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Thailand on Thursday (October 28) reported 9,658 new COVID-19 cases, 8,526 recoveries and 84 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 1,856,110

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,739,397

 

Thursday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,884,973 with 19,006 deaths.

 

The news comes as Tourism and Sports Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan is confident that replacing the Certificate of Entry (COE) system with the ‘Thailand Pass’ system will greatly contribute to the increasing number of foreign tourists when the country reopens on November 1.

 

The Tourism Minister boasted a significant rise in hotel bookings under the Phuket Sandbox scheme for November now that travelers from 45 countries and one territory will be allowed to enter the country without quarantine.

 

However, visitors need to provide a negative test for COVID-19 before traveling and take a COVID-19 test on arrival and wait in an approved hotel for the results. After they have been cleared, they will be allowed to travel freely in the country.

 

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Chonburi Public Health Office is reporting 375 new cases today and two deaths. Most new cases are in Chonburi City (93), Si Racha (99), and Bang Lamung/Pattaya (41). There are 5,770 patients in care #COVID19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453516306771111936

Phuket health authorities are reporting only 75 new local cases today , four cases from the Sandbox and one death. There are 1,124 patients in care . The #PhuketSandbox has had 187 cases since 1st July #COVID19 #โควิด19 #โควิดวันนี้ #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453516524782710789

UPDATE: 9,658 confirmed cases, 4,410 probable cases (ATK), and 84 deaths (1.01%). Out of 99,144 patients , 44,691 are in hospital, 46,592 in hospitel and 6,135 in home/community isolation. There are 2,281 in a serious condition (-74) with 526 on ventilators (-8) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453529255602634754

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 13.08 million across Southeast Asia, with 30,234 new cases reported on Wednesday. #COVID19 #Asean #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40008067

PCR test positive cases, total of 9,658 official new infections. 84 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 4,410 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 14,068

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 26 Oct) no bar chart, will post later.

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

Health officials on Wednesday (Oct 27) reported 105 new COVID-19 cases, 36 were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 53 cases were found in Pranburi, 1 case in Sam Roi Yot, zero cases in Kuiburi, zero cases found in Thap Sakae, 3 cases in Bang Saphan, zero cases in Bang Saphan Noi, and 12 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan.

No deaths were reported today.

 

Oct 27: Prachuap reports 105 new COVID-19 cases, 36 cases in Hua Hin - Hua Hin Today English Newspaper Info, Reports, Events and News Social Life

 

 

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 72nd in the world, 29 places below the UK.

 

Same table shows Thailand remain at 14th in Asia, 5 places below the Philippines and 6 places above Vietnam. 
 

72

Thailand

63,463

71,424

-11%

906

436

569

-23%

6

70,031,203

 

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

 

The number of deaths over the past week has fallen to 6 deaths/million of population, down 23% over the 7 day period, with the number of official infections also falling 12%

 

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

 

 

Will be interesting to see if they manage to keep the number below 10,000?

 

May require the best masseurs?

 

 

19 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

Will be interesting to see if they manage to keep the number below 10,000?

 

May require the best masseurs?

 

 

Over 5300 in SNG. on todays chart. Given thepopulation thats huge. 

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 9,658 official new infections. 84 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 4,410 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 14,068

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 26 Oct) no bar chart, will post later.

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

That's a definite bump upwards with only 218 from prisons in the mix. I was thinking it had all of the 1k discussed on Tuesday e ending and yesterday but nope.

 

ATK positives are a big jump as well. I wonder if those were from prisons or the public.

 

Traffic and pedestrian foot traffic seems to have returned to near normal around me and the local talads are busy. U fortunately half of the folks I see are either not wearing a mask or wearing it as chin warmers.

 

Relaxing of restrictions has also led to complacency and social distancing disappearing.

As opined on a previous version of this page the decline seems to be more or less flatlining at a combined (PCR & ATK) rate of just over 10. Today's 14 seems pretty bad by that measure, or could be a blip caused by a relatively high number of ATKs today, probably the weekends figures finally coming through.

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

That's a definite bump upwards with only 218 from prisons in the mix. I was thinking it had all of the 1k discussed on Tuesday e ending and yesterday but nope.

 

ATK positives are a big jump as well. I wonder if those were from prisons or the public.

 

Traffic and pedestrian foot traffic seems to have returned to near normal around me and the local talads are busy. U fortunately half of the folks I see are either not wearing a mask or wearing it as chin warmers.

 

Relaxing of restrictions has also led to complacency and social distancing disappearing.

True.

Sukhumvit road packed yesterday and so many people walking around, not seen for a year.

I hope he is leading by example and everyone else that receives AZ  will also get a Pfizer booster after 6 months.

 

PM @prayutofficial has received his 3rd #COVID19 vaccine (a booster by Pfizer) before attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference @COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland later this week.

https://twitter.com/saksithcna/status/1453562752300056579?s=21

 

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 9,658 official new infections. 84 official covid deaths recorded. 

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 4,410 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 14,068

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

 

Rolling 7 day average (up to 26 Oct) no bar chart, will post later.

