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Thailand on Thursday (November 18) reported 6,901 new COVID-19 cases, 7,556 recoveries and 55 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Infections outside prisons: 6,757. Prisons: 144

▶︎ Recoveries: 7,556

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 2,015,262

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,905,773

 

Thursday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 2,044,125 with 20,254 deaths.

 

The news comes as Thailand’s Prime Minister announced the government has set a target to procure 65 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for next year, including newer versions of the jabs, while more than 70% of the population in 11 provinces have so far received at least one dose of the vaccine.

 

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha said the government has already signed contracts with vaccine suppliers to procure 65 million doses for 2022. He said the government is closely monitoring the development of newer vaccine versions, including those for nasal application, to appropriately plan the country’s inoculation strategy next year.

 

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PCR test positive cases, total of 6,901 official new infections. 55 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,106 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 9,007

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 16 Nov) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1461134538394849281

 

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 13.67 million across Southeast Asia, with 29,901 new cases reported on Wednesday. #COVID19 #Asean #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40008960

I do wonder about ATK tests. I saw someone self administer yesterday. One nostril only but did rotate the swab 5 times. From what I know you need to do both nostrils before putting the swab into the solution vile. How much of this is happening? One nostril only? Not rotating the swab enough or not at all? Not going deep enough? One or all these can result in a false negative. And again does everyone who gets a positive result report it? I believe this to be part of the reason there are less walkins. Just an obsevation and a thought from me. 

Edited November 18, 20214 yr by dinsdale

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

Prime Minister announced the government has set a target to procure 65 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for next year, including newer versions of the jabs

What Thailand does not need is another misstep in vaccine procurement, plenty of evidence from other countries now that unless boosters shots are administered in time then case rates will spiral out of control again. Even with the better vaccines everybody here will need boosters as its clear they work. Please order enough now not when its too late again. Just look at Israel as an example, the forth wave hit and as soon as boosters were deployed its now right back down to more than manageable levels.

 

UK to adapt fully-vaccinated definition to account for boosters

UPDATE: 6,901 confirmed cases, 2,106 probable cases (ATK), and 55 deaths (0.99%). Out of 90,672 patients , 44,038 are in hospital, 34,613 in hospitel and 6,395 in home/community isolation. There are 1,742 in a serious condition (+3) with 406 on ventilators (-1) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1461144810018856961

28 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 6,901 official new infections. 55 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 2,106 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 9,007

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 16 Nov) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

Slowly bumping up from yesterday's PCR cases. If you look at the graph @Bkk Brianposted above you can see how every week we re trending downward but still each week has a curved shaped to the cases where it rises near the end of each week before falling off to the next level. 

 

Could this be because of the weekend testing, a lack of testing or do cases actually ebb and flow like this elsewhere. Not sure but food for thought.

 

I like that cases are dropping but overall they are dropping very slowly.

 

Just had a friend book a hotel down in Hua Hin for the low Krathong weekend. He 8s vaccinated with both AZ vaccines  and his wife with just one AZ jab. The paperwork he received says they need to be vaccinated or test negative 72 hours prior to arrival.  The question he asked me was "is the one Jab of AZ still okay to travel with because of the 12 weeks in between jabs?"

 

I could not answer that for him and he is now concerned they will be denied entry tomorrow night at the hotel.  I told him to go take an ATK test.  Was I wrong?

Phuket, 69 new covid infections, no deaths yesterday.

https://www.facebook.com/NewshawkPhuket/posts/3038657793050723

17 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Slowly bumping up from yesterday's PCR cases. If you look at the graph @Bkk Brianposted above you can see how every week we re trending downward but still each week has a curved shaped to the cases where it rises near the end of each week before falling off to the next level. 

 

Could this be because of the weekend testing, a lack of testing or do cases actually ebb and flow like this elsewhere. Not sure but food for thought.

 

I like that cases are dropping but overall they are dropping very slowly.

 

Just had a friend book a hotel down in Hua Hin for the low Krathong weekend. He 8s vaccinated with both AZ vaccines  and his wife with just one AZ jab. The paperwork he received says they need to be vaccinated or test negative 72 hours prior to arrival.  The question he asked me was "is the one Jab of AZ still okay to travel with because of the 12 weeks in between jabs?"

