A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample from a person for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test, at a temple near Klong Toey slum community in Bangkok, Thailand, May 3, 2021. REUTERS/Juarawee Kittisilpa

 

Thailand on Sunday (Oct 24) reported 9,351 new COVID-19 cases, 10,098 recoveries and 56 deaths.

 

Of the new cases 139 were discovered in prisons.

 

Sunday's cases brings the total number of cases in Thailand to 1.85 million since the start of the pandemic and 1.82 million cases since April 1 - the start of the so-called 'third wave' of infections.

 

To date, 1.73 million people have recovered, while the total death toll stands at 18,661.

 

As of Friday, Thailand had administered approximately 69.9 million vaccine doses, with around 38.7 million having received one vaccine dose, 28 million two doses and 2.1 million receiving a third vaccine dose.

 

On Saturday, Zuellig Pharma (ZP) Therapeutics Company announced that the first batch of Moderna vaccines will arrive in Thailand on November 5.

 

The company also reconfirmed that at total of 1.9 million doses of the Moderna vaccine will be arriving in Thailand in the fourth quarter of this year, while the remaining 6.8 million doses, ordered by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization, will be delivered before the end of March next year.

 

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Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 289 new cases today (the lowest for more than 3 months) and three deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (56), Si Racha (109), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (45). There are 6,200 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

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PCR test positive cases, total of 9,351 official new infections. 56 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 4,163 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 13,514

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 22 Oct) and bar chart of community, prison and ATK cases from daily official announcements.

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

Phuket health authorities are reporting 124 new local cases today , no cases from the Sandbox and four deaths. There are 1,591 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 172 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1452068929518510084

Asean countries reported 31,057 infections and 355 deaths on Saturday compared to 32,368 and 585 respectively on Friday.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40007886

UPDATE: 9,351 confirmed cases, 4,163 probable cases (ATK), and 56 deaths (1.01%). Out of 101,000 patients , 43,389 are in hospital, 49,460 in hospitel and 6,522 in home/community isolation. There are 2,432 in a serious condition (-20) with 546 on ventilators (-14) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1452092226201214976

Well the infection numbers seem to be in a sort of holding pattern now around the 11-14K obviously including ATK. As always though the varacity of these numbers lies with the amount of testing being done.

Ourworldindata....

13.500 new cases it looks these cases are less severe and that is good. A lot of vaccinated people will be less sick, although 13.500 is still high for reopening for tourists as schools, surely in the red and dark red areas

 

44 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 ... 56 deaths

 ... 2,432 in a serious condition  .

 ... 546 on ventilators

Always gives me a shudder to read this every day (along with: "but for the grace of  ....")

 

Things are far from over ....

7 minutes ago, law ling said:

Always gives me a shudder to read this every day (along with: "but for the grace of  ....")

 

Things are far from over ....

Covid won't ever be "over". It's a disease we have to accept will be around and a risk. 

As I posted yesterday, here are the confirmed figures for Prachuap Khiri Khan.

 

On Saturday, the number of new cases rose further still, jumping to 445 confirmed new cases – the most number confirmed cases in two months.

The sudden spike in cases is largely due to the discovery of several COVID-19 clusters at factories and fruit processing plants, workers camps and dormitories, predominately in the Pranburi area, which reported 362 cases alone on Saturday.

The continued surge in cases on Saturday meant that Prachuap Khiri Khan was among the top 10 provinces reporting the highest number of COVID-19 cases.

 

Daily COVID-19 cases in Prachuap Khiri Khan continue to surge - Hua Hin Today English Newspaper Info, Reports, Events and News Social Life

 

Health officials on Saturday (Oct 23) reported 445 new COVID-19 cases, 50 were found in Hua Hin and of those, 31 cases were found in either Hua Hin or Nong Khae districts.

Elsewhere in the province, 362 cases were found in Pranburi, 15 cases in Sam Roi Yot, 9 cases in Kuiburi, zero cases found in Thap Sakae, 3 cases in Bang Saphan, zero cases in Bang Saphan Noi, and 6 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan.

No new deaths were reported.and no death was reported today,

 

Oct 23: Prachuap reports 445 new COVID-19 cases, 50 cases in Hua Hin - Hua Hin Today English Newspaper Info, Reports, Events and News Social Life

9k is the new 10k.

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 9,351 official new infections. 56 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 4,163 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 13,514

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 22 Oct) and bar chart of community, prison and ATK cases from daily official announcements.

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

Sunday rapid tests always seem to be bumped upward, and it makes me wonder why.

12 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Covid won't ever be "over". It's a disease we have to accept will be around and a risk. 

Much like a lot of the other viruses I am afraid, but the world needs to move on with precautions in place to some extent.

1 hour ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The company also reconfirmed that at total of 1.9 million doses of the Moderna vaccine will be arriving in Thailand in the fourth quarter of this year, while the remaining 6.8 million doses, ordered by the Government Pharmaceutical Organization, will be delivered before the end of March next year.

