COVID-19: Thailand reports 10,288 new coronavirus cases and 12,494 recoveries

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Thailand on Monday (September 27) reported 10,288 new COVID-19 cases, 12,494 recoveries and 101 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.

 

◼︎ 12,494 recoveries

◼︎ 10,161 new infections 

◼︎ 127 prison / prison infections

 

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 1,543,063

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,407,975

 

Monday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,571,926 with 16,369 deaths.

 

The news comes as the Ministry of Public Health has revealed that Thailand’s vaccine stockpile will top 125 million doses by the end of the year as vaccination picks up pace across all segments of the population.

 

Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said security of vaccine supply and a steady rate of vaccinations were essential for restarting the economy.

 

The nationwide inoculation drive is speeding up as more vaccine arrives and the rollout will be accelerated to cover all population segments so the country can return to normality.

 

He said the first shots now covered 44.45% of the population and 57.44% of the target groups.

 

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[Bkk Brian]

PCR test positive cases, total of 10,288 official new infections, with just 127 of those from prison and 10,161 from the community. 101 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,306 bringing the unofficial total to 12,594

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 25th Sept) which includes prison cases and bar chart of community cases from daily official announcements.

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

[Bkk Brian]

#COVID19 on Monday: 10,288 cases (127 from prison) 101 deaths 12,494 released from care 

High for cases: 23,418 on 13 Aug

High for deaths: 312 on 18 Aug

High for recoveries: 23,672 on 14 Aug 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442289453465100291

 

[Bkk Brian]

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 587 new cases today and 6 deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (218), Si Racha (136), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (91). There are 11,862 patients in care 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442273005262966795

 

[Bkk Brian]

Phuket health authorities are reporting 193 new local cases , zero cases from the Sandbox and two deaths. There are 4,277 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 109 cases since 1st July

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442273203880022021

 

[ThailandRyan]

Pray tell what they will do with a stockpile of 125 million doses of vaccine at the end of the year if as he has said before that the country will be 70% vaccinated by the end if the year.  Just what vaccines will be in the stockpile and will they all be given using the very new and still not officially approved intradermal injection method. 

 

Happy to see the numbers of cases and total deaths are decreasing, but it would be nice to know how many were actually tested.

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

Southeast Asia saw an increase in Covid-19 cases on Sunday but a lower number of deaths compared to Saturday, collated data showed. 

https://twitter.com/Thenationth/status/1442297972931194884

 

[Macrohistory]

Semi-lockdowns clearly work very, very well in the context of a steadily increasing vaccination rate.  Let's hope the authorities keep the pressure on until the virus is driven into the ground.  Don't listen to the COVID deniers who want to throw all the progress away just so they can go sit on a barstool somewhere.  No let-up until the situation is well and truly under control and the population is safe from death by suffocation and horrible disease.

 

[dinsdale]

18 minutes ago, Macrohistory said:

Semi-lockdowns clearly work very, very well in the context of a steadily increasing vaccination rate.  Let's hope the authorities keep the pressure on until the virus is driven into the ground.  Don't listen to the COVID deniers who want to throw all the progress away just so they can go sit on a barstool somewhere.  No let-up until the situation is well and truly under control and the population is safe from death by suffocation and horrible disease.

 

Went to Lotus or should I say Lotuseseseses yesterday. It was very busy. The only visable sign where I am of a lockdown now is the curfew and of course no sitting in a restaurant enjoying a beer with the meal.

[Willy333]

32 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Pray tell what they will do with a stockpile of 125 million doses of vaccine at the end of the year if as he has said before that the country will be 70% vaccinated by the end if the year.  Just what vaccines will be in the stockpile and will they all be given using the very new and still not officially approved intradermal injection method. 

 

Happy to see the numbers of cases and total deaths are decreasing, but it would be nice to know how many were actually tested.

 

 

Unless I’m missing something, you can calculate the number of tests using the positivity rate.

Positive cases / positivity rate = tests

Today would be 76719 tests.

[DrJack54]

No good reason for ban on serving alcohol. Curfew 9pm in place.

Your typical bar, if open today would be far less crowded than my Big C and many other places for that matter.

The owners of those businesses and employees need to see some small glimmer of hope. 

 

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Phuket health authorities are reporting 193 new local cases , zero cases from the Sandbox and two deaths. There are 4,277 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 109 cases since 1st July

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442273203880022021

 

CFR now for Phuket is 0.71% which seems a little high considering the high vaccination rate, or perhaps another reason could be an under count in actual covid positive cases?

 

More details on yesterdays stats here 

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-193-new-covid-cases-two-more-deaths-81523.php

[Pravda]

Everything is going according to plan

[smedly]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The news comes as the Ministry of Public Health has revealed that Thailand’s vaccine stockpile will top 125 million doses by the end of the year

you don't need stockpiles you need effective vaccines in arms, it serves no purpose sitting in a box doing nothing 

[Bkk Brian]

UPDATE: 10,288 confirmed cases, 2,306 probable cases, and 101 deaths (1.04%). Out of 120,156 patients , 33,759 are in hospital, 65,469 in ‘hospitel’ and 14,966 in home/community isolation. 3,341 in a serious condition (+17) with 728 on ventilators (+4)

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442307006732201984

 

[ThailandRyan]

34 minutes ago, Willy333 said:

Unless I’m missing something, you can calculate the number of tests using the positivity rate.

Positive cases / positivity rate = tests

Today would be 76719 tests.