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

Rapid tests positive cases, 4,410 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 14,068

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

 

Thailand's caseload rises just days before the country is set to open its doors to 46 countries the hospital caseload remains very high with 44,691 being treated in a normal hospital. This remains a heavy burden on the health system and it would be nice to see those numbers declining rather than flat-lining.

Today I officially became a bitter Farang. I put a laughing emoji on this s news.

 

14.000 new cases and 1000 from prison missing........and the numbers are really as they lie...But who cares... The country must open...... no going back........millions of THB for artists, managers, organizers and hotels and the poor can do it with no or bad effective vaccines...Happiness to the people

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

Thu 21st: 714,104

Fri 22nd: 706,378

Sat 23rd: 356,084

Sun 24th: 226,178

Mon 25th: 731,718

Tue 26th: 812,009

Wed 27th: 762,954

 

TOTAL: 72,812,483 doses since 28 Feb

 

40.9% of the population fully vaccinated

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453597552301916160

35 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

14.000 new cases and 1000 from prison missing........and the numbers are really as they lie...But who cares... The country must open...... no going back........millions of THB for artists, managers, organizers and hotels and the poor can do it with no or bad effective vaccines...Happiness to the people

Yes. There have been thousands maybe 10's of thousands of positive infections from factories that never see their way to official figures.

Today there were 84 deaths in #Thailand

 

48 males & 36 females

Burmese (2)

Age range is 27-99 years

68% of deaths aged 60+

Most deaths in the southern region (28)

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453598291149553664

 

Top 10 Provinces for new cases:

 

Bangkok 845

Songkhla 677

Nakhon Si Thammarat 612

Yala 496

Chonburi 375

Pattani 369

Samut Prakan 356

Chiang Mai 356

Narathiwat 327

Prachuap Khiri Khan 280

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1453599252676943873

 

Another 1.5 million doses of #Pfizer #COVID19 #vaccine arrived in #Thailand yesterday (Oct 27), bringing deliveries of this #mRNA vaccine to 9.5 million doses so far. 2 million students aged 12-17 have received their 1st Pfizer jabs to date, said the DDC.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiPBSWorld/status/1453593198836654082

 

So everyone is out and about, malls open. Numbers are going down. What happened? Everyone’s theory was lockdowns are so effective. What is going on? 
 

It’s amazing when the theory you subscribe to is violated over and over and you still do not change your mind. 
 

The regulations do little to nothing. It’s a virus and moves through the population in a natural, biological way. We can’t control it. That would only be feasible if there were a handful of cases.

 

 

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51 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Another 1.5 million doses of #Pfizer #COVID19 #vaccine arrived in #Thailand yesterday (Oct 27), bringing deliveries of this #mRNA vaccine to 9.5 million doses so far. 2 million students aged 12-17 have received their 1st Pfizer jabs to date, said the DDC.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiPBSWorld/status/1453593198836654082

 

They said all students in this age range would be vaccinated this month. I can't remember but I think the number of students in this age range was around 7 million. If I'm right or round about they have 3 days to vaccinate 5 million students. If I'm wrong please let me know.

53 minutes ago, sucit said:

So everyone is out and about, malls open. Numbers are going down. What happened? Everyone’s theory was lockdowns are so effective. What is going on? 
 

It’s amazing when the theory you subscribe to is violated over and over and you still do not change your mind. 
 

The regulations do little to nothing. It’s a virus and moves through the population in a natural, biological way. We can’t control it. That would only be feasible if there were a handful of cases.

 

 

It's a virus that's killed nearly (officially) 5,000,000 people. I wonder what this number would be if the world let it move "through the population in a natural, biological way."? I would suggest 100,000,000+.

1 hour ago, sucit said:

So everyone is out and about, malls open. Numbers are going down. What happened? Everyone’s theory was lockdowns are so effective. What is going on? 
 

It’s amazing when the theory you subscribe to is violated over and over and you still do not change your mind. 
 

The regulations do little to nothing. It’s a virus and moves through the population in a natural, biological way. We can’t control it. That would only be feasible if there were a handful of cases.

 

 

"Numbers going down what happened?"

 

Check just 4 posts above yours, numbers are going down in highly vaccinated provinces such as Bangkok, Phuket, Chonburi etc which together with the restrictions they had there helped get the numbers down.

 

Other areas such as the Southern Border Provinces where vaccinations are very low and where they had very few restrictions have now overtaken Bangkok in case numbers.

10 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

"Numbers going down what happened?"

 

Check just 4 posts above yours, numbers are going down in highly vaccinated provinces such as Bangkok, Phuket, Chonburi etc which together with the restrictions they had there helped get the numbers down.

 

Other areas such as the Southern Border Provinces where vaccinations are very low and where they had very few restrictions have now overtaken Bangkok in case numbers.

Global House Kalasin reporting 50 positives. Yesterday Kalasin reported 29 cases. Today 143.

 

5 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Global House Kalasin reporting 50 positives. Yesterday Kalasin reported 29 cases. Today 143.

 

Excellent example, Kalasin only has a 23.3% double vaxxed population.