Thailand reports 7,706 new COVID-19 cases, 66 deaths, 9,532 recoveries

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Thailand on Tuesday (October 26) reported 7,706 new COVID-19 cases, 9,532 recoveries and 6 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 1,838,000

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,722,422

 

Tuesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,866,863 with 18,865 deaths.

 

The news comes as Thailand has recorded its first case of the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19, but there is no cause for concern over its severity, drug or vaccine resistance as the disease being closely monitored, according to Dr. Chawetsan Namwat, director of the Division of Disease Control and Emergency Health Hazards at Disease Control Department (DCD), yesterday (Monday).

 

He did not elaborate about the case, but said that the Department of Medical Science will hold a press conference on Tuesday to provide more details.

 

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[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1452798396255797249

 

 

 

 

Edited October 26, 2021 by anchadian

[Bkk Brian]

PCR test positive cases, total of 7,706 official new infections. 66 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,304 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 10,010

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 24 Oct) and bar chart of community, prison and ATK cases from daily official announcements.

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

[anchadian]

Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting only 245 new cases today (the lowest since July) and two deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (51), Si Racha (67), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (31). There are 5,746 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1452784415201902594

[anchadian]

Phuket health authorities are reporting only 83 new local cases today , three cases from the Sandbox and four deaths. There are 1,313 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 180 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1452784637751676930

[anchadian]

UPDATE: 7,706 confirmed cases, 2,304 probable cases (ATK), and 66 deaths (1.01%). Out of 98,150 patients , 41,896 are in hospital, 48,094 in hospitel and 6,532 in home/community isolation. There are 2,414 in a serious condition (-23) with 544 on ventilators (+8) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1452804348304498691

[ThailandRyan]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

He did not elaborate about the case, but said that the Department of Medical Science will hold a press conference on Tuesday to provide more details.

Only way it could have arrived would have been via a traveler at this point unless the country is having the Delta variant mutate from within, which of course is a distinct possibility, and could possibly be from the south of the country or even the north of the country where cases have expanded.  If that is true then it will only be time before it marches it's way to Bangkok.  Would be nice to know of the locale it was found, and then if the person had been vaccinated and with what vaccine.  They are so slow to draw out the information so folks can see the big picture if there is little to worry about if vaccinated.

[anchadian]

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 13.02 million across Southeast Asia, with 26,848 new cases reported on Monday. #COVID19 #Asean #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40007967

[Bkk Brian]

2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Only way it could have arrived would have been via a traveler at this point unless the country is having the Delta variant mutate from within, which of course is a distinct possibility, and could possibly be from the south of the country or even the north of the country where cases have expanded.  If that is true then it will only be time before it marches it's way to Bangkok.  Would be nice to know of the locale it was found, and then if the person had been vaccinated and with what vaccine.  They are so slow to draw out the information so folks can see the big picture if there is little to worry about if vaccinated.

I'm hoping the press conference today will announce it was found through a test on arrival via sandbox or normal quarantine, that would be the best case scenario and where they tend to sequence any positive results to see which strain it was. If found in community then thats a major problem.

[law ling]

I've read in the last few days they caught about 100 Cambodian, and nearly 50 Burmese, illegal entrants - that's who they caught, and reported - perhaps others get through bringing new infections and new variants.

[cyril sneer]

looked like they weren't going to meet their target for a while there...

 

7706

6984

6544

5702

5455

5001 > Nov 1st

[Kadilo]

Good to see another large decline in the official number of new infections with number of recoveries continuing to exceed new cases. 
 

Deaths up on yesterday (assuming it’s 66 as in the headline and not 6 as in the text of the OP). 
 

Latest data from the worldometer ranking table for deaths/million of population over the past 7 days shows Thailand dropping to 70th in the world, 21 places below the UK.

 

Same table shows Thailand fall one place to 14th in Asia, 5 places below the Philippines and 3 places above Vietnam. 

 

The number of deaths over the past week remains at 7 deaths/million of population, down 21% over the 7 day period, with the number of official infections also falling 10%

 

 

70

Thailand

65,345

72,893

-10%

933

463

585

-21%

7

70,030,249

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

 

Edited October 26, 2021 by Kadilo

[Walker88]

Not sure what accounts for the death rates in Vietnam vs Thailand. Vietnam has a 2.4% death rate (deaths per recorded infection), while Thailand is only 1%.