Sounds like the are trying to take credit for it, i.e. that the government purchased the Moderna vaccines, not the private hospital consortiums, even if the government did order some, none of which I know of, you shouldn't take credit for the lot, but then again things are done differently in Thailand.

Covid-19 in prison: outbreaks from overcrowding now subsiding

 

The Thai prison system has suffered from an overcrowding problem for years, but the Covid-19 pandemic has starkly illustrated the dangers of it. In prisons, there have been 72,359 Covid-19 infections, making them more infected than any single province except Bangkok (1st) and its neighbours Samut Prakan (2nd) and Samut Sakhon (4th) and Chon Buri (3rd).

 

Thailand has the 6th largest prison population in the world and the highest incarceration rate of females in the world.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/covid-19-in-prison-outbreaks-from-overcrowding-now-subsiding

Latest data from the worldometer ranking table for deaths/million of population over the past 7 days shows Thailand at 69th in the world, same as yesterday and 22 places below the UK. Same table shows Thailand 13th in Asia, one place below the Philippines. 

 

The number of deaths over the past week remains at 7 deaths/million of population, down 17% over the 7 day period, with the number of official infections also falling 6%. 
 

69

Thailand

68,293

72,771

-6%

975

494

598

-17%

7

70,029,294

 

These trends along with the drop in numbers of people in a serious condition and on ventilators are all positive signs that the vaccination programme is having a positive effect throughout the country. 

Around 40% of the population overall now been fully vaccinated, with higher numbers in some of the targeted tourist resorts in preparation for next months quarantine free opening. 

 

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

https://covidvax.live/en/location/tha

 

10 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Latest data from the worldometer ranking table for deaths/million of population over the past 7 days shows Thailand at 69th in the world, same as yesterday and 22 places below the UK. Same table shows Thailand 13th in Asia, one place below the Philippines. 

 

The number of deaths over the past week remains at 7 deaths/million of population, down 17% over the 7 day period, with the number of official infections also falling 6%. 
 

69

Thailand

68,293

72,771

-6%

975

494

598

-17%

7

70,029,294

 

These trends along with the drop in numbers of people in a serious condition and on ventilators are all positive signs that the vaccination programme is having a positive effect throughout the country. 

Around 40% of the population overall now been fully vaccinated, with higher numbers in some of the targeted tourist resorts in preparation for next months quarantine free opening. 

 

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

https://covidvax.live/en/location/tha

 

I did find the John Campbell vid which looked at Russia very interesting. Seems some are saying both the infection figures and the death figures are bogus. China we all know that was a complete cover up so why not here? Just positing a question.

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Covid-19 in prison: outbreaks from overcrowding now subsiding

 

The Thai prison system has suffered from an overcrowding problem for years, but the Covid-19 pandemic has starkly illustrated the dangers of it. In prisons, there have been 72,359 Covid-19 infections, making them more infected than any single province except Bangkok (1st) and its neighbours Samut Prakan (2nd) and Samut Sakhon (4th) and Chon Buri (3rd).

 

Thailand has the 6th largest prison population in the world and the highest incarceration rate of females in the world.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/covid-19-in-prison-outbreaks-from-overcrowding-now-subsiding

With a Prison population of about 320,000 people, there was always going to be a massive number who tested positive.

And the Death / Numbers rate for the Prisons is ?????.

I have not read of one single report on this matter  !

I think there was a large onus placed upon this Green Chireeta Herbal stuff to reduce the numbers, but with 72,359 Infection reported, ( roughly 25 % ) of all the total population locked up, that is an appalling number, and the herbal medication should be immediately withdrawn from use.

6 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Well the infection numbers seem to be in a sort of holding pattern now around the 11-14K obviously including ATK. As always though the varacity of these numbers lies with the amount of testing being done.

Ourworldindata....

Agreed, of course it does, testing means everything and without adequate testing you get false figures, its really as simple as that. I find it amazing that some still insist on comparing the covid situation in Thailand with the UK, based on that one metric alone. However there are other metrics which also show the two countries could not be further apart.

 

Excess deaths: Thailand is currently running at multiple thousands in this wave. The UK is running in the low hundreds. This is the true and hidden cost of the pandemic. The UK is capturing most of these deaths shown by the low numbers in excess while Thailand has had a surge of deaths in the last 3 months.

 

Hospitalizations: Thailand currently has over 43,389 in a real hospital being treated, still a very high burden for the health system. The UK has just 8,170

 

Covid mortality classification: We know exactly what the classification is for capturing a covid death in the UK. We have absolutely no idea what it is for Thailand as its never officially been announced.

 

 

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Agreed, of course it does, testing means everything and without adequate testing you get false figures, its really as simple as that. I find it amazing that some still insist on comparing the covid situation in Thailand with the UK, based on that one metric alone. However there are other metrics which also show the two countries could not be further apart.

 

Excess deaths: Thailand is currently running at multiple thousands in this wave. The UK is running in the low hundreds. This is the true and hidden cost of the pandemic. The UK is capturing most of these deaths shown by the low numbers in excess while Thailand has had a surge of deaths in the last 3 months.

