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Thailand on Monday (October 11) reported 10,035 new COVID-19 cases, 10,590 recoveries and 60 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

◼︎ 10,590 recoveries

◼︎ 9,955 new infections 

◼︎ 80 prison / prison infections

 

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 1,692,056

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,565,477

 

Monday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,720,919 with 17,751 deaths.

 

The news comes as the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) has warned Thai people not to lower their guard, noting that COVID-19 infections in Thailand are not declining, as widely misunderstood. On the contrary, are increasing, averaging over 20,000 cases a day.

 

In its Facebook post yesterday (Sunday), the RDS says “please pay attention and be on the alert” as it pointed out at the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has shown two figures for new infections yesterday (Sunday), from different testing methods –  10,817 cases from RT-PCR tests and 10,055 cases from antigen tests.

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PCR test positive cases, total of 10,035 official new infections, with 80 of those from prison and 9,955 from the community. 60 official covid deaths recorded.  

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,263 bringing the unofficial total to 12,298

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

 

Last 7  days Ventilator Capacity:

05/10/21 = 701

06/10/21 = 720

07/10/21 = 715

08/10/21 = 682

09/10/21 = 677

10/10/21 = 689

10/10/21 = 680

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

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

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

The news comes as the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) has warned Thai people not to lower their guard, noting that COVID-19 infections in Thailand are not declining, as widely misunderstood. On the contrary, are increasing, averaging over 20,000 cases a day.

It is nice to see that the RDS is also including the ATK test positives in their view as a case of Covid and not a possible case, and making the point known so that all folks understand that the cases have not declined like the CASA and MOPH have decided they have.  The graph of the cases which shows the current declining downtrend that @Bkk Brian posts almost daily shows the long drawn out drop of cases.  If you added in the ATK tests the graph would show we are still on the upper part of the bell curve instead of the descending and now almost flat line portion at 10k case numbers.

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1447362891267534848

 

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 473 new cases today which is the lowest since July. Also two deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (94), Si Racha (131), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (69). There are 9,669 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1447347999554752512

Phuket health authorities are reporting 164 new local cases , two cases from the Sandbox and two deaths. There are 3,663 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 142 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1447348215884304384

I am starting to question this today when the family  across the street last week were all tested and told they had covid, they were not taken to a facility ,just told to stay home. Now this family is suppose to have covid, A boy, a teenager, both parents who have AIDS ( one has a CD4 count of about 50 ) and their mother.  NOT one of them have any of the symptoms, in fact they all feel just fine.  Now the attitude among the neighbors is that Covid is nothing to worry about.

UPDATE: 10,035 confirmed cases, 2,263 probable cases (ATK), and 60 deaths (1.03%). Out of 110,265 patients , 41,930 are in hospital, 56,826 in ‘hospitel’ and 9,518 in home/community isolation. 2,969 in a serious condition (-16) with 680 on ventilators (-9) #Thailand #COVID19

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1447369841959051275

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 12.54 million across Southeast Asia, with 39,996 new cases reported on Sunday (October 10). #Asean #COVID19 #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40007326

Simplified chart from Worldometers this morning for the past 7 days shows Thailand still at #11 for all countries. for Overall cases since the start of Covid they are ranked at #24, and as far as overall deaths from the beginning they are at 253 deaths per million and ranked at #130 overall, but showing only 9,201,621 tests being done or 131,408 per million people, so they have been testing just around 13.14% of the population.

 

11

Thailand

73,463

670

 

As for the overall positioning of Thailand as far as the current 7 day average for deaths shows they rank at #14 just below Malaysia.

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

 

14

Thailand

73,463

670

2 minutes ago, Ohyesuare said:

I'd question how you know so much private health details of a family across the street.

If your neighbors are your friends and your children play with theirs I am sure in the best interest of each such information is disclosed, and of course this is Thailand where everyone's business is sometimes common knowledge, unless of course you stick just to yourself, never get to now anyone and ignore your neighbors completely.

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Opinion: Thailand has to gradually stop worrying about new infection numbers

 

A few days ago, the parents of my daughter’s friend asked me if the number of cases Thailand was seeing was actually much higher than those we see on the news every morning. They had heard from some doctor friends that the rate of infection was being under reported by the ministry and by the government.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/33781/__trashed-4/

7 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Opinion: Thailand has to gradually stop worrying about new infection numbers

 

A few days ago, the parents of my daughter’s friend asked me if the number of cases Thailand was seeing was actually much higher than those we see on the news every morning. They had heard from some doctor friends that the rate of infection was being under reported by the ministry and by the government.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/33781/__trashed-4/

The one thing I took away after reading the article was this paragraph:

 

"There is also nothing wrong with this policy because eventually every country in the world is going to have to learn to live with SARS-Cov-2. The rate of infection and the multitude of current and future mutations means that there will never be a vaccine that eradicates this virus only vaccines that get better and better at mitigating its impact."

 

The writer is absolutely correct with his above statements, and eventually the numbers will be stopped from being reported as we move on from where we currently now.  However, in my view that will not be uuntil the vast majority are vaccinated and this Covid pandemic has been reduced to a footnote.

