COVID-19: Coronavirus cases in Thailand drop for the fifth consecutive day

[edwinchester]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Cases of those tested seem to be going down a little bit every day.  The issue is those still hospitalized and on ventilators as well as those at home waiting for a bed for treatment.  Vaccinations seem to be kicking up, and it seems that the Government wants to try and do 1 million tests on this upcoming Friday, which if they can pull off show that anything is possible.  My question is this "In order to do the 1 million do they actually have the doses available or are they going to move into the new under the skin vaccination procedure to save vaccine as another OP running now indicates.  I have yet to see any real world studies on the use of an under the skin vaccination vs. an intramuscular injection.  The issue obviously is that the studies done for each vaccine were on actual injections and not under the skin.  Lets hope that those who are vaccinated starting with this new plan do not have any issues and the vaccine is taken up by the system and does not stay as a lump under the skin.  Finally obtained a vaccination appointment for my GF, and verified it with her doctors as being ok, good to go.  Waiting to see how the rules may change as well for travel with the vaccination and continued testing when one arrives at their destination.  Seems that even being double vaccinated is not good enough, but why international travelers are treated differently form those of us living in the country is a true inequality.  Stay safe folks and continue to be vigilant wherever you may be.

Re the 1 million dose show scheduled for Friday, my appointment for a shot yesterday was cancelled and I was asked to instead show up on Friday. Many others at the same hospital also had their appointments rearranged for Friday. The whole exercise is meaningless if shots are just being cancelled on one day to boost the numbers on another.

[Danderman123]

1 hour ago, sapson said:

 

Is Asean now infected with the inability to publish the total figures released by ignoring 6,593 positive antigen tests?, extremely misleading to the readership.

 

I quote and thanks to Bkk Brian with the actual totals available.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 6,593 bringing the unofficial total to 17,512

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

Anyone with a positive Rapid test should subsequently get tested by RT-PCR and be counted again.

Edited September 21, 2021 by Danderman123

[sapson]

38 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

Anyone with a positive Rapid test should subsequently get tested by RT-PCR and be counted again.

Their are many shoulds in Thailand that are clearly not becoming haves.

 

The antigen tests are much more likely false negative than false positive and to ignore the numbers in daily figures is ridiculous.

[candide]

Number of deaths from all causes numbers have been released for August: 57,125, which is 16,126 more than in 2020.

For the same period (August), Worldometers  indicates 6,599 Covid-19 deaths, so there's around 10,000 unexplained excess deaths in August.

Ahem!

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

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/

[Danderman123]

3 minutes ago, candide said:

Number of deaths from all causes numbers have been released for August: 57,125, which is 16,126 more than in 2020.

For the same period (August), Worldometers  indicates 6,599 Covid-19 deaths, so there's around 10,000 unexplained excess deaths in August.

Ahem!

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

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/

Excess mortality figures that are so recent are probably wildly inaccurate. 

[Tropicalevo]

4 hours ago, anchadian said:

The seven day averages since the start of the present wave on 1st April. Today saw the lowest new cases count since 17th July 

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1440119061556326400

Not if you include the ATK test results. There are more than 7,000 of them today.

 

the government is fudging the numbers. Only 'happy happy' news allowed!

[hackjam]

2 hours ago, relax33 said:

Had to re-check to confirm that Chile is indeed having less than 300 covid cases daily now with 83% of the pop fully vacc with 2 shots n with 90% of the vaccs being Chinese ones
Singapore is 75% fully vacc with 99% of it being Pfizer n Moderna but is having 1000 covid cases daily now  ... so what gives ...

Now that is interesting.

Is there a certain amount of snobbery attached to anything made in China??

[CharlieH]

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[anchadian]

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

DAY 100: 694,076

DAY 101: 830,413

DAY 102: 864,589

DAY 103: 547,324

DAY 104: 596,230 <— Sat

DAY 105: 256,392 <— Sun

DAY 106: 469,052

 

TOTAL: 45,211,101 doses since 28 February

 

21.4% of the population is vaccinated

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1440192004378415115

[Bkk Brian]

41 minutes ago, candide said:

Number of deaths from all causes numbers have been released for August: 57,125, which is 16,126 more than in 2020.

For the same period (August), Worldometers  indicates 6,599 Covid-19 deaths, so there's around 10,000 unexplained excess deaths in August.

Ahem!

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

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/thailand/

That’s a huge spike compared to the previous 5 years.

[anchadian]

5 hours ago, anchadian said:

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 629 new cases today and 6 deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (185), Si Racha (91), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (112). There are 13,308 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1440106786229346313

Further details:

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/09/21/chonburi-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-slightly-rise-to-629-with-6-new-deaths/

[anchadian]

Bangkok Pattaya hospital this morning- Pfizer jab

 

Walk in quota reached at 1300 hrs. All full. People everywhere.

https://twitter.com/MangoTa26290041/status/1440194683985039362

Edited September 21, 2021 by anchadian

[Kadilo]

6 minutes ago, hackjam said:

Now that is interesting.

Is there a certain amount of snobbery attached to anything made in China??

There seems to be a lot of misleading “descriptions” regarding the Sinovac vaccine around the forums and a lot of people “who know a lot of Thais who are refusing it” but the vaccination numbers and reports of the queues for it suggest differently. 
 

Whether it’s anti Chinese snobbery or something else,  fact is it’s not the best, but it’s still effective. 

Edited September 21, 2021 by Kadilo

[Danderman123]

21 minutes ago, Tropicalevo said:

Not if you include the ATK test results. There are more than 7,000 of them today.

