1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Rapid tests positive cases, 3,117 bringing the unofficial total to 17,286

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

Doesn't it work that all people testing postive with a rapid test then get a PCR test to confirm?

 

This would mean todays rapid tests you count here would have the postive PCR counted in the total of tomorrow or next day (so double counting)

2 minutes ago, aussiexpat said:

Doesn't it work that all people testing postive with a rapid test then get a PCR test to confirm?

 

This would mean todays rapid tests you count here would have the postive PCR counted in the total of tomorrow or next day (so double counting)

No it does not work like that, rapid tests only count if they are followed up with a PCR tests and that only happens if the patient is admitted to a hospital, those who isolate at home and in community centers do not take a PCR. Even if they are admitted on mass into quarantine they are still not PCR tested. A good example of that is over 3000 rapid test positives went into quarantine together from a chicken factory and never had PCR tests.

3 hours ago, anchadian said:

Phuket health authorities are reporting 235 new local cases , zero cases from the Sandbox and no deaths. There are 3,663 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 95 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439022458091151361

Further details:

https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/phuket-covid-19-235-daily-infections-238-hospital-beds-available

3 hours ago, aussiexpat said:

If country is in lockdown for months, if it worked, why aren't the numbers coming down

 

It's no different in hotspots of Sydney and Melbourne, heavy lockdown for months but cases stay consistent. Haven't they proved elsewhere that lockdowns don't work?

Lockdowns work as a broad sword method of capping and then bringing down infection rates to reasonable levels.

 

They don't prevent sporadic surges, which happen as soon as lockdown ends.

 

Australia went for eradication, which was ok until the Delta variant came along.

3 hours ago, anchadian said:

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 848 new cases today and 6 deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (222), Si Racha (193), Bang Lamung/Pattaya (128), and Sattahip (86). There are 13,593 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439022282387591172

Further details:

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/09/18/chonburi-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-drop-to-848-with-6-deaths/

Wat Ko Suwannaram in Bangkok's Sai Mai district held a religious ceremony for cremated remains of 18 unidentified coronavirus victims. This temple has cremated more than 200 individuals who died from the virus since the pandemic began.

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1439093843320709121

 

Off topic posts and replies about the UK and Denmark have been removed as this topic is about:

 

Thailand reports 14,109 new COVID-19 cases, 13,280 recoveries and 122 deaths

3 hours ago, anchadian said:

UPDATE: 14,109 confirmed cases, 3,117 probable cases, and 122 deaths (1.04%). Out of 130,280 patients , 45,271 are in hospital, 65,736 in ‘hospitel’ and 12,650 in home/community isolation. 3,701 in a serious condition (-150) with 760 on ventilators (-27) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439053010567512066

The thing with ATK testing is how many are doing this at home and are not reporting positives. Along with this are false negatives where someone might be symptomatic, gets a negative result because of the testing equipment or incorrect use and think they're fine. Having said this ICU and ventilator numbers are coming down as are deaths. I wonder if they have reclassified what counts as a covid death. They reclassified recovered so it's a possibility. One can also see that there were 1,357 community tests. For a country of 70 million this is just incredible. UK is doing 1,00,000 a day.

40 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Wat Ko Suwannaram in Bangkok's Sai Mai district held a religious ceremony for cremated remains of 18 unidentified coronavirus victims. This temple has cremated more than 200 individuals who died from the virus since the pandemic began.

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1439093843320709121

 

Wonder if those victims went into the official stats. Reminds me of the Forensic Doctor in Bangkok reporting deaths from covid that were not classified in the stats

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

DAY 97: 428,605 <— Saturday

DAY 98: 215,889 <— Sunday

DAY 99: 676,669

DAY 100: 694,076

DAY 101: 830,413

DAY 102: 864,589

DAY 103: 547,324

 

TOTAL: 43,889,427 doses since 28 February

 

20.3% of population is vaccinated

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439104349058125825

Today there were 122 deaths in #Thailand

 

70 males & 52 females

Burmese (4)

Age range is 34-91 years

68% of deaths aged 60+

Most deaths in Bangkok (23)

1 person died at home

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439105381502914562

The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has revealed that the goals for vaccination service in October 2021 is to inoculate at least 50% of the population in each province, fully vaccinate the public, extend the vaccination to people who are aged 12 years old and above, give a booster dose to those who received two doses of Sinovac, and vaccinate people in the essential economic zones and control the spread of virus in those areas.

