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Thailand on Wednesday (October 27) reported 8,452 new COVID-19 cases, 8,449 recoveries and 57 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 1,846,452

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,730,871

 

Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,875,315 with 18,922 deaths.

 

The news comes as the first COVID-19 Delta Plus case found in Thailand is the AY.1 variant, which is different from the AY.4.2 strain currently spreading in the United Kingdom. The Thai AY.1 patient has fully recovered, said Director-General of the Medical Sciences Department Dr. Supakit Sirilak, at a news conference yesterday (Tuesday).

 

He disclosed that the department found one Delta Plus (AY.1) case, in a man arriving from Ayutthaya province at a field hospital in Kamphaeng Phet province in September, and 18 Alpha Plus cases, also in September, of which two were among prisoners in Chiang Mai and 16 cases were in Chanthaburi and Trat provinces.

 

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Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 297 new cases today and five deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (88), Si Racha (86), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (38). There are 5,595 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453144456056606721

Phuket health authorities are reporting only 80 new local cases today , three cases from the Sandbox and no deaths. There are 1,192 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 183 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453144640136171523

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 13.05 million across Southeast Asia, with 27,325 new cases reported on Tuesday. #COVID19 #Asean #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40008018

PCR test positive cases, total of 8,452 official new infections. 57 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,653 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 11,105

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 25 Oct) and bar chart of community, prison and ATK cases from daily official announcements.

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

UPDATE: 8,452 confirmed cases, 2,653 probable cases (ATK), and 57 deaths (1.01%). Out of 98,096 patients , 42,762 are in hospital, 47,334 in hospitel and 6,255 in home/community isolation. There are 2,355 in a serious condition (-59) with 534 on ventilators (-10) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453167729318371340

Figures coming back down again after making the top 10 a few days ago.

 

Health officials on Tuesday (Oct 26) reported 128 new COVID-19 cases, 45 were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 70 cases were found in Pranburi, zero cases in Sam Roi Yot, zero cases in Kuiburi, zero cases found in Thap Sakae, 4 cases in Bang Saphan, zero cases in Bang Saphan Noi, and 9 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan.

Two more deaths were a;sp reported today, 2 Thai women age 72 and 77 -year-old, one of them lived in Hua Hin area, and the other lived in Wang-Pong area, Pran Buri. Both had underlying health conditions. One of the deceased was not vaccinated, the other was fully vaccinated.

 

Oct 26: Prachuap reports 128 new COVID-19 cases, 45 cases in Hua Hin - Hua Hin Today English Newspaper Info, Reports, Events and News Social Life

So the 1000 cases in the prison we saw announced last night must have been a total from several weeks as they did not show a spike in the prison numbers today.  With ATK cases added we are over the 10k average mark.

 

7 day average shows Thailand at 11th overall in cases, but as yu can see the weekly deaths have declined by 122 deaths which is good. Yet the testing metric is abysmall

11

Thailand

65,345

72,893

-10%

933

463

585

-21%

7

-7,548

-108

-122

-2

70,030,726

 

 

Thailand still at 24th overall since the start of covid, while only averaging 212,951 tests per 1 million in the population.

24

Thailand

1,866,863

+7,706

18,865

+66

1,749,848

+9,532

98,150

2,432

26,658

269

14,913,135

212,951

70,030,726

 

 

Thailand at 36th overall for total number of deaths as well since the start of the pandemic

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#main_table

36

Thailand

1,866,863

+7,706

18,865

+66

1,749,848

+9,532

98,150

2,432

26,658

269

14,913,135

212,951

70,030,726

Possible scenaio for less walkins. People feel a bit sick and do home ATK. Do it wrong and get a false negative. Spread the infection. Numbers remain reasonably steady due to testing being set at a paticular number rather than searching proactively for infections. My guess at testing numbers is around 20-30,000. Pity the govt. decided to no longer say how many tests are being carried out daily like other countries do. Victoria with a population of just under 6.7 million conducted 88,000 tests yesterday. As I say low testing numbers and ATK's here I believe are keeping numbers artificially low. If testing numbers were revealed then we could actually see if there is a meaningful reduction. As for deaths once again I wonder if there has been a change away from dying from Covid-19 to dying with Covid-19. 

 

Deaths numbers down on yesterday and continuing at low levels. 
 

Latest data from the worldometer ranking table for deaths/million of population over the past 7 days, including yesterday’s numbers, shows Thailand dropping another place to 71st in the world, 23 places below the UK.

 

Same table shows Thailand fall one place to 14th in Asia, 4 places below the Philippines and 2 places above Vietnam. 

 

71

Thailand

63,929

72,570

-12%

913

458

572

-20%

7

70,030,726

 

The number of deaths over the past week remains at 7 deaths/million of population, down 20% over the 7 day period, with the number of official infections also falling 12%

 

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

 

Official number of new infections increased but number of recoveries continuing to exceed new cases. Also good to see numbers in a serious condition and on ventilators also reducing. 