 

Another thing I find correct from the article is this:

 

"That doesn’t mean of course that the general public should take it easy and use relaxed regulations as a signal to be irresponsible. Mask wearing, social distancing, regular hand washing should now become a part of everyday life. It will never go away just like this virus. But as the entire world slowly builds its immunity towards the disease, so to should our mindset change about infection numbers and transmission data"

 

Live each day by putting one foot in front of the other, stay safe, protect yourselves and take care of your families.

Reported bickering removed.

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

It is nice to see that the RDS is also including the ATK test positives in their view as a case of Covid and not a possible case, and making the point known so that all folks understand that the cases have not declined like the CASA and MOPH have decided they have.  The graph of the cases which shows the current declining downtrend that @Bkk Brian posts almost daily shows the long drawn out drop of cases.  If you added in the ATK tests the graph would show we are still on the upper part of the bell curve instead of the descending and now almost flat line portion at 10k case numbers.

I wonder how many ATK positives are not reported, pretty sure a lot of people are testing themselves and keeping the result to themselves

7 minutes ago, smedly said:

I wonder how many ATK positives are not reported, pretty sure a lot of people are testing themselves and keeping the result to themselves

I just mentioned that in another thread, its the ones who don't report that you need to worry about although you cant blame them. As I understand it though, if a Thai takes a home test to find it positive then its worthwhile reporting it to get a food allowance and home medication if they are not suffering severe symptoms.

40 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Another thing I find correct from the article is this:

 

"That doesn’t mean of course that the general public should take it easy and use relaxed regulations as a signal to be irresponsible. Mask wearing, social distancing, regular hand washing should now become a part of everyday life

strongly disagree with that

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

I just mentioned that in another thread, its the ones who don't report that you need to worry about although you cant blame them. As I understand it though, if a Thai takes a home test to find it positive then its worthwhile reporting it to get a food allowance and home medication if they are not suffering severe symptoms.

That is the caveat.  My GF's daughters fathers family all came down with Covid a second time before the daughter returned home from the hospital a few months back.  They all received a stipens, food vouchers with free delivery to the gate of the house as well as medication delivered. The people doing the testing kits then returned and gave them ore test kits and told them to call in with the results and then gave them a mailer to mail in the used kits for disposal and recording.  I do wonder what percentage of the disbursed ATK kits have been returned.

3 minutes ago, smedly said:

strongly disagree with that

Care to expand on that Sir.  As part of learning to live with Covid, Mask wearing, social distancing, regular hand washing should now become a part of everyday life.  The caveat is the word should that is written.  Should is not a shall but can be defined also as a may.

Good to see number of deaths and official new cases continue to fall along with the number of patients in a serious and on ventilators. All positive signs the country is turning the corner in readiness for the easing of restrictions. 
 

Updated numbers from worldometer including yesterdays figures:
 

Thailand currently sitting at 65th in the worldometer ranking table over the past 7 days for the number of deaths at 10 deaths/million of population, up two places from yesterday. 3 places below the UK. 

 

Official number of deaths have fallen 9% and new cases 3% over the same period. 
 

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

 

 

65

Thailand

73,452

75,794

-3%

1,049

677

746

-9%

10

70,023,091

Good news no need for vaccine anymore

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Thailand on Monday (October 11) reported 12,298 new COVID-19 cases, 10,590 recoveries and 84 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

     2263   antigen tests

◼︎ 10,590 recoveries

◼︎ 9,955 new infections 

◼︎ 80 prison / prison infections

 

1 hour ago, thaitom said:

just told to stay home

Are they complying?

1 hour ago, thaitom said:

I am starting to question this today when the family  across the street last week were all tested and told they had covid, they were not taken to a facility ,just told to stay home. Now this family is suppose to have covid, A boy, a teenager, both parents who have AIDS ( one has a CD4 count of about 50 ) and their mother.  NOT one of them have any of the symptoms, in fact they all feel just fine.  Now the attitude among the neighbors is that Covid is nothing to worry about.

For the vast majority of people it isn’t.  

Would you rather they got all stressed about a family with no symptoms who are staying at home?

38 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Care to expand on that Sir.  As part of learning to live with Covid, Mask wearing, social distancing, regular hand washing should now become a part of everyday life.  The caveat is the word should that is written.  Should is not a shall but can be defined also as a may.

that picture you are painting is far from normal - washing hands being the exception

Just now, smedly said:

that picture you are painting is far from normal - washing hands being the exception

Should is not a shall and not a will. Each can do as they please but then we may, and I use the word may, be in this boat for a lot longer.

Inflammatory post removed.

 

7 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

How would you even know your not even in Thailand.

Not a matter of where the reply hails from.its the logicin its content. 

Health officials on Sunday (Oct 10) reported 109 new COVID-19 cases, 38 were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 33 cases were found in Pranburi, 6 cases in Sam Roi Yot, 7 cases in Kuiburi, 2 cases found in Thap Sakae, 3 cases in Bang Saphan, No-case found in Bang Saphan Noi, and 20 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan.

No new deaths were reported on Sunday but two additional clusters have been discovered in Hua Hin.

 

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