 

Better medical care?

 

Some sort of natural immunity?

 

Fewer tests in Vietnam?

 

Fudged figures in Thailand?

 

The difference is statistically significant, so it bears investigation. If it's just a matter of fudged figures or fewer tests, then it's nothing, but if there is some other factor, knowing what it is could be of benefit in treatment or care. The fact it isn't being studied suggests it's testing rates or fudging, as the differences are too significant to ignore.

[Bkk Brian]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

I'm hoping the press conference today will announce it was found through a test on arrival via sandbox or normal quarantine, that would be the best case scenario and where they tend to sequence any positive results to see which strain it was. If found in community then thats a major problem.

Ok so looks like a problem, the case was found in the local community.

 

Dr Chawetsan said the variant, also known as AY.4.2, was found in a 49-year-old man working in Ayutthaya's Bang Sai area last month. The man had no history of travel to risk areas or abroad, the director said.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-finds-first-local-delta-plus-covid-19-case

[ThailandRyan]

10 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Ok so looks like a problem, the case was found in the local community.

 

Dr Chawetsan said the variant, also known as AY.4.2, was found in a 49-year-old man working in Ayutthaya's Bang Sai area last month. The man had no history of travel to risk areas or abroad, the director said.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-finds-first-local-delta-plus-covid-19-case

Oh snap, and that is in the center of Thailand.  Homegrown Delta plus?, or from a passerby.  They need to get out ahead of this and do some saturation testing.  Possibly? from a traveler going through the Bang Sai area that was asymptomatic of had minor symptoms and thought it was just a cold.  

[mancub]

2 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

looked like they weren't going to meet their target for a while there...

 

7706

6984

6544

5702

5455

5001 > Nov 1st

Yep, once the Prophecy has been fulfilled, the Blameless One can walk away from any subsequent damage.

[Rimmer]

Some posts quoting an incorrect number have been removed, the figure has now been corrected

 

An off topic post has also been removed

[Bkk Brian]

Thailand said it found 18 cases of the Alpha + variant (which has more chance to cause severe illness) in October and one Delta + case.

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1452865373435400195

 

[Cake Monster]

3 hours ago, anchadian said:

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 13.02 million across Southeast Asia, with 26,848 new cases reported on Monday. #COVID19 #Asean #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40007967

Case numbers in general appear to be declining throughout Asean.

However, Thailand still has roughly a 1/3 rd of all the total infections within the Bloc.

I can see a Race starting to develop in which the other Nations are going to open fully to Tourists, due to much lowercase Loads , and Thailand is going to be left high and very dry.

[candide]

2 hours ago, Walker88 said:

Not sure what accounts for the death rates in Vietnam vs Thailand. Vietnam has a 2.4% death rate (deaths per recorded infection), while Thailand is only 1%.

 

Better medical care?

 

Some sort of natural immunity?

 

Fewer tests in Vietnam?

 

Fudged figures in Thailand?

 

The difference is statistically significant, so it bears investigation. If it's just a matter of fudged figures or fewer tests, then it's nothing, but if there is some other factor, knowing what it is could be of benefit in treatment or care. The fact it isn't being studied suggests it's testing rates or fudging, as the differences are too significant to ignore.

The answer is simple: check the number of excess deaths, 

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

[ikke1959]

3 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Good to see another large decline in the official number of new infections with number of recoveries continuing to exceed new cases. 
 

Deaths up on yesterday (assuming it’s 66 as in the headline and not 6 as in the text of the OP). 
 

Latest data from the worldometer ranking table for deaths/million of population over the past 7 days shows Thailand dropping to 70th in the world, 21 places below the UK.

 

Same table shows Thailand fall one place to 14th in Asia, 5 places below the Philippines and 3 places above Vietnam. 

 

The number of deaths over the past week remains at 7 deaths/million of population, down 21% over the 7 day period, with the number of official infections also falling 10%

 

 

70

Thailand

65,345

72,893

-10%

933

463

585

-21%

7

70,030,249

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

 

It depends on how you see it.. If you only count the PCR test than the cases are declining, but if the rapid test are being included than there is a slight rise.. IMHO I think that the recoveries will contain also the ones from the rapid test, so in fact they don't count them as positive but they count them when recovered... It looks good on both sides, but is it the truth????

