was copy and pasted from some site without a supporting link to the source has been removed.

 

A post with a trolling image has been removed. 

[Uncle95]

2 hours ago, Moonfire said:

Made this post yesterday:

 

Follow the past to understand the present.

Look back at the daily infection vs deaths for the last 3 months. Here is a hint 10,000 infected equals close to 100 deaths.

Now what do we see 19k infected and 290ish deaths. Which seems to reflect the infected rate closer to 29,000 a day based off the number of death using the daily tracking history for the last 3 month in my opinion.

Deaths lag behind infections so won’t turn down yet to line up with infection rate

[skorp13]

We've never known the true numbers for many reasons, the best way to tell is going by the number of people in field hospitals and or icu's. These they can get are, if they want, hard numbers. We all know what a control crazy, power hungry regime this is. The fact that they will admit numbers are coming down and we may be on the downslope of the curve is at least something to be optimistic about....maybe ????

[Ohyesuare]

2 hours ago, Moonfire said:

Made this post yesterday:

 

Follow the past to understand the present.

Look back at the daily infection vs deaths for the last 3 months. Here is a hint 10,000 infected equals close to 100 deaths.

Now what do we see 19k infected and 290ish deaths. Which seems to reflect the infected rate closer to 29,000 a day based off the number of death using the daily tracking history for the last 3 month in my opinion.

You're forgetting that deaths lag cases. There could suddenly be 1000 new cases tomorrow but still 300 deaths from people infected many weeks ago so today's deaths don't tell us anything about today's number of cases.

[HappyExpat57]

I'm always skeptical of numbers coming from any Thai authority.

[HappyExpat57]

2 hours ago, Moonfire said:

Made this post yesterday:

 

Follow the past to understand the present.

Look back at the daily infection vs deaths for the last 3 months. Here is a hint 10,000 infected equals close to 100 deaths.

Now what do we see 19k infected and 290ish deaths. Which seems to reflect the infected rate closer to 29,000 a day based off the number of death using the daily tracking history for the last 3 month in my opinion.

There you go with those pesky facts. The Thought Police don't like that! You will soon be sent to a "reorientation camp."

[FunkyDunky58]

29.8% of all statistics are totally made up.