People receive China's Sinovac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the Central Vaccination Center, inside the Bang Sue Grand Station, in Bangkok, Thailand, May 24, 2021. REUTERS

 

Thailand on Sunday (Sept 12) reported 14,029 new COVID-19 cases and 180 more fatalities, according to data released by the Ministry of Public Health.

 

The new cases have brought the country's total number of infections to top 1.38 million, while that of fatalities has risen to 14,353 since the pandemic began.

 

Sunday also saw 15,742 recoveries, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1.23 million. 

 

As of Friday, the government had administered 39.63 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with more than 17 percent of the whole population having been fully vaccinated.

 

Meanwhile, the government said it aims to administer 24 million vaccine doses in October.

 

According to the CCSA, Thailand will be receiving a total of 71 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from various manufacturers, with 24 million to arrive in October consisting of 10 million doses from AstraZeneca, 8 million doses from Pfizer, and 6 million doses from Sinovac.

 

In November, 23 million more doses are expected to be delivered, namely 13 million doses from AstraZeneca and 10 million doses from Pfizer; followed by another 24 million doses in December, with 14 million doses from AstraZeneca and 10 million doses from Pfizer.

 

The general public aged from 18 years will continue to receive either the Sinovac-AstraZeneca mix and match regimen, or two doses of AstraZeneca, or the new AstraZeneca-Pfizer regimen. The CCSA expects 16.8 million doses of vaccine will be used by this group.

 

 

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Thailand now forming a delta wave flatline since 30th Aug. Lets hope the break from here continues down, with the covid measures extended then hopefully that will be the case.

 

 PCR test positive cases, total of 14,029 official new infections, with 276 of those from prison and 13,753 from the community. 180 official covid deaths recorded, a nice drop although of course still high. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,240 bringing the unofficial total to 16,269

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 10th Sept) 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 848 new cases today and 11 more deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (234), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (115), and Si Racha (230). There are 13,643 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436839376097447937

Phuket health authorities are reporting 230 new local cases , zero cases from the Sandbox and two deaths. There are 3,197 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 89 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436839575024848896

UPDATE: 14,029 confirmed cases, 2,240 probable cases, and 181 deaths (1.04%). Out of 135,966 patients, 40,601 in hospital, 67,994 in hospitel and 21,970 in home/community isolation. 4,103 in a serious condition (-65) with 856 on ventilators (-19) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436860223092756480

Again down in 'serious condition' and 'ventilators' good news.

 

Good to see the numbers dropping as they are, especially those on ventilators.  Lets hope we have started to see the downside of this wave, however i will reserve any more comments until the end of this week and see where we stand.  I truly do not understand the flatline other than it possibly being caused by a lack of true testing and the use of the ATK home tests. Icon Siam yesterday was full of folks, parking structure was full to the top at 1 pm when we went and the restaurants were also busy.  Pent up demand for shopping and escaping being stuck inside the last month was very evident.

Southeast Asia witnessed a rise in new Covid-19 infections and a decline in deaths on Saturday, collated data showed.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40006010

27 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Southeast Asia witnessed a rise in new Covid-19 infections and a decline in deaths on Saturday, collated data showed.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40006010

Vietnam: hopefully their lockdown can buy time. Numbers levelled last few days.

Strange that their daily vaccination numbers are so much lower than Thailand and Vietnamese population so much higher.

28 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

.  Pent up demand for shopping and escaping being stuck inside the last month was very evident

Heading out to jayjay later.

I believe it was closed for a period during current restrictions. Will be interested in number of folks out. 

Guessing it won't quite be normal.

 

 

Thailand seeing 'Children's rights crisis' due to Covid-19: Unicef official

BANGKOK - Since the new school year started this year, 15-year-old Peerapat Tiemkoksung has found it a challenge to keep up with the lessons online.

 

Not only does he find at-home learning difficult to follow with the absence of textbooks and worksheets, but his attendance used to vary, depending on who in his family got to use the one smartphone shared between the high school student, his 10-year-old sister Pornphan and his mother.

 

(Paywall)

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-seeing-childrens-rights-crisis-due-to-covid-19-unicef-official

For those not paying attention, the purpose of a lockdown, or heavy restrictions, is to keep infection numbers low, while vaccinations are in process. 

 

A lockdown is usually not intended to eradicate the virus, just slow it down. 

 

So, it seems that the government approach to slowing the virus has had some success, in this context, whereas no restrictions would have led to many more deaths. 

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1 hour ago, anchadian said:

UPDATE: 14,029 confirmed cases, 2,240 probable cases, and 181 deaths (1.04%). Out of 135,966 patients, 40,601 in hospital, 67,994 in hospitel and 21,970 in home/community isolation. 4,103 in a serious condition (-65) with 856 on ventilators (-19) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436860223092756480

Interesting to see the CFR for each Province at https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/index.php?dashboard=province from 1st April

 

Bangkok = 1.60% 

Samut Prakan = 1,05%

Chonburi = 0.67%

Khon Kean = 0.36%

Phuket = 0.58% despite being the most vaxxed Province? Creeping up again since another 2 deaths yesterday.

The gf just related that cluster in CM has caused closure of 11 shops.

Any confirmation from CM folk?

Doesn't sound like a big deal but these things don't help.

53 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

For those not paying attention, the purpose of a lockdown, or heavy restrictions, is to keep infection numbers low, while vaccinations are in process. 

 

A lockdown is usually not intended to eradicate the virus, just slow it down. 

 

So, it seems that the government approach to slowing the virus has had some success, in this context, whereas no restrictions would have led to many more deaths. 