[Rhacsyn]

4 hours ago, anchadian said:

Phuket health authorities are reporting only 83 new local cases today , three cases from the Sandbox and four deaths. There are 1,313 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 180 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1452784637751676930

Living in Phuket, pleasing to see the slow, but steady decline in reported cases. Further to this, and more encouraging, is that Covid bed occupancy, once much reported, and up to 90% during "crisis" stage, is now down to approximately 23% of the 6,000+ beds set aside for Covid "patients".

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-83-new-covid-cases-four-more-deaths-81815.php

[Kadilo]

2 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

It depends on how you see it.. If you only count the PCR test than the cases are declining, but if the rapid test are being included than there is a slight rise.. IMHO I think that the recoveries will contain also the ones from the rapid test, so in fact they don't count them as positive but they count them when recovered... It looks good on both sides, but is it the truth????

The only really reliable measure imo is the death rates which are clearly falling sharply. 

The PCR is the more reliable test hence included in the Official numbers which most people go by. 

 

The infection rates as you say are hit and miss and the numbers can be played with to score political points depending on which side of the fence you wish to sit.  

 

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

3 minutes ago, Rhacsyn said:

Living in Phuket, pleasing to see the slow, but steady decline in reported cases. Further to this, and more encouraging, is that Covid bed occupancy, once much reported, and up to 90% during "crisis" stage, is now down to approximately 23% of the 6,000+ beds set aside for Covid "patients".

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-83-new-covid-cases-four-more-deaths-81815.php

That is encouraging yes, shame about the CFR which is very high for a 80% plus vaccinated population but aside from that the cases are without doubt in decline.

 

International schools went back yesterday after a weeks half term break, they had been running before the break for around 3 or 4 weeks and there were no notable increases in cases that came to my attention as a result of them operating as normal. The test in my opinion will be when all the government schools return to campus on the 1st Nov which I assume they are. I just hope they also have good surveillance measures in place. It was from the government schools that quite a few cases emerged when they were open last time.

 

It is highly likely that cases will rise as a result if they are all open in Phuket but the strategy should now be to contain it without further need to close them again. Keeping my fingers crossed on that, after all Phuket is now one of the highest vaccinated places in the world!

[anchadian]

Yesterday's vaccinations - 731,718

 

https://twitter.com/NBTWORLDNews/status/1452885723271491584

[anchadian]

Link sought between Nakhon Ratchasima senior’s death and AstraZeneca shot

 

A 70-year-old man in Nakhon Ratchasima was found unconscious on the bathroom floor in the wee hours of Tuesday – one week after he received this second Covid-19 jab.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40007996

[ThailandRyan]

6 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Link sought between Nakhon Ratchasima senior’s death and AstraZeneca shot

 

A 70-year-old man in Nakhon Ratchasima was found unconscious on the bathroom floor in the wee hours of Tuesday – one week after he received this second Covid-19 jab.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40007996

Reading the article it sounds more like he may have been intoxicated and fell, thus causing himself a serious injury of which he passed from.

[anchadian]

Of the 7,568 cases in the general Thai population, the highest numbers were 901 in Bangkok followed by 621 in Pattani, 620 in Songkhla, 533 in Nakhon Si Thammarat, 355 in Chiang Mai, 322 in Narathiwat, 247 in Yala and 245 in Chonburi.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1452899802627207169

 

[anchadian]

58 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Yesterday's vaccinations - 731,718

 

https://twitter.com/NBTWORLDNews/status/1452885723271491584

A total of 71.24 million Covid vaccines were administered between February 28 - October 25, including 40.35 million first doses and 28.71 million second doses (39.9% of the population are fully vaccinated). 731,718 people were vaccinated yesterday.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1452900186422800394

 

[WhiteBuffaloATM]

TRyan: any stats can be manipulated & deployed. ONE person in 3700 in thailand has died of covid.around 0.03% pop. my point is that these key statistics are found nowhere officially. instead we are confronted with “case death” %s, for Thailand, some eighty times higher.

 

So I ask Members again, in all seriousness, WHAT is the significance of “covid case deaths”, in Thailand or Anywhere ? Initial Internet Search produced Nothing.