 

the government is fudging the numbers. Only 'happy happy' news allowed!

How you explain the smaller number of patients in hospitals? 

[Bkk Brian]

Thai kids can get either Pfizer or inactivated vaccine, says govt

The authorities said on Monday that parents can opt for their children to receive an inactivated Covid-19 jab instead of the mRNA Pfizer vaccine. Thai kids can get either Pfizer or inactivated vaccine, says govt

Deputy government spokesperson Trisulee Trisaranakul said children are scheduled to get a Pfizer jab in the first phase and inactivated vaccines in later phases. However, she said, parents can opt for their children to get an inactivated vaccine in the first phase if they want.

The government aims to have 4.5 million students aged 12 to 17 inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine if permitted by parents.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40006439

[anchadian]

Today there were 143 deaths in #Thailand 82 males & 61 females Burmese (5), Lao (2), Japanese (1), American (1) Age range is 17-93 years 71% of deaths aged 60+ Most deaths in Bangkok (40)

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1440192780622467082

 

[Danderman123]

9 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

That’s a huge spike compared to the previous 5 years.

But the excess mortality data is so recent that it might not be accurate. Usually, this data needs a few months of work before it is finalized. 

[anchadian]

Out of 10,490 local cases (not in prisons) Bangkok 2,561 Samut Prakan 858 Chonburi 629 Narathiwat 379 Ratchaburi 361 Yala 284 Nonthaburi 280 Rayong 272 Songkhla 267 Samut Sakhon 237 #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1440194107360481287

 

[anchadian]

From the confirmed cases: - 9,846 were found via walk-in tests at medical facilities - 1,066 via proactive tests at known clusters - 7 imported cases 11,694 people have recovered in the past 24 hours #โควิด #โควิดวันนี้ #โควิด19 #โควิด19วันนี้ #Thailand #Covid19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1440188373214265355

[Bkk Brian]

14 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

But the excess mortality data is so recent that it might not be accurate. Usually, this data needs a few months of work before it is finalized. 

That data sources are contained in the link and this is a data point that will always remain.

 

They get their data directly from Thailand’s own DOPH

Edited September 21, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[candide]

1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:

Excess mortality figures that are so recent are probably wildly inaccurate. 

(1) The number of deaths from all causes is very easy to calculate, as it doesn't need any identification of causes (unlike calculating the number of Covid-19 deaths). Just count the number of death certificates. All deaths are recorded by the administration, except the few which remain undeclared. 

 

(2) Actually, the main source of innacuracy is that there may be a delay between the death date and the recording date by the administration. However, possible delays cannot result in such a large gap between Covid-19 deaths and deaths from all causes. Additionally, if you check the trend, significant excess deaths numbers started to be observable from May (and always much higher than Covid-19 deaths). August numbers may include deaths which occurred in July, but July was already showing a large number of excess deaths (much more than covid-19 deaths).

Edited September 21, 2021 by candide

[DavisH]

29 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

How you explain the smaller number of patients in hospitals? 

Reduced serious cases and those on ventilators as well. 

[Danderman123]

Just now, DavisH said:

Reduced serious cases and those on ventilators as well. 

How do you explain the reduced numbers of such patients if the number of new cases isn't declining? 

[Kadilo]

5 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

More positive rapid tests and low number of PCR tests is more than 17.000 and more than yesterday. So number of cases are rising because recoveries are only 11694... Why saying drop for the fifth consecutive day???? 

Because the official government numbers of cases are dropping, along with the number of people with serious illness and on ventilators so a positive message. 
 

If you want to look at the weekly trend for death rates over the past 7 days, Thailand stands at 14 people/million of population, 172nd in the world rankings on the worldometer table, 41st in Asia, down 33%. 

Again, a drop in the ranking and overall a positive message. 

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/

 

Edited September 21, 2021 by Kadilo

[Bkk Brian]

Thailand ranks second in ASEAN for most COVID-19 jabs, sixth for two-dose percentage

Thailand is ranked second to Indonesia among ASEAN member countries for the number of COVID-19 inoculations, with a total of 44,742,049 doses administered by September 20th, but ranks fifth for the percentage of population receiving first doses, and sixth for the percentage of people receiving two doses.

According to statistics, compiled by the Thai Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovations, the ten ASEAN countries which have administered the most vaccine in terms of first-dose vaccinations per population are as follows:

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-ranks-second-in-asean-for-most-covid-19-jabs-sixth-for-two-dose-percentage/

[Danderman123]

There is a global trend of lessening infections. 

 

Perhaps vaccines are curbing the spread, or people are just being more careful. 

 

Or perhaps there is some large fraction of the population with prior immunity to Covid. I don't know why Delta seems to be waning. 

[Bkk Brian]

11 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

There is a global trend of lessening infections. 

 

Perhaps vaccines are curbing the spread, or people are just being more careful. 

 

Or perhaps there is some large fraction of the population with prior immunity to Covid. I don't know why Delta seems to be waning. 

I would say all the above plus the current measures in place

[sapson]

48 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

How you explain the smaller number of patients in hospitals? 

Its no longer a mandatory requirement to be hospitalized if testing positive, this is reserved for those who urgently need medical care and or are willing to to be in hospital surrounded by other covid patients with little separation.

 

If you use a antigen kit at home you dont have to report the results or go to hospital unless willing.

[crazykopite]

I would like to believe it but I have doubts over the administrations transparency after all its October in 9 days time when the country is meant to open up to the rest of the world

[hotchilli]

And I'm sure it will keep dropping in line with all the news of opening up the country materialises.