 

https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/posts/4628020843887960

Out of 13,249 local cases (not in prisons) Bangkok 2,843 Samut Prakan 1,018 Chonburi 848 Yala 477 Narathiwat 476 Rayong 414 Nonthaburi 399 Prachinburi 385 Ratchaburi 378 Songkhla 370

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439106521359519748

Map of #Thailand for weeks 33-37. Red shows you the provinces that had more than 1,000 cases in one week. As you can see, there’s a big improvement in many areas, apart from in the central and southern regions.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439108564916736002

 

12 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

The thing with ATK testing is how many are doing this at home and are not reporting positives. Along with this are false negatives where someone might be symptomatic, gets a negative result because of the testing equipment or incorrect use and think they're fine. Having said this ICU and ventilator numbers are coming down as are deaths. I wonder if they have reclassified what counts as a covid death. They reclassified recovered so it's a possibility. One can also see that there were 1,357 community tests. For a country of 70 million this is just incredible. UK is doing 1,00,000 a day.

Someone thinks this post is funny. Maybe they can say why? 1,000,000 tests all up in the UK in one day and now we don't know how many tests in Thailand because they changed that to % of positives to tests but do show only 1,357 community tests in one day. I'm not sure what's funny about this. As for reclassification we know this happened for recovered. They said it themselves. People are being sent home still needing care so not recovered. As for deaths I'm posing a question. Has this been reclassified? Can't see anything here that warrants the laughing emoji. 

3 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Someone thinks this post is funny. Maybe they can say why? 1,000,000 tests all up in the UK in one day and now we don't know how many tests in Thailand because they changed that to % of positives to tests but do show only 1,357 community tests in one day. I'm not sure what's funny about this. As for reclassification we know this happened for recovered. They said it themselves. People are being sent home still needing care so not recovered. As for deaths I'm posing a question. Has this been reclassified? Can't see anything here that warrants the laughing emoji. 

Oh dear.

12 minutes ago, Olmate said:

Oh dear.

Please elucidate.

34 minutes ago, anchadian said:

The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has revealed that the goals for vaccination service in October 2021 is to inoculate at least 50% of the population in each province, fully vaccinate the public, extend the vaccination to people who are aged 12 years old and above, give a booster dose to those who received two doses of Sinovac, and vaccinate people in the essential economic zones and control the spread of virus in those areas.

 

https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/posts/4628020843887960

Vaccinations by Province

 

Full list of all provinces vaccination details first, second and third dose. This tracker was last updated on the 16th so there is a little more to add to these.

 

Link will take you to the full list https://covidtracker-th.netlify.app/

 

 

17 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Someone thinks this post is funny. Maybe they can say why? 1,000,000 tests all up in the UK in one day and now we don't know how many tests in Thailand because they changed that to % of positives to tests but do show only 1,357 community tests in one day. I'm not sure what's funny about this. As for reclassification we know this happened for recovered. They said it themselves. People are being sent home still needing care so not recovered. As for deaths I'm posing a question. Has this been reclassified? Can't see anything here that warrants the laughing emoji. 

I will reply as you insist on making such a big deal and getting emotional over a laughing emoji:

You posted:

 

“Having said this ICU and ventilator numbers are coming down as are deaths. I wonder if they have reclassified what counts as a covid death. They reclassified recovered so it's a possibility”

 

Your desperation to try and now question the death numbers declared, even when the number of cases, ICU and ventilator numbers are dropping is what I find amusing.

 

 People that can be so negative about good news I find amusing.

 People that get so emotional over a (laughing) emoji I also find amusing  but as you’re so sensitive to them I’ll refrain from giving you another one on this post. 
 

There are many more things I find amusing so if you want a full list please don’t hesitate to ask 
 

Hope that explains things for you and you fully recover from the laughing emoji. 
 

Now back on topic please. 

