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Thailand on Monday (December 6) reported 4,000 new COVID-19 cases, 6,450 recoveries and 22 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Infections outside prisons: 3,973. Prisons: 27

▶︎ Recoveries: 6,450

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 2,116,378

▶︎ Total recoveries since since April 1: 2,027,839

 

Monday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 2,145,241 with 20,966 deaths.

 

The news comes as Germany has removed Thailand from its list of COVID-19 high-risk countries, effective from yesterday (Sunday), under which people arriving from Thailand can enter Germany without the need for quarantine, if they are fully inoculated with either BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Johnson&Johnson vaccines, according to the webpage of the Royal Thai Embassy in Berlin.

 

Despite the exemption from mandatory quarantine, the embassy said that Thai travellers to Germany must still carry a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test result, produced within the 72 hours prior to arrival, or 48 hours in the case of a negative antigen test result.

 

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PCR test positive cases, total of 4,000 official new infections. 22 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 1,157 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 5,157

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 4rd Dec) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

 

Phuket 86 new cases with no new deaths

https://www.facebook.com/phuketinfocenter/posts/439454721043043

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1467656130746748932

 

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

The news comes as Germany has removed Thailand from its list of COVID-19 high-risk countries, effective from yesterday (Sunday), under which people arriving from Thailand can enter Germany without the need for quarantine, if they are fully inoculated with either BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca or Johnson&Johnson vaccines, according to the webpage of the Royal Thai Embassy in Berlin.

Thats excludes around 50% of people vaccinated in Thailand then who had either Sinovac or Sinopharm

The number of Covid-19 cases crossed 14.21 million across Southeast Asia, with 26,362 new cases reported on Sunday (December 5). #ASEAN #COVID19 #thailand #ThailandNews #TheNationThailand

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40009655

18 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 4,000 official new infections. 22 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 1,157 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 5,157

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 4rd Dec) and bar chart of both PCR and ATK totals

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

 

A comparative drop to a day back in the past of Tuesday October 26th.  Lets hope there is no upward bounce like we saw back then in both ATK positives and Case positives.

 

On another front we received a message dated last Friday that school would not be reopening for in person earning for the rest of this term, which in itself is very frustrating.  Looks like a 3 day school week on-line as well due to todays holiday and Fridays constitution day.  The reason they gave was not just covid but the uncertainty and extra pressure being put on the school system by the government.  Without the extra funds to be put in place they can not put the extra required measures into place.

 

 

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

A comparative drop to a day back in the past of Tuesday October 26th.  Lets hope there is no upward bounce like we saw back then in both ATK positives and Case positives.

 

On another front we received a message dated last Friday that school would not be reopening for in person earning for the rest of this term, which in itself is very frustrating.  Looks like a 3 day school week on-line as well due to todays holiday and Fridays constitution day.  The reason they gave was not just covid but the uncertainty and extra pressure being put on the school system by the government.  Without the extra funds to be put in place they can not put the extra required measures into place.

 

 

I would bet my bottom dollar the UK will not close schools again.

Recent terrible case of abuse here in the news and possibly a teacher would have spotted this issue of abuse going on in the home.

Thailand educational response to this pandemic has been as bad as its dreadfully slow vaccination campaign and non existent testing and sequencing.

Latest positive data another large fall in the number of deaths recorded over the past 7 days  dropping another 26% along with a further reduction of 18% in the number of new infections according to the worldometer table. 

 

Still no reports of the new Omicron variant 

 

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

 

89

Thailand

34,428

42,232

-18%

491

237

320

-26%

3

70,049,814

It has arrived.

 

#Thailand found first case of #Omicron, an American who arrived from Spain, the government said on Monday.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1467715290976833536

 

Full report:

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2021/12/06/thailand-detects-first-case-of-omicron-variant-healthmin-says/

 

Just now, anchadian said:

It has arrived.

 

#Thailand found first case of #Omicron, an American who arrived from Spain, the government said on Monday.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1467715290976833536

 

I see a post above is already out of date then......lol

 

It was only a matter of time, there's going to be lots more to come unfortunately.

8 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

I see a post above is already out of date then......lol

 

It was only a matter of time, there's going to be lots more to come unfortunately.

Yes sir, just wait another few hours and even this one could be out of date, but then with anything Covid numbers sometimes do change hourly as cases are sequenced no matter what some want to think.

186,386  Vaccine doses administered yesterday.

Total doses: 95,437,744

59 minutes ago, anchadian said:

It has arrived.

 

#Thailand found first case of #Omicron, an American who arrived from Spain, the government said on Monday.

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/1467715290976833536

 

Full report:

 

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/crimecourtscalamity/2021/12/06/thailand-detects-first-case-of-omicron-variant-healthmin-says/

 

59 minutes ago, anchadian said:

 

The patient is an American citizen who has been living in Spain for one year. He tested negative in Spain on 28th November. He flew to #Thailand on 29th November via Dubai where he spent 9 hours. Arrived on 30th November. Did test and went straight to room. Test results positive.

 

(cont.) The man had a negative PCR test before boarding the flight from Spain to Thailand on Nov 29, was tested positive for #COVID19 upon arrival here on Dec 1 in quarantine, then hospitalized with no symptoms. Sequencing a few days later detected the #Omicron variant.

