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Thailand on Tuesday (November 30) reported 4,306 new COVID-19 cases, 6,407 recoveries and 37 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Infections outside prisons: 4,183. Prisons: 123

▶︎ Recoveries: 6,407

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 2,087,009

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 1,992,002

 

Tuesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 2,115,872 with 20,771 deaths.

 

The news comes as public health authorities have now confirmed that the RT-PCR method is capable of detecting the new variant and the method is still in use globally.

 

Department of Medical sciences Director-General Supakit Sirilak said his department has been constantly checking the genomes of the coronavirus and feeding reports into the GISAID global database that provides access to genomic data of influenza viruses. With the appearance of the Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19, which is considered a variant of concern by the World Health Organization, the department has yet to discover the variant among 8 recently collected samples or from the 75 other samples collected since Thailand’s reopening to international visitors on November 1. All of the said samples were of the Delta variant and subvariants.

 

Dr. Supakit asserted that if Omicron variants make their way into the country, his department will quickly discover them as the variant identification process at 15 medical science centers nationwide is now being adjusted to focus on the Omicron variant. 

*NNT contributed to this report

 

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PCR test positive cases, total of 4,306 official new infections. 37 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 1,744 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 6,050

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 28 Nov) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

Phuket 93 new cases no covid deaths

https://www.facebook.com/NewshawkPhuket/posts/3047021615547674

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1465485903904722944

 

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 14.04 million across Southeast Asia, with 25,900 new cases reported on Monday. #Asean #COVID19 #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40009424

37 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 4,306 official new infections. 37 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 1,744 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 6,050

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 28 Nov) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

Looking at the top graph one can see a very sharp rise with a very long and slow decline.  Nice to see the numbers dropping but vigilance is a must.

 

Drove home to BKK this morning early and when I stopped to pick up some items for breakfast half of the folks were not wearing masks.  Folks are seeing the numbers drop and tourists arriving and feel that they are safe.

 

With that said, last night I watched many groups of Thais sitting on the Hua Hin beach in groups 10+, eating and drinking alcohol as if there was not a care in the world.

Edited November 30, 20214 yr by ThailandRyan

25 cases in Cambodia Absaloutly amazing ,maybe they  have  the right idea, no symptoms no test ,it seems to work. 

Many Thais still think, as they are fully vaccinated now, they are safe. 

That's a problem. 

This is what happened for November. Click the pic.

 

Infections+ATK: Nov
mon 1	10605	mon 8	11749	mon 15	7498	mon 22	7935	mon 29	6360
tues	12144	tues	9565	tues	8020	tues	6642	tues	6050
wed	12168	wed	11767	wed	8553	wed	7717	daily av.	6205
thur	13543	thur	11996	thur	9007	thur	8726	total	12410
fri	10618	fri	10156	fri	9491	fri	9365	Full Month
sat	9336	sat	9950	sat	9607	sat	10333	daily av.	9430
sun	8401	sun	8429	sun	9698	sun	7476	Mth. Total	282905
total	76815	total	10516	total	61874	total	58194
daily av.	10974	daily av.	10516	daily av.	8839	daily av.	8313
Deaths: November
Mon 1	55	Mon 8	39	Mon 15	45	Mon 22	49	Mon 29	26
t	78	t	61	t	62	t	53	t	37
w	56	w	62	w	56	w	55	Daily Av.	32
t	68	t	57	t	55	t	37	Total	63
f	80	f	51	f	51	f	64	Full Month
s	69	s	55	s	53	s	32	daily av.	52
s	53	s	47	s	29	s	30	Mth. Total	1565
Daily Av.	66	Daily Av.	53	Daily Av.	50	Daily Av.	46
Total	459	Total	372	Total	351	Total	320
In Care:	November 1 - 99,227		November 30 - 75673

Edited November 30, 20214 yr by dinsdale

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

the department has yet to discover the variant among 8 recently collected samples or from the 75 other samples collected since Thailand’s reopening to international visitors on November 1. All of the said samples were of the Delta variant and subvariants.

That's one way to not find Omicron in Thailand, a pitiful lack of sequencing.

UPDATE: 4,306 confirmed cases, 1,744 probable cases (ATK), and 37 deaths (0.98%). Out of 75,673 patients , 34,970 are in hospital, 29,825 in hospitel and 5,377 in home/community isolation. There are 1,353 in a serious condition (-16) with 329 on ventilators (-1) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1465494874661081091

Another small decrease in cases from 83 previously reported.