 

I could not answer that for him and he is now concerned they will be denied entry tomorrow night at the hotel.  I told him to go take an ATK test.  Was I wrong?

This week and 2 previous including ATK:

sun	9687		sun	8401		sun	8429
mon	10605		mon	11749		mon	7498
tues	12144		tues	9565		tues	8020
wed	12168		wed	11767		wed	8553
thur	13543		thur	11996		thur	9007
fri	10618		fri	10156
sat	9336		sat	9950

 

@Bkk Brian

Edited November 18, 20214 yr by dinsdale

27 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

This week and 2 previous including ATK:

sun	9687		sun	8401		sun	8429
mon	10605		mon	11749		mon	7498
tues	12144		tues	9565		tues	8020
wed	12168		wed	11767		wed	8553
thur	13543		thur	11996		thur	9007
fri	10618		fri	10156
sat	9336		sat	9950

 

@Bkk Brian

Definitely a slow bumpy ride downward.

#Chonburi announces 205 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and no new deaths.

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/11/18/chonburi-announces-205-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-no-new-deaths/

Duplicate post (ThaiNews) deleted

 

 

Edited November 18, 20214 yr by anchadian

November 18, 2021
Thai Enquirer Summary

 

What is more worrisome is the fact that as many as 11 million people in the country have not been vaccinated with a single dose yet, these people are in the rural areas, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said.

RETURN of SINOVAC. The highly ineffective SinoVac never seems to die out, the 3 southern provinces that have high infection rates has started to see the return of SinoVac as the 1st shot followed with Pfizer.

 

The reason for the region not getting Pfizer as per the plan is that the CCSA says that such a move would bring about shortage of Pfizer doses in Thailand which they want to use for DOSE 3 for people.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Thai-Enquirer-Summary-November-18-2021.pdf

1 minute ago, anchadian said:

#COVID19: Sharing school vans blamed for COVID infections among students in Ubon Ratchathani

 

https://thaip.bs/FXbM9FK

So no one knows who has been tested or vaccinatec, or if the vans were sanitized between each ride.

Looking at the pic for this article I really hope schools are looking out for more than a fever.  Indeed fever is one of the less common symptoms for the vaccinated. Runny nose, blocked nose, cold like symptoms, persistent cough, stomach upset, loss of taste and smell, sneezing and sore throat are all symptoms none of which can be picked up by testing body temperature on less than reliable body temp scanners. On one rather hot day one of these things showed I was suffering from hypothermia with a body temp. of 32^oC. Forgot to mention asymptomatic.

Edited November 18, 20214 yr by dinsdale

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Looking at the pic for this article I really hope schools are looking out for more than a fever.  Indeed fever is one of the less common symptoms for the vaccinated. Runny nose, blocked nose, cold like symptoms, persistent cough, stomach upset, loss of taste and smell, sneezing and sore throat are all symptoms none of which can be picked up by testing body temperature on less than reliable body temp scanners. On one rather hot day one of these things showed I was suffering from hypothermia with a body temp. of 32^oC.

Going with my GF to her doctor's appointments over the past few months  I have been shown to be 36.3 on the hand scanner, that drops the sanitizer on your hand afterwards, only to be denied entry because the Thermal scanner shows me between 38.5 and 40.5. They then use a hand held scanner they use inside the doctor's office and find I am indeed only 36.3. I also have to show them my vaccination certificate.  The GF has to test 2 days before she goes and so do I. The system is irretrievably fubarred.

819,319 vaccine doses were administered yesterday:

 

5 hours ago, anchadian said:

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 13.67 million across Southeast Asia, with 29,901 new cases reported on Wednesday. #COVID19 #Asean #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40008960

Here in Finland had 1151 new case yesterday! And over 80% from over 12 years old is double vaxxed.

In Finland has under 6 million people and like in Philippines has over 100 million! Im not believe any number what they report in Asean area! They investigate sewer waters here also and they know how much virus is there ! Even whitout testing they know situation if virus is more spread .

1 minute ago, 2 is 1 said:

Here in Finland had 1151 new case yesterday! And over 80% from over 12 years old is double vaxxed.

In Finland has under 6 million people and like in Philippines has over 100 million! Im not believe any number what they report in Asean area! They investigate sewer waters here also and they know how much virus is there ! Even whitout testing they know situation if virus is more spread .