 

Hospitalizations: Thailand currently has over 43,389 in a real hospital being treated, still a very high burden for the health system. The UK has just 8,170

 

Covid mortality classification: We know exactly what the classification is for capturing a covid death in the UK. We have absolutely no idea what it is for Thailand as its never officially been announced.

 

 

I'm afraid rational statements like this can not or will not be accepted by some on this forum. Of course you are absoloutly correct. It's been this way from the beginning. "Oh! Look how good Thailand is going". Govt. "Ok we're getting away with it. Let's keep going". It's been a cover up from the very beginning.

15 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

I'm afraid rational statements like this can not or will not be accepted by some on this forum. Of course you are absoloutly correct. It's been this way from the beginning. "Oh! Look how good Thailand is going". Govt. "Ok we're getting away with it. Let's keep going". It's been a cover up from the very beginning.

For the past 18 months you and other members on this forum have been recording, trending, charting and dissecting every available piece of data and at one point it was mentioned that the death numbers were the critical piece of information as they were less likely to be false. 
 

Also mentioned that the infection numbers were important as they showed the trends. 
 

Now, the numbers are dropping noticeably and the country is ready to open up, it’s all been a lie and a “cover up” and we should not believe  them as it doesnt suit the now conspiracy theorists. 
 

Do me a favour. 
 

 

 

1 hour ago, Kadilo said:

For the past 18 months you and other members on this forum have been recording, trending, charting and dissecting every available piece of data and at one point it was mentioned that the death numbers were the critical piece of information as they were less likely to be false. 
 

Also mentioned that the infection numbers were important as they showed the trends. 
 

Now, the numbers are dropping noticeably and the country is ready to open up, it’s all been a lie and a “cover up” and we should not believe  them as it doesnt suit the now conspiracy theorists. 
 

Do me a favour. 
 

 

 

Actually we have been questioning the lack of of transpancy. Do you not find it interesting that testing numbers suddenly became a percentage. Fully recovered became recovered. ATK numbers not included. Testing levels have always been abismal. One doesn't have to be a cynic to see there something on the nose.

7 hours ago, law ling said:

Always gives me a shudder to read this every day (along with: "but for the grace of  ....")

 

Things are far from over ....

Huge improvement from 1 month ago:

Sept 24th
 ... 132 deaths

 ... 3377 in a serious condition  .

 ... 743 on ventilators

to Oct 24th

 ... 56 deaths

 ... 2,432 in a serious condition  .

 ... 546 on ventilators

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

@Macrohistorymaybe you could let me know why you think my post is funny as you consistently post a negative emoji against me and barely post anything yourself in the thread, something apparently frowned up on this forum?
 

 

I find your post actually funny in the way you have posted your beliefs in the supposed information you posted which is chosen obviously for your view.

 

Actual stats are these, and straight from Worldometers

 

Overall standing in the world

                             Cases last 7 days     Deaths in the last 7 days

11

Thailand

68,293

494

 

Overall since the beginning of the Pandemic and when stats started Thailand is at 24

24

Thailand

1,850,482

+9,351

18,755

+56

1,730,727

+10,098

101,000

2,432

26,424

268

9,201,621

131,397

70,029,294

 

Since the beginning of the pandemic Thailand is 130 overall in deaths per million of population with 268 per million and 191st from the top and only 13 from the bottom for the most deaths in the past 7 days. 

 

Where you come up with them being 65th is hard to explain since they are actually 134th over all in the weekly death change, which actually isn't bad in that respect it is just that they are near the top in all other categories.

134

Thailand

68,293

72,771

-6%

975

494

598

-17%

7

-4,478

-64

-104

-1

70,029,294

20 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I find your post actually funny in the way you have posted your beliefs in the supposed information you posted which is chosen obviously for your view.

 

Actual stats are these, and straight from Worldometers

 

Overall standing in the world

                             Cases last 7 days     Deaths in the last 7 days

11

Thailand

68,293

494

 

Overall since the beginning of the Pandemic and when stats started Thailand is at 24

24

Thailand

1,850,482

+9,351

18,755

+56

1,730,727

+10,098

101,000

2,432

26,424

268

9,201,621

131,397

70,029,294

 

Since the beginning of the pandemic Thailand is 130 overall in deaths per million of population with 268 per million and 191st from the top and only 13 from the bottom for the most deaths in the past 7 days. 

 

Where you come up with them being 65th is hard to explain since they are actually 134th over all in the weekly death change, which actually isn't bad in that respect it is just that they are near the top in all other categories.

134

Thailand

68,293

72,771

-6%

975

494

598

-17%

7

-4,478

-64

-104

-1

70,029,294

Yep exactly where Thailand's own CCSA places them on their daily slides from worldometers, this from today.

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/241064.pdf

 

356,084 vaccinations yesterday

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/241064.pdf

A personal attack has been removed

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

356,084 vaccinations yesterday

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/241064.pdf

A 39.3 % overall of the population vaccinated. Can they vaccinate 30.7% more in the next 68 days to hit the 70% goal, in order to do so they would need to vaccinate over 21+ million of the 37+million who already have a first jab. Is it doable, possible and I will hope they can.