This is without the new delta variant found and the Alpha + cases found

 

Delta variant responsible for over 98 per cent of new infections

 

Over 98 per cent of new Covid-19 infections are of a delta variant, a survey by Department of Medical Science revealed.

“The department has been conducting survey on new Covid-19 infections every week, whereas the latest result from last week (October 16-22) found that 98.6 per cent of new patients have been infected with delta variant,” said Dr Supphakit Siriluck, the department's director-general on Tuesday. “0.8 per cent of new patients have beta variant, while 0.6 per cent were infected with alpha variant.”

 

“In the four deep south provinces, delta variant is responsible for 96.9 per cent of new infections, followed by beta variant at 2.3 per cent and alpha variant at 0.8 per cent.”

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40008034

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

So the 1000 cases in the prison we saw announced last night must have been a total from several weeks as they did not show a spike in the prison numbers today.  With ATK cases added we are over the 10k average mark.

 

7 day average shows Thailand at 11th overall in cases, but as yu can see the weekly deaths have declined by 122 deaths which is good. Yet the testing metric is abysmall

11

Thailand

65,345

72,893

-10%

933

463

585

-21%

7

-7,548

-108

-122

-2

70,030,726

 

 

Thailand still at 24th overall since the start of covid, while only averaging 212,951 tests per 1 million in the population.

24

Thailand

1,866,863

+7,706

18,865

+66

1,749,848

+9,532

98,150

2,432

26,658

269

14,913,135

212,951

70,030,726

 

 

Thailand at 36th overall for total number of deaths as well since the start of the pandemic

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#main_table

36

Thailand

1,866,863

+7,706

18,865

+66

1,749,848

+9,532

98,150

2,432

26,658

269

14,913,135

212,951

70,030,726

To put into more perspective, Thailand is the 20th most populous country in the world.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

1 minute ago, sungod said:

To put into more perspective, Thailand is the 20th most populous country in the world.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

Your point being what sir?

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Your point being what sir?

Countries with more people will inevitably get more cases, simple math.

 

93rd overall with cases per 1 million

 

130th for deaths per 1 million

 

Pretty good (although still very sad) overall.

18 minutes ago, sungod said:

To put into more perspective, Thailand is the 20th most populous country in the world.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

“Perspective” ….. a word that seems rarely used nowadays since Covid arrived. 

19 minutes ago, sungod said:

Countries with more people will inevitably get more cases, simple math.

 

93rd overall with cases per 1 million

 

130th for deaths per 1 million

 

Pretty good (although still very sad) overall.

Not all countries according to the list, there are a fair number like Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Japan who have a considerable amount more in terms of population but are down below Thailand as far as total cases etc...go.  Again Stats are not always truthful but we use them anyway.  Answer this question.  Had Thailand tested the population as has the bigger countries would they be up higher in total cases, or would they possibly be lower based upon the percentages?  We will never know that answer now will we.

The PCR test numbers are at least slightly predictable. The antigen test numbers are all over the place, the collection, reporting and collating of the data might not be done consistently from all over the country. I heard yesterday the village school will open on Monday, they have vaccinated the 3 years above primary school with one shot afaik. Yet to see if there will be a full roll up.

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Not all countries according to the list, there are a fair number like Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Japan who have a considerable amount more in terms of population but are down below Thailand as far as total cases etc...go.  Again Stats are not always truthful but we use them anyway.  Answer this question.  Has Thailand tested the population as has the bigger countries would they be up higher in total cases, or would they possibly be lower based upon the percentages?  We will never know that answer now will we.

No we wont, because we don't know if all countries are being truthful.

 

For example there is a tendency on the forum to trust and applaud countries like Vietnam, not to trust anything out of Thailand based on personal opinion.

 

Stats are all we got, may not be exact but should show trends.

17 minutes ago, sungod said:

Countries with more people will inevitably get more cases, simple math.

 

93rd overall with cases per 1 million

 

130th for deaths per 1 million

 

Pretty good (although still very sad) overall.

Thailand and UK have similar populations. UK has way more infections. UK does around 1,000,000 tests a day. I wonder what the infection numbers would be here if Thailand did 1,000,000 tests a day rather than at a guess 30,000.

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Not all countries according to the list, there are a fair number like Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Japan who have a considerable amount more in terms of population but are down below Thailand as far as total cases etc...go.  Again Stats are not always truthful but we use them anyway.  Answer this question.  Has Thailand tested the population as has the bigger countries would they be up higher in total cases, or would they possibly be lower based upon the percentages?  We will never know that answer now will we.

You forgot the biggest country, China. It is not even making a pretence of reporting testing numbers on Worldometer, been 160 million for months. I've said all along its fairly pointless comparing countries unless they have a lot of similarities in a range of factors.

Just now, sungod said:

No we wont, because we don't know if all countries are being truthful.