And just what did the sewer water say? Any link Perhaps? 

39 minutes ago, anchadian said:

819,319 vaccine doses were administered yesterday:

 

Just under 3 million boosters given to date, or around 3.5% of those vaccinated have been given a booster, that in itself is a nice to know fact, and then we need to see how many more of those vaccinated with the sinovac still need boosters.  If they are counting the boosters in their quest to get to 100 million vaccinations given then those numbers are a true fallacy in my view.  In order for it to be true that 100 million vaccines have been given there needs to be the caveat that a percentage possibly 3 to 4 % are from booster shots while some folks have never received a single jab yet. Definitely a long way to go to meet the 70% of the population vaccinated that they loudly proclaimed would happen by the end of the year, but have since changed the numbers to 100 million jabs given

28 minutes ago, Olmate said:

And just what did the sewer water say? Any link Perhaps? 

https://www.thl.fi/episeuranta/jatevesi/jatevesiseuranta_viikkoraportti.html

 

Its in Finnish language! But have some "matrix" on it! So it show where has discover more covid virus .

 

Coronavirus monitoring in wastewater

The situational picture of the numbers of coronavirus observed by wastewater monitoring is independent of test activity, and it supports other epidemic indicators. 

Based on wastewater samples collected from this week (from 7 to 8 November), the total amount of coronavirus in Finnish wastewater has increased.

Coronavirus wastewater monitoring data per monitoring point is updated in the weekly report once a week on Fridays at 12 noon.
Coronavirus wastewater monitoring weekly report (in Finnish)

 

 

Edited November 18, 20214 yr by 2 is 1

41 minutes ago, 2 is 1 said:

Here in Finland had 1151 new case yesterday! And over 80% from over 12 years old is double vaxxed.

In Finland has under 6 million people and like in Philippines has over 100 million! Im not believe any number what they report in Asean area! They investigate sewer waters here also and they know how much virus is there ! Even whitout testing they know situation if virus is more spread .

There was a very interesting video conference held last year on Thailand's handling of the pandemic and being interviewed there was a professor from one of the Universities in Bangkok, they were doing exactly that and they were detecting the virus before the outbreak clusters, they let officials know to give them a warning but were not contacted back by them.

39 minutes ago, Olmate said:

And just what did the sewer water say? Any link Perhaps? 

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/stories/2021/hunting-for-covid-answers-in-thailand-wastewater.html

 

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(21)00406-9/pdf

 

 

We need to stop this covid lockdown nonsense now - UK news today , 10,000 new excess deaths now that are NOT covid related but probably caused BY the covid lockdowns. 

 

AstraZeneca COVID-19 antibody drug offers 83% protection over six months

Nov 18 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca (AZN.L) on Thursday cemented its lead in bringing a preventative COVID-19 shot for the non-infected to market for people who do not respond well to vaccines, saying its antibody drug cocktail offered 83% protection over six months.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-antibody-works-prevent-treat-covid-19-longer-term-studies-2021-11-18/

 

23 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

 

 

We need to stop this covid lockdown nonsense now - UK news today , 10,000 new excess deaths now that are NOT covid related but probably caused BY the covid lockdowns. 

 

I've read that but its not saying anything about it being due to covid lockdowns but more because of people not going to hospital because of cancelled appointments or too scared to catch covid so stayed at home rather than go to hospital leading to greater mortality in certain conditions.

New Covid infections on the rise in Chiang Mai but declining elsewhere

 

The Ministry of Public Health said new COVID-19 infections in Thailand are on a downtrend, with the exception of Chiang Mai where the increase in new patients has necessitated the setting up of a ‘field Intensive Care Unit’ with 50 beds capacity for patients with severe symptoms.

 

The increased number of new infections in Chiang Mai has depleted the number of available beds for Covid patients, especially for patients with severe to critical symptoms that were classified under the Orange and Red categories. A ‘field ICU’ with a 50-bed capacity is being set up by Nakornping Hospital at Hall 3 of Chiang Mai International

 

https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG211116210828678

Thailand government organization

Ranking of 10 provinces with highest #COVID19 transmission, as of 18 November 2021

 

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1461264379718995970

Sadly, covid mortality rate remains fairly unchanged at 0.8%.