Thailand reports 15,191 new COVID-19 cases and 253 more deaths

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File photo: REUTERS/Juarawee Kittisilpa

 

Thailand on Saturday (September 11) reported 15,191 new COVID-19 cases, 18,721 recoveries and 253 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.

 

● 18,721 recoveries

● 14,465 new infections 

● 726 prison / prison infections

 

Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,368,144 with 14,173 deaths.

 

(Total infections since April 1: 1,339,281)

 

The news comes as the Ministry of Public Health has addressed concerns brought up by the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administratio’s (CCSA) Adviser Dr. Udom Kachinthorn, who believes that there may be 6-7 million asymptomatic COVID-19 infected individuals yet to be discovered within the population.

 

Director of the Department of Disease Control’s Office of Emergency Disease and Health Threats, Dr. Chawetsan Namwat acknowledged today that according to epidemiological estimations, Dr. Udom’s observation is possible but not a cause for concern. He elaborated that symptomatic sufferers of the virus are easier to detect but asymptomatic infections can still be contained if everyone practices preventative measures.

 

The Ministry of Public Health is nevertheless screening for such cases and working to make Antigen Test Kits readily available to people entering restaurants and other public spaces.

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[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436491183182647302

 

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436476138419732486

 

[Bkk Brian]

Prison cases keep going up despite their promises weeks ago that they had adequate measures in place. Jump also in ATK positive tests.

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 15,191 official new infections, with 726 of those from prison and 14,465 from the community. 253 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,534 bringing the unofficial total to 17,725

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 9th Sept) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases from daily official announcements.

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

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436476360579420160

 

[anchadian]

UPDATE: 15,191 confirmed cases, 2,534 probable cases, and 253 deaths (1.04%). Out of 137,859 patients, 40,040 in hospital, 69,694 in hospitel and 22,792 in home/community isolation. 4,168 in a serious condition (-162) with 875 on ventilators (-40) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436495914261090304

[Macrohistory]

Gotta love this line:

"Director of the Department of Disease Control’s Office of Emergency Disease and Health Threats, Dr. Chawetsan Namwat acknowledged today that according to epidemiological estimations, Dr. Udom’s observation [that there may be 6-7 million asymptomatic COVID-19 infected individuals yet to be discovered within the population] is possible but not a cause for concern."

Utter Orwellian nonsense.

[Scrotobike]

1 minute ago, Macrohistory said:

Gotta love this line:

"Director of the Department of Disease Control’s Office of Emergency Disease and Health Threats, Dr. Chawetsan Namwat acknowledged today that according to epidemiological estimations, Dr. Udom’s observation [that there may be 6-7 million asymptomatic COVID-19 infected individuals yet to be discovered within the population] is possible but not a cause for concern."

Utter Orwellian nonsense.

Make me doubt the numbers meaning - oh wait I already think they are a load of stinky fish.

Again take care Dr Udom the truth is dangerous in a dictatorship. Brave man. Watch out for the men in black.

[anchadian]

Parents in Thailand to Be Warned Over Possible Pfizer Risks

 

Thailand’s Centre for Covid Situation Administration has said the government will make 4.8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine available for children aged 12-17 nationwide. The CCSA also said parents will be informed about the possible risks.

 

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/health/parents-in-thailand-to-be-warned-over-possible-pfizer-risks/

[edwinchester]

11 minutes ago, Macrohistory said:

Gotta love this line:

"Director of the Department of Disease Control’s Office of Emergency Disease and Health Threats, Dr. Chawetsan Namwat acknowledged today that according to epidemiological estimations, Dr. Udom’s observation [that there may be 6-7 million asymptomatic COVID-19 infected individuals yet to be discovered within the population] is possible but not a cause for concern."

Utter Orwellian nonsense.

Spot on, how can he be a Director spouting such rubbish?

