Phuket marks 153 new COVID cases, one more death

[webfact]

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By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 153 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Oct 15) bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 13,612.

 

The PPHO report, marked as accurate as of 8pm last night, but posted online at 10:15pm, reported two new infections among Sandbox tourist arrivals and one new infection among non-Sandbox arrivals from abroad.

 

The report also marked one new death attributed to COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in Phuket attributed to COVID-19 since Apr 3 to 92. After 55 COVID deaths in September, officials have marked 17 deaths already this month.

 

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[xylophone]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The PPHO report, marked as accurate as of 8pm last night,

A friend of mine who rooms with a nurse working at one of the islands major hospitals has said that the published number of infections in Phuket, is understated quite considerably, and purposely so to enable the island to open up again.

 

I have no reason to doubt her word, and it would not be unusual for this to occur, after all TIT.

Edited October 16, 2021 by xylophone

[Albert Zweistein]

13 hours ago, xylophone said:

A friend of mine who rooms with a nurse working at one of the islands major hospitals has said that the published number of infections in Phuket, is understated quite considerably, and purposely so to enable the island to open up again.

 

I have no reason to doubt her word, and it would not be unusual for this to occur, after all TIT.

I have no reason to doubt what authorities are publishing but I still do.