 

Health officials on Monday (Nov 29) reported 60 new COVID-19 cases, 34 were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 6 cases were found in Pranburi, 3 cases in Sam Roi Yot, No- case in Kuiburi.

2 cases found in Thap Sakae, 8 cases in Bang Saphan, zero cases in Bang Saphan Noi, and 7 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan. No deaths were reported today.

Hua Hin was the district which accounted for most cases today, while 2 new clusters were also discovered at the Military School Hua Hin, which has resulted in a cumulative total of 31 cases, and a cluster at Khao Noi Subdistrict’s Delivery Company, which has cumulative total of 17 cases.

 

Nov 29: Prachuap reports 60 new COVID-19 cases, 34 cases in Hua Hin - Hua Hin Today English Newspaper Info, Reports, Events and News Social Life

Apologies. Above spreadsheet contains an error and now too late to change. Wk 2 total is 76,312. 

I was talking to my sister in Italy and she is worried as covid cases are rising fast, same in Greece where my brother is, and as I hear in other European countries. And all of these countries  have a significantly higher rate of vaccinations with a better quality of vaccines.

So why are cases on the decline here in Thailand with a lower rate of vaccinating and on the rise in Europe? Is it under reporting in Thailand ? is it that we are behind the curve and it is coming here also. Is it that it was here already and we got through it? 

Or is it something else? 

2 minutes ago, sirineou said:

I was talking to my sister in Italy and she is worried as covid cases are rising fast, same in Greece where my brother is, and as I hear in other European countries. And all of these countries  have a significantly higher rate of vaccinations with a better quality of vaccines.

So why are cases on the decline here in Thailand with a lower rate of vaccinating and on the rise in Europe? Is it under reporting in Thailand ? is it that we are behind the curve and it is coming here also. Is it that it was here already and we got through it? 

Or is it something else? 

Something else is probably an absolutely dismal number of tests. Under reporting? Maybe this is a factor with home ATK tests. 

Taken from the Thai Enquirer

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Thai-Enquirer-Summary-November-30-2021.pdf

3 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Taken from the Thai Enquirer

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Thai-Enquirer-Summary-November-30-2021.pdf

Says it all about reactivity. There's nothing to worry about because as of yet we don't know the details. Proactive is worry UNTIL you know the details.

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Something else is probably an absolutely dismal number of tests. Under reporting? Maybe this is a factor with home ATK tests. 

Not sure if it under reporting by the goverment as a mater of policy, though I would not be surprised if it was. I think that many poorer Thais are apprehensive about being tested when they don't feel well, so the soldier  through it, and recover,  thus the infection  goes under reported.   

9 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Says it all about reactivity. There's nothing to worry about because as of yet we don't know the details. Proactive is worry UNTIL you know the details.

Regardless of the Thai government saying that there is no use of panicking, nothing is stopping you from panicking if that's what you want.

1 minute ago, jerrymahoney said:

Regardless of the Thai government saying that there is no use of panicking, nothing is stopping you from panicking if that's what you want.

Not panicking but governments should be proactive not reactive. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/29/us/politics/biden-omicron-variant-travel-ban.html

 

But several public health experts expressed outrage at the bans, saying they punished South Africa for doing what the United States expected of other nations: tracking the coronavirus, identifying worrisome variants and making the information public.

 

“Travel restrictions are exactly the wrong incentive to give to countries when you want them to share data,” said Gregg Gonsalves, an activist and associate professor of epidemiology at Yale University. “You want them to be on the lookout for new variants, and you shut your borders?”

1 hour ago, Daithi85 said:

25 cases in Cambodia Absaloutly amazing ,maybe they  have  the right idea, no symptoms no test ,it seems to work. 

We can learn something from Cambodia success which even outpaced wealthier neighbouring South East countries in their vaccination drive. They mandate vaccines, hard on misinformation, low level of vaccine hesitancy and quick to receive the 27 million doses out of the 30 million required from China. 

53 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Says it all about reactivity. There's nothing to worry about because as of yet we don't know the details. Proactive is worry UNTIL you know the details.

Indeed, proactive is prepare for the worst and hope for the best. This is what all good scientists do especially when faced with an unknown foe as Omicron currently is. Its reflective of how we all should prepare.