 

For example there is a tendency on the forum to trust and applaud countries like Vietnam, not to trust anything out of Thailand based on personal opinion.

 

Stats are all we got, may not be exact but should show trends.

Could or could not possibly show trends, does not always show trends if the numbers are fudged.  In the past the numbers reported by this Government surely missed the metric in showing where cases were indeed spreading, or maybe they did show the spread, but then this Government did not get out ahead of the cases.  We would have a better Idea of the totality had they been testing further outward in a wider arc as many here, inlcuding myself, have said before.  To add to that further, had this Government really paid attention to it, then they would have stopped the travel of folks instead of encouraging them, like the first go around where they shut it down, and we would not have seen or be seeing what we did and are.  Of course that is my view and everyone's views differ.  Enjoy your day. 

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

So the 1000 cases in the prison we saw announced last night must have been a total from several weeks as they did not show a spike in the prison numbers today.  With ATK cases added we are over the 10k average mark.

 

7 day average shows Thailand at 11th overall in cases, but as yu can see the weekly deaths have declined by 122 deaths which is good. Yet the testing metric is abysmall

11

Thailand

65,345

72,893

-10%

933

463

585

-21%

7

-7,548

-108

-122

-2

70,030,726

 

 

Thailand still at 24th overall since the start of covid, while only averaging 212,951 tests per 1 million in the population.

24

Thailand

1,866,863

+7,706

18,865

+66

1,749,848

+9,532

98,150

2,432

26,658

269

14,913,135

212,951

70,030,726

 

 

Thailand at 36th overall for total number of deaths as well since the start of the pandemic

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#main_table

36

Thailand

1,866,863

+7,706

18,865

+66

1,749,848

+9,532

98,150

2,432

26,658

269

14,913,135

212,951

70,030,726

Yes an important caveat you mention and one that brings "real perspective" to the charts, testing, Thailand is 141 in the world for testing 2 places below Rwanda and 28 places behind Vietnam, making even their figures more credible!

 

 Limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death means that the number of confirmed deaths is lower that the real count, this is easily evidenced by Thailand excess death rate which is horrendous. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

 

Quite simply limited testing equates to figures on cases and deaths that do not reflect the reality of the true situation. The good news is that even with all the thousands of excess deaths the numbers are going down overall.

 

 

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Yes an important caveat you mention and one that brings "real perspective" to the charts, testing, Thailand is 141 in the world for testing 2 places below Rwanda and 28 places behind Vietnam, making even their figures more credible!

 

 Limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death means that the number of confirmed deaths is lower that the real count, this is easily evidenced by Thailand excess death rate which is horrendous. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

 

Quite simply limited testing equates to figures on cases and deaths that do not reflect the reality of the true situation. The good news is that even with all the thousands of excess deaths the numbers are going down overall.

 

 

I would be interested to see pnuemonia excess deaths 2020/2021.

Excellent article highlighting the hidden pain and the elevated suicide rates since Covid resulting in over 10 deaths/100,000 population in 2020 and predicted to go even higher. 
 

Sadly for these people they won’t get a second chance. 

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-suicide-covid-19-mental-health-department-director-general-2247011

9 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Excellent article highlighting the hidden pain and the elevated suicide rates since Covid resulting in over 10 deaths/100,000 population in 2020 and predicted to go even higher. 
 

Sadly for these people they won’t get a second chance. 

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-suicide-covid-19-mental-health-department-director-general-2247011

Yep. This government most definitely has blood on it's hands.

13 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Excellent article highlighting the hidden pain and the elevated suicide rates since Covid resulting in over 10 deaths/100,000 population and predicted to go even higher. 
 

Sadly for these people they won’t get a second chance. 

 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-suicide-covid-19-mental-health-department-director-general-2247011

There was a thread on this 10 days ago and fully discussed there when it was first published but yes very sad highlighting the terrible response from the government in not doing more to help its own population financially and the other cases where people have lost loved ones to covid and decided to end it themselves:

 

"According to Dr Amporn, the pandemic has caused loss of life and affected socio-economic status. These tend to happen abruptly. Many people lost their loved ones. Others lost their jobs or became burdened with debt."

1000 prisons infections are unknown where they came from and are not in the figures yet..... Manipulate, manipulate and we open next week

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Yes an important caveat you mention and one that brings "real perspective" to the charts, testing, Thailand is 141 in the world for testing 2 places below Rwanda and 28 places behind Vietnam, making even their figures more credible!

 

 Limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death means that the number of confirmed deaths is lower that the real count, this is easily evidenced by Thailand excess death rate which is horrendous. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid

 

Quite simply limited testing equates to figures on cases and deaths that do not reflect the reality of the true situation. The good news is that even with all the thousands of excess deaths the numbers are going down overall.

 

 

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1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Yep. This government most definitely has blood on it's hands.

At least they are finally now getting on with it and not unnecessarily delaying the opening any longer. 
 

“Learning to with it” has come too late sadly for some. 

 

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