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Thailand on Thursday (November 11) reported 7,496 new COVID-19 cases, 7,452 recoveries and 57 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 1,968,106

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,853,210

 

Thursday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 1,996,969 with 19,883 deaths.

 

The news comes as General Supot Malaniyom, Secretary-General of the National Security Council (NSC), gave an interview to the Associated Press yesterday afternoon, November 10th, regarding the general situations, plans, and concerns of the Covid-19 situation during the country’s reopening.

 

The General is also prominent with the “small” Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration, or CCSA, proposal committee that specifically proposes and deals with restrictions and measures in the country. These proposals are then sent to the “full” CCSA committee chaired by Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan O’Cha.

 

Supot said that the overall situation is going well. There may be some minor problems since the reopening but related agencies have managed to solve them already.

 

*The Pattaya News contributed to this report

 

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Looks like we have a slight uptick on that bumpy ride down in the total number of cases.  I wonder how many are prison numbers, and how the Hospital beds are doing, as far as percentage available.  Wonder if it is because they increased the ability to test more of what?

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1458596803452932096

 

Just now, anchadian said:

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1458596803452932096

 

240 from prisons, Thank you @anchadian

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 13.48 million across Southeast Asia, with 30,200 new cases reported on Wednesday.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40008659

10 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Looks like we have a slight uptick on that bumpy ride down in the total number of cases.  I wonder how many are prison numbers, and how the Hospital beds are doing, as far as percentage available.  Wonder if it is because they increased the ability to test more of what?

Still waiting for the official dashboard to update yet so not sure about ATK's yet either

12 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Looks like we have a slight uptick on that bumpy ride down in the total number of cases.  I wonder how many are prison numbers, and how the Hospital beds are doing, as far as percentage available.  Wonder if it is because they increased the ability to test more of what?

Maybe but I think testing remains pretty much the same which is low and this is reflected in the daily numbers which jump up and down a bit but no real sharp drop or increase. Those in care seems to have remained just under 100k for a long time now.

PCR test positive cases, total of 7,496 official new infections. 57 official covid deaths recorded, the lowest for months.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 3,152 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 10,648

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 9 Nov) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

@brewsterbudgen On the Covid front and for the school openings here in BKK, we just received a call from the GF's daughters teacher.  THe call was to indicate that the reopening for the lower grades at the Wat School we have her in will be postponed for a few months.  They will be opening up to the upper grades which are those 11, 12 and upwards as they will have been vaccinated while the younger ones not vaccinated. 

 

The director is concerned about the lack of ability to monitor all students, and the younger students lack of self control, in order to keep them socially distanced as they would be in the classrooms, and away from playing with each other during breaks such as recess.  The director is afraid of what happened elsewhere occurring at their school.  He is looking at the upper grades starting Monday the 15th, and monitoring the situation there.  If cases do not appear, because of the strict control they will be instituting, then the director believes in a few months they may be able to allow the lower grades to return.  Until then it is daily on-line classes

 

All teachers have been fully vaccinated and only those students 11, 12 and above who have been vaccinated will be able to attend school.

Edited November 11, 20214 yr by ThailandRyan

6 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 7,496 official new infections. 57 official covid deaths recorded, the lowest for months.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 3,152 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 10,648

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 9 Nov) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

Looking at the graph you can see the fluctuations as the numbers trend downward.  It is no wonder that the PM and CCSA want to wait to open up the entertainment venues and bars in areas.  Will not bode well for the tourists who come for two weeks of fun in the sun as far as entertainment after a day of the water, at the beach or whatever. 

 

I am sure that those folks who have been waiting and saying it will only be time before all is opened have to go back and rethink what they see as far as this goes.  Lets hope that there are no major outbreaks and a new wave that occurs due to the upcoming Loy Krathong festival and extended holidays.

UPDATE: 7,496 confirmed cases, 3,152 probable cases (ATK), and 57 deaths (1.00%). Out of 96,450 patients , 43,184 are in hospital, 40,720 in hospitel and 6,484 in home/community isolation. There are 1,846 in a serious condition (-31) with 425 on ventilators (+2) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1458615001468444672

 

 

 

 

Taken from today's Thaienquirer summary:

 

Meanwhile Public Health Minister – Anutin Charvirakul, has come out to say that he’s thankful to all sides (opposition and others) for recommending not to ride on a single horse but to diversify the vaccine procurement and this has paid of as we have all sorts of vaccine now.