[Bkk Brian]

20 minutes ago, anchadian said:

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436476360579420160

 

Sad, another 4 deaths yesterday in Phuket bringing the total to 37 and the CFR rate to 0.56%

 

We all know that we will need to live with this virus for the foreseeable future even after high vaccination rates and I guess Phuket is an example of that. The important point is that the hospitals are not overwhelmed there and so it looks like the vaccines are working, albeit since most were with Sinovac the spread and cases will still be more than they would have been if more effective vaccines were used.

 

Interesting data from  Malaysia just released on vaccine effectiveness for deaths in the wave they've been experiencing there and the vaccines used, its no surprise there are far more deaths occurring with those fully vaccinated with Sinovac than the other covid vaccines used. It should be noted that Pfizer was one of the first vaccines used there so its effects are showing signs of waning compared to AZ:

 

Malaysia vaccine data

https://covidnow.moh.gov.my/deaths/

https://github.com/MoH-Malaysia/covid19-public

 

Edited September 11, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[DrJack54]

19 minutes ago, anchadian said:

. 4,168 in a serious condition (-162) with 875 on ventilators (-40)

Always nice to see drop in # folk serious condition and ventilators.

 

[smedly]

21 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Prison cases keep going up despite their promises weeks ago that they had adequate measures in place

something just doesn't sit right with me about these so called cases found in prisons, does anyone really think this government is going out of its way to spend a valuable resource like PCR Testing on prison inmates - I find that highly unlikely which brings into question .........................why

 

If they are going to test inmates why not use cheap RAT tests

[smedly]

25 minutes ago, anchadian said:

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436476360579420160

 

serious question 

 

why is Phuket not a Deep Red Zone ?

 

Pattaya is Deep Red and has less than half the daily cases and going down

[smedly]

35 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,534 bringing the unofficial total to 17,725

even these rapid test numbers are now unreliable - are people not given test kits to test themselves at home or whatever

 

 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2021 by smedly

[DonniePeverley]

Uh oh 

 

With such little testing this is still pretty bad. Going back up. 

[Ohyesuare]

12 minutes ago, smedly said:

serious question 

 

why is Phuket not a Deep Red Zone ?

 

Pattaya is Deep Red and has less than half the daily cases and going down

Pattaya is part of Chon Buri province which still has around 1000 cases a day. You can't lower the zone of just Pattaya (Banglamung).

[anchadian]

Southeast Asia reported 75,832 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, lower than Thursday’s 80,238. There were 1,390 fatalities, almost on par with the previous day’s 1,388. #Asean #COVID19 #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40005988

[smedly]

9 minutes ago, Ohyesuare said:

Pattaya is part of Chon Buri province which still has around 1000 cases a day. You can't lower the zone of just Pattaya (Banglamung).

Yes they officially include it in Chon Buri numbers but I don't, it is a separate City with its own population, Pattaya and Phuket are quite comparable in population and size

 

It is already separated when it comes to reopening 1st Oct

Edited September 11, 2021 by smedly

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Dr. Chawetsan Namwat acknowledged today that according to epidemiological estimations, Dr. Udom’s observation is possible but not a cause for concern. He elaborated that symptomatic sufferers of the virus are easier to detect but asymptomatic infections can still be contained if everyone practices preventative measures.

Another ostrich sticking his head in the sand after they open up and let it spread more throughout the population before ensuring all are vaccinated. Are these guys tha unintelligent or just in denial it could blow up in another big wave. Of course you only detect symptomatic patients when they present for help and treatment while the asymptomatic continue to spread the virus and turn some of those into symptomatic patients.  I guess they feel the hospitals, hospitels and field community isolation centers can handle it all.

[ThailandRyan]

36 minutes ago, smedly said:

serious question 

 

why is Phuket not a Deep Red Zone ?

 

Pattaya is Deep Red and has less than half the daily cases and going down

Because it would ruin the Sandbox image.