 

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1467725853383557125

 

(Cont.) The man is vaccinated against #COVID19 (1 dose of J&J in June) and generally had not a lot of contacts upon arrival in #Thailand. Nevertheless,

@thaimoph

is investigating 17 hotel staff and 2 airport staff who were in contact with him (albeit not close). #Omicron

Let's really hope that Omicron is less severe & vaccines still offer protection from hospitalization. 

51 minutes ago, anchadian said:

186,386  Vaccine doses administered yesterday.

Total doses: 95,437,744

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

Mon 29th: 297,973

Tue 30th: 573,073

Wed 1st: 521,693

Thu 2nd: 527,092

Fri 3rd: 250,909

Sat 4th: 720,201

Sun 5th: 186,386

 

TOTAL: 95,437,744 doses since 28 Feb

 

59.0% of the population fully vaccinated

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1467733064251895812

 

36 minutes ago, garygooner said:

Let's really hope that Omicron is less severe & vaccines still offer protection from hospitalization. 

Good early signs from SA. 
 

Less need for oxygen with shorter  stays in hospital. 

No spike in deaths seen even as cases increase. 

Still  early doors to read too much for Omicron but early signs look promising and a good read. 

 

https://www.samrc.ac.za/news/tshwane-district-omicron-variant-patient-profile-early-features

Seems every day consistently bad for Vietnam.

 

21 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

 

Good early signs from SA. 
 

Less need for oxygen with shorter  stays in hospital. 

No spike in deaths seen even as cases increase. 

Still  early doors to read too much for Omicron but early signs look promising and a good read. 

 

https://www.samrc.ac.za/news/tshwane-district-omicron-variant-patient-profile-early-features

Yes very early considering that 80% of the patients in the above were under 50 years old so it would be expected to be mild regardless in the majority of them and with the caveat that:

 

"It is essential to recognize that the patient information presented here only represents the first two weeks of the Omicron wave in Tshwane. The clinical profile of admitted patients could change significantly over the next two weeks, by which time we can draw conclusions about the severity of disease with greater precision."

 

"we have seen a sharp rise in admissions at the Steve Biko Academic and Tshwane District Hospitals (SBAH/TDH) Complex with 166 new admissions between 14 and 29 November 2021."

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

(Cont.) The man is vaccinated against #COVID19 (1 dose of J&J in June) and generally had not a lot of contacts upon arrival in #Thailand. Nevertheless,

@thaimoph

is investigating 17 hotel staff and 2 airport staff who were in contact with him (albeit not close). #Omicron

One dose of J&J in June is not the best protection for travelling 6 months later but regardless had it not been him it would have been somebody else. Now lets see how Thailand responds to Omicron when it is actually in the community rather than found in a SHA hotel. 

 

Sensible measures yes, drastic knee jerk reactions no thanks, its already known this variant is highly transmissible so once it there's not a lot stopping it. Focus as usual is expedite vaccinations and boosters along with the other known measures.

 

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Seems every day consistently bad for Vietnam.

 

Thailand is in a distant second for the Asean countries it appears.  However, Thailand is still 24th overall in the stats for the world, been there for a long time.

24

Thailand

2,145,241

+4,000

20,964

+22

2,055,265

+6,450

69,012

1,369

30,625

299

14,913,135

212,893

70,049,814

 

At 24th as well for the 7 day average

24

Thailand

34,428

42,232

-18%

491

237

320

-26%

3

-7,804

-111

-83

-1

70,049,814

 

Even with cases supposedly dropping Thailand still can not shake of the cases like some of the other countries have. One has to wonder what's going on in Russia as well since those numbers have rocketed along with South Africas, but then we know that the Omicron variant is now entrenched in South Africa.  

 

9 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

On another front we received a message dated last Friday that school would not be reopening for in person earning for the rest of this term, which in itself is very frustrating.  Looks like a 3 day school week on-line as well due to todays holiday and Fridays constitution day.  The reason they gave was not just covid but the uncertainty and extra pressure being put on the school system by the government.  Without the extra funds to be put in place they can not put the extra required measures into place.

Things change quickly, yesterday I reported there was one new covid case at my daughters school, another 7 have just been announced. Just received an email and now, there are 4 new cases in one class of Year 2 (6 - 7yrs). This class will now close for 10 days.

 

There are another 2 cases in Year 7 (11 - 12yrs). These cases are in 2 separate classes. For this they are asking all students to provide a negative test before returning to school and also offering online learning to those parents who may decide to keep their children off as a precaution.

 

Siblings of new cases and high risk contacts are asked to isolate at home for 7 days and return showing a negative test.

 

There is also a new case of a senior teacher.

 

So school will remain open for everyone else, it caters from 3 yrs - 17 years and has about 800 students.

 

 

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The recoveries are always more then the actual new cases. From where are they all coming??

COVID-19: Thailand reports 3,525 new coronavirus cases, 31 deaths, 6,109 recoveries

 

File photo: REUTERS

 

Thailand on Tuesday (December 7) reported 3,525 new COVID-19 cases, 6,109 recoveries and 31 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242181-covid-19-thailand-reports 3525-new-coronavirus cases-31-deaths-6109 recoveries/

 

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