 

 Thailand under Anutin’s management had only gone for the ineffective SinoVac and the AstraZeneca that is produced by Siam BioScience (a company owned by HM the King) as the only vaccine for Thailand until the public and opposition called for diversification of vaccine procurement as the DELTA variant spread like wild fire.

 

 Anutin came out to say yesterday that he was thankful for the recommendation which has helped Thailand procure all kinds of vaccine now.  He himself said that he was going to take his 4th dose, as he took 2 does of SinoVac then 1 dose of AstraZeneca but he is set to go to Switzerland later this month and Switzerland does not allow this mixing therefore have to get 4th dose before he goes there.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Thai-Enquirer-Summary-November-11-2021.pdf

 

 

27 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

Taken from today's Thaienquirer summary:

 

Meanwhile Public Health Minister – Anutin Charvirakul, has come out to say that he’s thankful to all sides (opposition and others) for recommending not to ride on a single horse but to diversify the vaccine procurement and this has paid of as we have all sorts of vaccine now.

 

 Thailand under Anutin’s management had only gone for the ineffective SinoVac and the AstraZeneca that is produced by Siam BioScience (a company owned by HM the King) as the only vaccine for Thailand until the public and opposition called for diversification of vaccine procurement as the DELTA variant spread like wild fire.

 

 Anutin came out to say yesterday that he was thankful for the recommendation which has helped Thailand procure all kinds of vaccine now.  He himself said that he was going to take his 4th dose, as he took 2 does of SinoVac then 1 dose of AstraZeneca but he is set to go to Switzerland later this month and Switzerland does not allow this mixing therefore have to get 4th dose before he goes there.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Thai-Enquirer-Summary-November-11-2021.pdf

 

 

A fool of the highest order and should be nowhere near the procurement procedure of vaccines. Jets off after his forth dose while there are still people in Thailand waiting for their first.

 

Even AstraZeneca told him not to rely on them alone right at the beginning of this.

The daily new infection numbers over the past 7 days including ATK is 73,432 with a daily average of 10,490. The numbers for the previous 7 days are 79,185 and 11,312. That's an 822 drop in daily average. I wouldn't call this significant but it is a drop.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 11, 20214 yr by dinsdale

6 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

The daily new infection numbers over the past 7 days including ATK is 73,432 with a daily average of 10,490. The numbers for the previous 7 days are 79,185 and 11,312. That's an 822 drop in daily average. I wouldn't call this significant but it is a drop.

 

Unfortunately that's not reflected in the number of those being treated in real hospitals 43,184 which has not shown a decrease yet since Oct.

Just now, Bkk Brian said:

Unfortunately that's not reflected in the number of those being treated in real hospitals 43,184 which has not shown a decrease yet since Oct.

That's correct. The number of those under care as I said above has hardly moved from 100k. The infection numbers are as we have said before to be taken with a grain of salt because of the testing rate here. 

11 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

The daily new infection numbers over the past 7 days including ATK is 73,432 with a daily average of 10,490. The numbers for the previous 7 days are 79,185 and 11,312. That's an 822 drop in daily average. I wouldn't call this significant but it is a drop.

 

 

 

 

Would it be significant to you if it rose in the past 7 days? 

Parliament expected to consider legislation to replace COVID-19 Emergency Decree

 

(BANGKOK, November 11, 2021)—The Government of Thailand should immediately publish information on the Cabinet-approved draft amendments to the 2015 Communicable Diseases Act and ensure the amendments align with international human rights law, Fortify Rights and 9 other organizations said today in an open letter to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

“Transparency is especially critical during a public health emergency,” said Amy Smith, Executive Director of Fortify Rights. “The Thai government should ensure public access to information on new legislation that may soon govern the country’s response to COVID-19 and have far-reaching impacts on the lives of people in Thailand.”

 

https://www.fortifyrights.org/tha-inv-2021-11-11/

14 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

The daily new infection numbers over the past 7 days including ATK is 73,432 with a daily average of 10,490. The numbers for the previous 7 days are 79,185 and 11,312. That's an 822 drop in daily average. I wouldn't call this significant but it is a drop.

 

 

 

 

Yes it is clearly a drop in cases, but then the testing is always suspect and as I said before it has been a long bumpy ride downwards.

Just now, Olmate said:

Would it be significant to you if it rose in the past 7 days? 

Not if it rose by this amount. So no it wouldn't. Up or down I don't think it's significant.