 

And by the way, this is what death from COVID looks like -- useful for the COVID-denying brigade in a country of super-low vaccination rates to ponder:

LA Times

26 August 2021

Op-Ed: On the front lines, here’s what the seven stages of severe COVID-19 look like

BY KAREN GALLARDO

 

I’m a respiratory therapist. With the fourth wave of the pandemic in full swing, fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant, the trajectory of the patients I see, from admission to critical care, is all too familiar. When they’re vaccinated, their COVID-19 infections most likely end after Stage 1. If only that were the case for everyone.

 

Get vaccinated. If you choose not to, here’s what to expect if you are hospitalized for a serious case of COVID-19.

 

Stage 1. You’ve had debilitating symptoms for a few days, but now it is so hard to breathe that you come to the emergency room. Your oxygen saturation level tells us you need help, a supplemental flow of 1 to 4 liters of oxygen per minute. We admit you and start you on antivirals, steroids, anticoagulants or monoclonal antibodies...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-26/pandemic-covid-19-stages-vaccination-intensive-care-respiratory-therapist

 

Yes sure.... only 13.800 about in the general people tested are positive in Covid.. With 18 days to go before the 1st of October the numbers will be lower day by day and the recoveries will go up and up.. On the first October only maybe 1000 - 1500 cases a day and open the country......Which numbers can be trusted anyway..... If you check on Covidvax Thailand even there are the numbers not correct .They claim 26.975.000 people vaccinated and 12.040.000 fully vaccinated.. and the total is 39.625.000. But when I calculate there are 600.000 less 12 mill and 26,9 mill  is 38,9 million and who are the lost 600.000???

20 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Yes sure.... only 13.800 about in the general people tested are positive in Covid.. With 18 days to go before the 1st of October the numbers will be lower day by day and the recoveries will go up and up.. On the first October only maybe 1000 - 1500 cases a day and open the country......Which numbers can be trusted anyway..... If you check on Covidvax Thailand even there are the numbers not correct .They claim 26.975.000 people vaccinated and 12.040.000 fully vaccinated.. and the total is 39.625.000. But when I calculate there are 600.000 less 12 mill and 26,9 mill  is 38,9 million and who are the lost 600.000???

Thats the problem with using unofficial trackers but here's another that is far more accurate, developed, coded and data extracted by a local Thai, it gets its data directly from source and he even has a filtered section for the top Provinces vaccination levels, it also includes the important 3 doses and separates the them out unlike the other one.

https://covidtracker-th.netlify.app/

3 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

As of Friday, the government had administered 39.63 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, with more than 17 percent of the whole population having been fully vaccinated.

A lot of catching up to do.

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

Yes sure.... only 13.800 about in the general people tested are positive in Covid.. With 18 days to go before the 1st of October the numbers will be lower day by day and the recoveries will go up and up.. On the first October only maybe 1000 - 1500 cases a day and open the country......Which numbers can be trusted anyway..... If you check on Covidvax Thailand even there are the numbers not correct .They claim 26.975.000 people vaccinated and 12.040.000 fully vaccinated.. and the total is 39.625.000. But when I calculate there are 600.000 less 12 mill and 26,9 mill  is 38,9 million and who are the lost 600.000???

Possibly those who have been given a booster.....just a thought.

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1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

Yes sure.... only 13.800 about in the general people tested are positive in Covid.. With 18 days to go before the 1st of October the numbers will be lower day by day and the recoveries will go up and up.. On the first October only maybe 1000 - 1500 cases a day and open the country......Which numbers can be trusted anyway..... If you check on Covidvax Thailand even there are the numbers not correct .They claim 26.975.000 people vaccinated and 12.040.000 fully vaccinated.. and the total is 39.625.000. But when I calculate there are 600.000 less 12 mill and 26,9 mill  is 38,9 million and who are the lost 600.000???

Probably due to those front line workers who have had their third jab. 
 

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

DDC reveals data on fatalities, adverse effects from vaccination

 

There have been more than 600 fatalities after administering over 35 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40006026

2 minutes ago, anchadian said:

DDC reveals data on fatalities, adverse effects from vaccination

 

There have been more than 600 fatalities after administering over 35 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40006026

Mistake on this statement perhaps? 38 fatalities from just 791 people receiving the cocktail seems very high?

 

"Out of 791 people who received Sinovac as the first shot and AstraZeneca as the second shot, a total of 38 fatality cases was reported. Three of the cases were irrelevant to the vaccines, three cases were inconclusive while information is still being gathered in 32 cases."

According to Bangkok Hospital in Hua Hin, due to a number of no-shows for vaccination appointments, they have just opened a standby waiting list for those who want to get Pfizer for their first shot for free https://form.jotform.com/212500597408454 Good luck! #Thailand

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1436921356055056390

 

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Interesting to see the CFR for each Province at https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/index.php?dashboard=province from 1st April

 

Bangkok = 1.60% 

Samut Prakan = 1,05%

Chonburi = 0.67%

Khon Kean = 0.36%

Phuket = 0.58% despite being the most vaxxed Province? Creeping up again since another 2 deaths yesterday.

Thank you which is why I am staying-safe in Khon Kaen with no need for exhortations to do so.

Japan:  Around 120,000 tests per day.  Two weeks ago 20,000+ cases, now below 10,000.  No lockdown & kids at school.  

 

Looks like a high for a Saturday

 

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

DAY 91: 325,218 <— Sunday

DAY 92: 722,377

DAY 93: 826,013

DAY 94: 713,454

DAY 95: 698,621

DAY 96: 758,503

DAY 97: 428,605 <— Saturday

 

TOTAL: 40,060,467 doses since 28 February

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436937608915931141

Today there were 180 deaths in #Thailand

 

101 males & 79 females

Burmese (4), Chinese (1)

Median age 70 (15 months-108 years)

Most deaths in Bangkok (67)

73% of deaths aged 60+

1 pregnant woman died

1 person died at home

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1436935872536932355