Dr Witita Jang-iam, Deputy Director of Vachira Phuket Hospital. Photo: Radio Thailand Phuket

 

By The Phuket News

 

PHUKET: Most new infections in Phuket in recent days are from proactive screening of people, including staff, at entertainment venues, a leading Phuket health official has confirmed.

 

Dr Witita Jang-iam, Deputy Director of Vachira Phuket Hospital, the main government hospital on the island, confirmed the news yesterday (Nov 24) through a live radio programme broadcast by Radio thailand Phuket.

 

Dr Witita pointed out that earlier in the programme, Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew had confirmed that the number of new cases had started to rise steadily.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/most-new-infections-from-entertainment-venues-phuket-health-official-82151.php

 

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That would be because they are testing there and not necessarily that they caught it there.  I suspect if you did the same level of testing at shopping centres the numbers would be just as high.

I think if Thailands testing strategy was more robust, the actual number of infected would be far higher.

Feeds nicely into Prayut's narrative of no bars, no alcohol, no fun.........how fortunate!

All the info the government need to not open bars/entertainment venues ????

so they actually did some proactive testing and found cases - that is ground breaking stuff

That's like saying most cases in Esaan are found amongst rice farmers

391 people is not what I'd call mass testing!

They're not exactly learning to live with Covid yet, are they?

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Dr Witita pointed out that earlier in the programme, Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew had confirmed that the number of new cases had started to rise steadily.

If only one had access to 'test positivity ratio', can one measure rising or falling infections.

 

Else, infection rate can be manipulated by the number of tests being done

The comment from this health official is exactly what the entertainment owners needed. Wonder how much she was paid to make the statement?

As is the rest of the world, if not the top MSM news coverage everyday, fear would dwindle and profits would suffer.

Well, there is the ammunition the Government needs to forestall the opening of bars etc.

I thought they were all shut or was it only govt officials in attendance?

49 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

As is the rest of the world, if not the top MSM news coverage everyday, fear would dwindle and profits would suffer.

You are perfectly free to ignore the news but obviously feel compelled to rubbish it.

Others may well be concerned about what is going on.

One can only assume with your level of expertise you will be disputing the statements being made.

 

"“Also the extremely long branch length and incredibly high amount of spike mutations suggest this could be of real concern (predicted escape from most known monoclonal antibodies)."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/botswana-variant-covid-mutations-spike-b1963950.html#comments-area

 

1 minute ago, sandyf said:

You are perfectly free to ignore the news but obviously feel compelled to rubbish it.

555......can't wait to use that line somewhere.

And that's how it all started.

Remember the Muay Thai?

4 hours ago, webfact said:

PHUKET: Most new infections in Phuket in recent days are from proactive screening of people, including staff, at entertainment venues, a leading Phuket health official has confirmed.

It's been like that from the very start of opening back in June, it didn't make any difference.

Nothing was going to reverse the decision.

Yet it's enough to keep places like Pattaya virtually closed.

4 hours ago, dyertribe said:

That would be because they are testing there and not necessarily that they caught it there.  I suspect if you did the same level of testing at shopping centres the numbers would be just as high.

I think if Thailands testing strategy was more robust, the actual number of infected would be far higher.

What it suggests is that staff are employed while either not being fully inoculated or not adhering to cleanliness protocols.

Where else do you think they're catching it?

As most people know when these venues open they just go their own sweet way as before, believing Covid is over and the good old times are back.

37 minutes ago, sandyf said:

One can only assume with your level of expertise you will be disputing the statements being made.

 

I actually ignore any news-blip from MSM or any source with covid in the headline.  Don't need to read the same fear monging echo box over and over.  

Rely on my common sense and free thinking.  Kept me safe all these decades.  Live in fear if you want.  I prefer to live everyday like it's my last.

 

With that, off to the surf, w/ no mask & BYO ???? ... have a good one.

Proactive testing has been ongoing for some time. Starting tomorrow, the outlets closed recently for 3 days will open again, and all staff in all outlets in and around Bangla will be tested. If negative, they are issued with a certificate which they must carry with them at work. Any outlets not complying will be closed. Same again next Friday.....

And what percentage of staff tested positive for the virus? 99.6% based on the sample of 391 cases.

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

You are perfectly free to ignore the news but obviously feel compelled to rubbish it.

Others may well be concerned about what is going on.

One can only assume with your level of expertise you will be disputing the statements being made.

 

"“Also the extremely long branch length and incredibly high amount of spike mutations suggest this could be of real concern (predicted escape from most known monoclonal antibodies)."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/botswana-variant-covid-mutations-spike-b1963950.html#comments-area

 

In general the MSM do not report a balanced news, it is biased one way or the other, they only report the news they want to you to hear, it could called  propaganda. Now of course some folks know that and choose not to read or react to it.  Some people of course actually believe the BBC or CNN or MSNBC just to pick out a few, but obviously there are more.  Do the MSM tell outright lies, yes sometimes, then they get sued, but mostly they spin it to fit their own narrative.

People - Every night in my little neighbourhood, people are gathering on a side street

with beer and no mask, sitting close together and being very happy...

Of course they will pass on their germs !   Is that so difficult to understand ?

Beer and friends makes happy, close together, passing on all sorts of germs including

covid 19.   

Keep the booze places locked ....................the neighbourhood get togethers are enough

Could it be all part of the Covid 2019 plan 2020.2021. 2022 and on 

 

Random IQ Tests will also demonstrate a large number of stupid people.

3 hours ago, madmitch said:

391 people is not what I'd call mass testing!

Maybe they were all Catholics.

2 hours ago, dallen52 said:

And that's how it all started.

Remember the Muay Thai?

Perhaps you mis remember how it all started ?  anyway  a rather interesting study from the source.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w?fbclid=IwAR0-RMOGRpCv6f6PLAxTjnw8-hNCLqmilbUFxMi2iSZEAefZem4PVBD_mK4

 

 

"

The citywide nucleic acid screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan recruited nearly 10 million people, and found no newly confirmed cases with COVID-19. The detection rate of asymptomatic positive cases was very low, and there was no evidence of transmission from asymptomatic positive persons to traced close contacts. There were no asymptomatic positive cases in 96.4% of the residential communities.

Previous studies have shown that asymptomatic individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus were infectious³, and might subsequently become symptomatic⁴. Compared with symptomatic patients, asymptomatic infected persons generally have low quantity of viral loads and a short duration of viral shedding, which decrease the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2⁵. In the present study, virus culture was carried out on samples from asymptomatic positive cases, and found no viable SARS-CoV-2 virus. All close contacts of the asymptomatic positive cases tested negative, indicating that the asymptomatic positive cases detected in this study were unlikely to be infectious.

There was a low repositive rate in recovered COVID-19 patients in Wuhan. Results of virus culturing and contract tracing found no evidence that repositive cases in recovered COVID-19 patients were infectious, which is consistent with evidence from other sources. A study in Korea found no confirmed COVID-19 cases by monitoring 790 contacts of 285 repositive cases⁶. The official surveillance of recovered COVID-19 patients in China also revealed no evidence on the infectiousness of repositive cases⁷."

6 hours ago, dyertribe said:

That would be because they are testing there and not necessarily that they caught it there.  I suspect if you did the same level of testing at shopping centres the numbers would be just as high.

I think if Thailands testing strategy was more robust, the actual number of infected would be far higher.

But that would scare away the tourists they are now pleading to come.

4 hours ago, KhunLA said:

As is the rest of the world, if not the top MSM news coverage everyday, fear would dwindle and profits would suffer.

Correct, they must keep up the scare tactics 

Anti-nightlife govt propaganda. Ridiculous.