Where did you come up with your positivity rate you used to calculate your tests given?  Did you just pull that 13% +/-  out of thin air or what?...

[hackjam]

Thats a steady decline for the past few weeks, so good news.

I have no issues with the 9pm curfew, and even if bars were open, would be no big deal, just head out early if needing a good skinfull.

With the numbers falling, surely they can give something-Massage and spas to fully operate, booze with outdoor dining, for example, sort of like a controlled opening, see how that goes???

Jomtiem was busy this weekend, lots of Thais came to the beach, was good to see places busy, most were just boozing on the roadside/back of pick up trucks, as the would do normally.

 

[Bkk Brian]

40 minutes ago, Willy333 said:

Unless I’m missing something, you can calculate the number of tests using the positivity rate.

Positive cases / positivity rate = tests

Today would be 76719 tests.

That sounds logical but Thailand's stats are not always logical, before they changed the format to now be the positivity rate and we do not know where they take that from, it was always the number of tests that were shown but they stopped showing these 2 or 3 weeks ago. At the time they were doing around 40k tests daily and the graph was decreasing showing a steady decline on the number of tests daily.

 

However you can still get the testing figures here, last data point was around 37k per day but on the 7 day rolling average its around 50k

 

https://djay.github.io/covidthailand/#testing

[smedly]

37 minutes ago, Willy333 said:

Unless I’m missing something, you can calculate the number of tests using the positivity rate.

Positive cases / positivity rate = tests

Today would be 76719 tests.

what ?, let me throw this in there for you

 

when Thailand was testing 60k a day the positivity rate was about 25%

so based on that you can work out the number of tests not the other way round, they stopped reporting test numbers a while back I wonder why

[brewsterbudgen]

14 minutes ago, hackjam said:

Thats a steady decline for the past few weeks, so good news.

I have no issues with the 9pm curfew, and even if bars were open, would be no big deal, just head out early if needing a good skinfull.

With the numbers falling, surely they can give something-Massage and spas to fully operate, booze with outdoor dining, for example, sort of like a controlled opening, see how that goes???

Jomtiem was busy this weekend, lots of Thais came to the beach, was good to see places busy, most were just boozing on the roadside/back of pick up trucks, as the would do normally.

 

Hopefully more announcements about relaxing the restrictions will come out later today. I'm not too hopeful, but something positive about reopening schools next month would be good.????

[Bkk Brian]

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#Thailand to receive 122,400 doses of AstraZeneca’s #COVID19 vaccine, 200k test kits and 500k of nasal swab kits from #Singapore, following a meeting between Thai Public Health Min Anutin and Kevin Cheok, SG Ambassador to Thailand.

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1442317015658553344

 

[Bkk Brian]

Starting from 1st October, domestic tourists to Phuket must be vaccinated or recovered from Covid-19, AND they must do a Covid-free test no more than 7 days in advance. Full details: https://thainewsreports.com/2021/09/24/rules-for-going-to-phuket-from-1st-october-2021 #Thailand

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442316825811775488

 

[Bkk Brian]

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https://twitter.com/ThaiPBSWorld/status/1442315267598524419

 

[brewsterbudgen]

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Starting from 1st October, domestic tourists to Phuket must be vaccinated or recovered from Covid-19, AND they must do a Covid-free test no more than 7 days in advance. Full details: https://thainewsreports.com/2021/09/24/rules-for-going-to-phuket-from-1st-october-2021 #Thailand

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442316825811775488

 

Good to see that one dose of AZ is accepted. But I can't see many domestic tourists wanting to go through all this. Easier just to go to Hua Hin or Pattaya.

[JonnyF]

28 minutes ago, smedly said:

you don't need stockpiles you need effective vaccines in arms, it serves no purpose sitting in a box doing nothing 

It serves many million purposes for the minister who cut the deal to purchase them all, especially if the deal was with the CCP.

[Why Me]

I hope they shorten the curfew hrs. to 11-4. That will still discourage the drunken late-night gatherings they are afraid of while allowing some more late evening economic activity (restaurants, alcohol till 10, malls till 9).

[ThailandRyan]

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Starting from 1st October, domestic tourists to Phuket must be vaccinated or recovered from Covid-19, AND they must do a Covid-free test no more than 7 days in advance. Full details: https://thainewsreports.com/2021/09/24/rules-for-going-to-phuket-from-1st-october-2021 #Thailand

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1442316825811775488

 

So now that the GF has been Vaccinated with her 1 jab we can head to Phuket after we take a Covid Test.  Using the Mor Phrom App for showing the Vaccination and the test being done I would surmise would be acceptable at the bridge, but then not sure how else you could show it unless you carried your Certificate and then the vaccination appointment schedule for the second vaccine as well as the e-mail from the testing provider.  STill a cluster in my book.

[metisdead]

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[dinsdale]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He said the first shots now covered 44.45% of the population and 57.44% of the target groups.

Being that most countries are looking at or opening at around 70-80% fully vaccinated what is Thailand going to do. As of Sept. 22nd fully vaccinated was at 22.73%. Open in November with 70-80% fully vaccinated seems unlikely. Even at these rates experts are warning that caution must be taken.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

 

[Petey11]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

what ?, let me throw this in there for you

 

when Thailand was testing 60k a day the positivity rate was about 25%

so based on that you can work out the number of tests not the other way round, they stopped reporting test numbers a while back I wonder why

I also noticed Chonburi stopped listing the number of tests carried out now too. They used to report contact and proactive numbers.