4 minutes ago, sucit said:

That is not Israel specific. The numbers are like that everywhere dude. It’s not my problems people have overreacted and caused you to believe otherwise. Here’s Sweden. You pick the country and figure it out yourself. Others have already tried to do it for you and that don’t work… you just stare at the increasing death number on the 8 o’clock news. https://twitter.com/OS51388957/status/1428373303626973187?s=20

No they're not dude, this is Thailand and the numbers are very different. 5 year average versus the top line, ie 2021, huge jump in unaccounted deaths

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

Weekly trends in death numbers for Thailand according to the worldometer ranking:

 

Thailand 60th in world in deaths/million of population, down from 56th yesterday

 

Thailand 13th in Asia in deaths/million of population, down 22%

Chumphon launches Covid-19 testing for Thai and migrant fishermen

 

The public health office in Chumphon province on Friday launched a campaign among fishing boat workers at the pier in Pak Nam subdistrict to find Covid-19 cases.

 

“The campaign is in collaboration with entrepreneurs in the fishing industry, who helped donate money to buy antigen test kits for fishing boat workers, both Thais and migrants,” said Chumphon Governor Theera Anantaseriwitthaya.

 

“Those who test positive will be immediately isolated to prevent cluster cases. Workers who still have symptoms after completing their quarantine will be sent to hospitals in the province for treatment.”

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40006317

Some off topic posts and replies about Israel have been removed, also a personal attack.

 

Thailand reports 14,109 new COVID-19 cases, 13,280 recoveries and 122 deaths

Phuket opens special clinic to deal with Covid cases

 

Phuket on Friday opened “Clinic Oon Jai”, an all-in-one centre, to manage Covid-19 patients.

 

The Ministry of Public Health has suggested three measures for Phuket, which are organising rapid response teams, control teams to prevent clusters, and establish “Clinic Oon Jai”.

 

The ministry said that these measures must be implemented in two weeks, or by the end of this month. The clinic will receive patients with antigen test results (ATK) or with results from clinics and labs.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40006330

Good news from Phuket:

 

“Phuket Covid-19 numbers held steady today with no deaths and 235 new infections, though that’s only 3 less than the total available hospital beds as 39 more people were hospitalised.

Hospital bed occupancy is just below 89% now, though Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew has insisted there is no shortage of beds. The number of “green” mild infections continues the drop that started a few days ago that has almost halved the green patients in hospital facilities, perhaps due to more home quarantines and community isolation centres.”

 

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/phuket-covid-19-235-daily-infections-238-hospital-beds-available

6 hours ago, aussiexpat said:

If country is in lockdown for months, if it worked, why aren't the numbers coming down

 

It's no different in hotspots of Sydney and Melbourne, heavy lockdown for months but cases stay consistent. Haven't they proved elsewhere that lockdowns don't work?

Numbers did come down to about half they were in early August to early September, but now, good 2 weeks after the dark red zones loosened restrictions, of course numbers are starting to pick up again.

good to see a death number below 150.  we had a couple 300+ days a few weeks ago.  the 7 day daily average topped out a bit above 250 and stayed there for almost two weeks.  but now we've had several sub 200 numbers and a few sub 150's.  the 7 day avg is about 170 now.  hope the declines keep coming our way and we get a chance to open things up and see what comes next !!

6 hours ago, anchadian said:

UPDATE: 14,109 confirmed cases, 3,117 probable cases, and 122 deaths (1.04%). Out of 130,280 patients , 45,271 are in hospital, 65,736 in ‘hospitel’ and 12,650 in home/community isolation. 3,701 in a serious condition (-150) with 760 on ventilators (-27) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1439053010567512066

There are only 854 Prison Infections published here on MOPH daily report charts.

Yesterday there was an outbreak in some Young Offenders facility where 1, 190+ were tested as positive.

That Facility they have just decided to turn into a Field Hospital instead of a Prison, and with over 3400 Inmates in total, the number of Infected will not drop for sure.

Yet ! there is no mention of these figure on the chart

It would appear as if the Prisons are again being neglected for testing and reporting, but with the National number of Prison Infections being at 65,561 ( ref Chart ) that is something close to about 20 % of all Inmates locked away in the Jails of Thailand.

Very high numbers for an Organization that declared the situation was under complete control

Decent interview in English with CCSA spokesman on the continued negotiations with other countries on vaccine swaps and medical supplies for this ongoing pandemic here.

 

"in talks to source more vaccines and medical supplies, including through “Vaccine Swap”. Newsline’s Cholaphansa Narula talks to @MFAThai Deputy Spokesperson

@NatapanuN regarding process of procuring vaccine & medical supplies"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qt6kHlYeqY

 

 

 

Trolling comments and responses removed.

 

Also derogatory terminology.