 

 

Latest up to to date official data from the worldometer ranking table for deaths/million of population over the past 7 days, including yesterday’s numbers, shows Thailand remain at 70th in the world, 25 places below the UK.

 

Same table shows Thailand remain at 14th in Asia, 5 places below the Philippines and 2 places above Vietnam. 
 

The number of deaths over the past week remained very low at 6 deaths/million of population, trending down 8% over the 7 day period, with the number of official infections also falling 10%. . 

 

70

Thailand

54,031

60,127

-10%

771

432

472

-8%

6

70,037,884

 

With the increase in local travel, holidays, festivals etc and the further relaxations expected in the coming weeks leading up the main tourism arrivals for Xmas/New Year, we may see an upward spike, but as been stated previously the country now has to get on, and learn to live with it. 

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

17 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Not if it rose by this amount. So no it wouldn't. Up or down I don't think it's significant.

 

 

Hold that thought!! 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Supot said that the overall situation is going well. There may be some minor problems since the reopening but related agencies have managed to solve them already.

You're wrong Supot, the Thailand Pass website is buggy and unreliable still, those testing negative and being forced into quarantine for 2 weeks are not pleased at all and finding insurance to cover such a situation is a challenge.

6 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Thailand remain at 70th in the world, 25 places below the UK.

 

What's the point of posting this day in day out? It's completely irrelevant considering the amount of testing they do.

It's encouraging to see there hasn't been a large spike in cases since easing the restrictions at the start of November.

 

Anecdotally, I went to a well known Irish pub in lower Sukhumvit last week and it was so packed there was nowhere to sit. We had to find another place. That level of socialising with no big spike shows me there is light at the end of the tunnel.

 

  

While these guys are patting themselves on the back - high five my man - the people I know in my neighborhood still are not vaccinated.  They are waiting for Moderna.  Where is it?  They are afraid to mix the vaccines as they know this has not been tested.  And when we do go to get the mixed vaccines I observe clear, unorganized, undersupplied, chaotic superspreader events for sure.  This is in Chiang Mai right now where there are record cases and they can not even clean my car due to the cleaners getting COVID quarantine.  So I really do appreciate their efforts and I am encouraged by the good vaccination numbers - but this truly could be better and certainly better organized with more transparent communication.

9 minutes ago, Pravda said:

 

What's the point of posting this day in day out? It's completely irrelevant considering the amount of testing they do.

Because I can. Same that other posters can post their school updates and what uniforms they will be wearing but I don't see you questioning them. 
 

 That’s is your opinion. Feel free to post something you feel is relevant if you wish as opposed to nit picking. 
 

 

15 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

It's encouraging to see there hasn't been a large spike in cases since easing the restrictions at the start of November.

 

Anecdotally, I went to a well known Irish pub in lower Sukhumvit last week and it was so packed there was nowhere to sit. We had to find another place. That level of socialising with no big spike shows me there is light at the end of the tunnel.

 

  

Agreed, then Bangkok with a 91.5% one of the highest in the world fully vaccinated population then so there should be, but still bars and many schools closed, go figure......

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Agreed, then Bangkok with a 91.5% one of the highest in the world fully vaccinated population then so there should be, but still bars and many schools closed, go figure......

 

One thing to keep in mind about the vax stats for BKK that the government uses is.... they're using an artificially low population number of 7+ million, from an old, outdated census. The more recent figure from their newer census is 10+ million, which if used, would make their vax rate for BKK look considerably less.

 

Another example of playing with the numbers to make them look better than they are....

 

Kind of similar to the linguistic gymnastics they've often taken to lately talking about the shares of people who have been "vaccinated" -- which you might think means "fully vaccinated," but instead in their use often means just one shot. They've been consciously blurring the lines between "vaccinated" and "fully vaccinated."

 

 

28 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

One thing to keep in mind about the vax stats for BKK that the government uses is.... they're using an artificially low population number of 7+ million, from an old, outdated census. The more recent figure from their newer census is 10+ million, which if used, would make their vax rate for BKK look considerably less.

 

Another example of playing with the numbers to make them look better than they are....

 

Kind of similar to the linguistic gymnastics they've often taken to lately talking about the shares of people who have been "vaccinated" -- which you might think means "fully vaccinated," but instead in their use often means just one shot. They've been consciously blurring the lines between "vaccinated" and "fully vaccinated."

 

 

You're right, the tracker I referred to is also using that outdated census, quoting 7.6 million.

 

In the real world it is 10.539 million as of 2020

Edited November 11, 20214 yr by Bkk Brian