Health Ministry Prepares Serious Defense against Omicron

 

BANGKOK, Nov 30 (TNA) – Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha said the Public Health Ministry seriously prepared itself to cope with the newly found Omicron variant of COVID-19 and visitors would continue to be tested for the disease with the RT-PCR technique.

 

Mr. Sathit said that the emergency operation center of the Public Health Ministry this morning discussed responses to the Omicron variant. Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul attended the meeting online from abroad and ordered serious responses including intensified screening procedures on visitors. The authorities are considering suspending the decision to replace RT-PCR tests with antigen tests for air travellers following the emergence of the Covid 19 variant Omicron.

 

https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-833655

37 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul attended the meeting online from abroad and ordered serious responses including intensified screening procedures on visitors. The authorities are considering suspending the decision to replace RT-PCR tests with antigen tests for air travellers following the emergence of the Covid 19 variant Omicron.

How about screening and testing more folks in the country to maybe, oh say...possibly get ahead of this issue and check to see if it has not arrived in country already and is not showing any more than few symptoms like the common cold would show.  Just got back in from making a trip to Makro, and the hacking and coughing I was hearing was disturbing,  Employee's obviously showing symptoms of some kind of issue as well as customers.

Thailand's booster spacing released by CCSA yesterday:

 

3. Vaccination needle (Needle 3)

Sinovac + Sinovac + Astrazeneca, the distance after 2 injections of 4 months or more.

Sinovac + Sinovac + Pfizer, distance after 2 injections of 4 months or more

Sinovac + Sinovac + Moderna, distance after 2 injections from 4 weeks or more.

Sino Farm + Sino Farm + AstraZeneca Distance after 2 injections from 4 months or more

Sino Farm + Sino Farm + Pfizer The distance after 2 injections is 4 months or more.

Sino Farm + Sino Farm + Moderna The distance after 2 injections from 4 weeks or more.

AstraZeneca + AstraZeneca + Pfizer Distance after 2 injections 6 months or more

Astrazeneca + Astrazeneca + Moderna, distance after 2 injections of 6 months or more.

https://www.thairath.co.th/news/politic/2253691

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/291164.pdf

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Thailand's booster spacing released by CCSA yesterday:

 

3. Vaccination needle (Needle 3)

Sinovac + Sinovac + Astrazeneca, the distance after 2 injections of 4 months or more.

Sinovac + Sinovac + Pfizer, distance after 2 injections of 4 months or more

Sinovac + Sinovac + Moderna, distance after 2 injections from 4 weeks or more.

Sino Farm + Sino Farm + AstraZeneca Distance after 2 injections from 4 months or more

Sino Farm + Sino Farm + Pfizer The distance after 2 injections is 4 months or more.

Sino Farm + Sino Farm + Moderna The distance after 2 injections from 4 weeks or more.

AstraZeneca + AstraZeneca + Pfizer Distance after 2 injections 6 months or more

Astrazeneca + Astrazeneca + Moderna, distance after 2 injections of 6 months or more.

https://www.thairath.co.th/news/politic/2253691

https://media.thaigov.go.th/uploads/public_img/source/291164.pdf

Nice to see that they have prepared for the boosters for those of us who received the AZ vaccine.  I will hit my 6th month just after I return to Thailand from my trip abroad to the US.  I am also prepared for the worst of doing 2 weeks in an AQ somewhere, but hopefully it can be done in the Sandbox.

Special Technique to Detect Omicron

 

Dr. Supakit Sirilak, director-general of the department, said that as there had not been a particular kind of solution for tests for the Omicron variant of COVID-19, the department would develop special solution for Omicron testing in particular. He expected the development to be successful in about two weeks.

 

https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-833828

Chonburi announces 170 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and one new death

 

Highlights:

• 170 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today

• 219 people recovered and were released from medical care

• 1 new death

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/11/30/chonburi-announces-170-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-one-new-death/

Moderna chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle with Omicron

The chief executive of Moderna has predicted that existing vaccines will be much less effective at tackling Omicron than earlier strains of Covid-19 and warned it would take months before pharmaceutical companies can manufacture new variant-specific jabs at scale.

 

https://www.ft.com/content/27def1b9-b9c8-47a5-8e06-72e432e0838f