[ikke1959]

50 minutes ago, smedly said:

something just doesn't sit right with me about these so called cases found in prisons, does anyone really think this government is going out of its way to spend a valuable resource like PCR Testing on prison inmates - I find that highly unlikely which brings into question .........................why

 

If they are going to test inmates why not use cheap RAT tests

Prison cases are only used to lower the numbers of the general public.. It looks better if the infections are going down or not to quick up... So if the cases are not so much a few prisons cases if it looks worse more prisons cases. However this morning on the news channel there was a topic that there was something stolen in jail and if you see how many prisoners are in a cell it is no wonder that there are a lot of cases too... surely not 2 m distance but man to man there.. The responsible Government 

[anchadian]

Cambodian Workers Returning from Thailand Complain of Extended Quarantines

Cambodian migrant workers returning from neighboring Thailand amid the coronavirus pandemic say authorities are keeping them in quarantine facilities near the Thai border more than twice as long as required, resulting in the spread of COVID-19 infections in the centers.

 

https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/quarantine-complaint-09102021170813.html

[smedly]

7 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Prison cases are only used to lower the numbers of the general public.. It looks better if the infections are going down or not to quick up... So if the cases are not so much a few prisons cases if it looks worse more prisons cases. However this morning on the news channel there was a topic that there was something stolen in jail and if you see how many prisoners are in a cell it is no wonder that there are a lot of cases too... surely not 2 m distance but man to man there.. The responsible Government 

Thai prisons are interesting especially were delta is concerned, I would have thought that delta spread very rapidly through prison population over a matter of a couple of weeks, that would mean that everyone in prison has already been infected with covid weeks ago, only those added to the prison population recently would account for new cases if they hadn't already been infected or been vaccinated with an effective vaccine.

 

So prison cases are one of the following IMO

 

- New inmates added to the prison population that had not been vaccinated or previously infected 

 

- the above plus massive reinfections

 

- very few of the above and it is total B S

 

- a mixture of all the above

 

Either way I think it is safe to assume that everyone in prison has been infected at least once 

 

It would be an interesting study

[ThailandRyan]

49 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Cambodian Workers Returning from Thailand Complain of Extended Quarantines

Cambodian migrant workers returning from neighboring Thailand amid the coronavirus pandemic say authorities are keeping them in quarantine facilities near the Thai border more than twice as long as required, resulting in the spread of COVID-19 infections in the centers.

 

https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/thai/quarantine-complaint-09102021170813.html

That and then when they were also bubble and sealed with little food and other things. Horrible conditions, treated as slaves in my view.

[edwinchester]

52 minutes ago, Victornoir said:

If you believe all the covid gossip here, depression is looming over you.

Not depressed at all just responding to a report that the Director of the Govt's Covid Disease office doesn't think up to 7 million undetected and asymptomatic cases loose in the public is a problem or cause for concern.

[anchadian]

IN FOCUS: Thai civil society steps up as Bangkok’s public healthcare buckles under COVID-19

 

As the pandemic rages in Thailand, CNA looks at how volunteers have jumped into action to help those on the margins of society.

 

BANGKOK: In April, a video clip of an e-sport legend went viral in Thailand.

It was a Facebook live recording broadcast by Kunlasub ‘Up’ Wattanaphon, who once led a big e-gaming clan named VGB or Vagabond Team to successfully compete in various tournaments.

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-focus-civil-society-covid-19-bangkok-health-system-2164051

[anchadian]

3 hours ago, anchadian said:

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436476138419732486

 

Further details:

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/09/11/chonburi-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-rise-to-991-with-9-deaths/

[anchadian]

From the total confirmed cases: - 12,647 were found via walk-in tests at medical facilities - 2,538 via proactive tests at known clusters - 6 imported cases 18,721 people have recovered in the past 24 hours #โควิด19 #โควิด19วันนี้ #Thailand #Covid19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1436550188500328449

[anchadian]

Of the 14,459 cases in the general Thai population, the highest numbers were 3,364 in Bangkok followed by 1,308 in Samut Prakan, 991 in Chonburi, 643 in Samut Sakhon, 629 Ratchaburi, 473 in Songkhla, 441 in Rayong and 372 in Prachinburi.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1436551124698337281