Thailand reports 3,011 new COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths, 3,315 recoveries

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Thailand on Saturday (January 1) reported 3,011 new COVID-19 cases, 3,315 recoveries and 10 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Infections outside prisons: 2,954. Prisons: 57

▶︎ Recoveries: 3,315

▶︎ Total infections since April 1: 2,197,583

▶︎ Total recoveries since April 1: 2,144,383

 

Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 2,226,446 with 21,708 deaths.

 

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The news comes as the National Security Council Secretary-General, who also heads the Center for Covid-19 Situation Center’s “Small Panel” that runs daily operations and advises all restrictions and Covid-19 response measures, said earlier today that there will be NO national lockdown no matter how the Covid -19 situation will be after New Year.

 

 

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[Bkk Brian]

IMO a very sad reflection on the testing situation here in Thailand and not showing anywhere near the true amount of infections that are spreading.  

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 3,011 official new infections. 10 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests dashboard has still not been updated

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 30th Dec)

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

[ThailandRyan]

So with Omicron cases on the rise and holiday travels abounding around the country, the numbers seem to have dropped.  Only 1 way this could happen is for the testing to have stopped except for intake at hospitals.  I do like that the daily deaths yesterday were only 10, which shows that being vaccinated for the Delta variant and the other strains has definitely helped knock that category downwards.

 

As we enter 2022 today, I wish everyone a safe, happy and healthy New year and pray that Omicron itself does rise and fall quickly placing Covid in the rear mirror.

[ThailandRyan]

8 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

IMO a very sad reflection on the testing situation here in Thailand and not showing anywhere near the true amount of infections that are spreading.  

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 3,011 official new infections. 10 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests dashboard has still not been updated

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 30th Dec)

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

I pray that next weeks mid week numbers, after folks return to the city and such from the outer provinces, as well as those who went to resort areas, does not see a rocket ship upwards blasting trajectory.

Edited January 1, 2022 by ThailandRyan

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1477082652507197440

 

[anchadian]

According to the BP,  a total of 1,145 Omicron cases (01 Nov to 30 Dec) have been recorded.

620 from arrivals from overseas and 525 local cases.

[Bkk Brian]

17 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Small Panel” that runs daily operations and advises all restrictions and Covid-19 response measures, said earlier today that there will be NO national lockdown no matter how the Covid -19 situation will be after New Year.

Here's my take on the current situation.

 

We all know from the warnings through other countries that are infested and test properly that the sheer number of infections in such a short space of time will lead to massive disruption and burden on Health Services and just about every other sector of the economy, deaths and severe illness will occur although in far less numbers than previous waves.

 

The positives we are seeing with a less virulent virus, shorter stays in hospitals and boosters working to lessen hospitalization can be drowned out by the sheer numbers but they should not be ignored.

 

What Does Thailand need to do?

 

1. Test and find the true level of spread. Communicate that to the population rather than hide figures causing mistrust and speculation.

2. Stop hospitalizing everyone with covid/omicron and only admit those who really need care due to moderate/severe illness. 

3. Use the only tools given to you by other countries experiences, plan for the disruption. Hospitals stays will be shorter, there will be less ICU and deaths but sheer numbers may outweigh much of that especially if the policy of quarantining everyone continues. 

4. There is no need now to quarantine those suffering only mild symptoms or no symptoms at all

5. Concentrate heavily on boosters, they work but around half of Thailand was jabbed with Chinese vaccines, studies show they are not performing well and 2 doses provides zero infection effectiveness. Even western vaccines need boosters.

6. Stop ridiculous statements from Anutin saying Thailand's doctors can handle this!

 

Rant over..........back to the reality of Thailand's current approach.

[Bkk Brian]

13 minutes ago, anchadian said:

According to the BP,  a total of 1,145 Omicron cases (01 Nov to 30 Dec) have been recorded.

620 from arrivals from overseas and 525 local cases.

Amazing, only country in the world that is not showing a growth rate of doubling every second day.

[Cherrytreeview]

35 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

IMO a very sad reflection on the testing situation here in Thailand and not showing anywhere near the true amount of infections that are spreading.  

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 3,011 official new infections. 10 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests dashboard has still not been updated

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 30th Dec)

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

A disgrace.

Anyone with Pattaya connections knows omicron is rife.

9 cases one bar Pattaya. FACT.

Total cases country PCR 3000.

Just lies and misinformation from Thailand.

[edwinchester]

The published PCR test positivity rate is 5%. Three thousand testing positive suggests about 60,000 tests carried out per day.

Truly remarkable and astonishingly low in a country of 70 million people.

My own daughter had PCR test on Thursday, fortunately negative. I mentioned to the nurses and doctor that I don't believe the published figures for covid infections. The reply was that the official figure is no way near reality. We were even told that there is a large covid cluster in our area and guess what....nothing in the local news releases and figures.

[Bkk Brian]

2 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

The published PCR test positivity rate is 5%. Three thousand testing positive suggests about 60,000 tests carried out per day.

Truly remarkable and astonishingly low in a country of 70 million people.

My own daughter had PCR test on Thursday, fortunately negative. I mentioned to the nurses and doctor that I don't believe the published figures for covid infections. The reply was that the official figure is no way near reality. We were even told that there is a large covid cluster in our area and guess what....nothing in the local news releases and figures.

Personally I don't believe a word of that positivity rate. The PCR testing rates are currently only around 36,000 daily.

https://djay.github.io/covidthailand/#testing

[candide]

53 minutes ago, anchadian said:

According to the BP,  a total of 1,145 Omicron cases (01 Nov to 30 Dec) have been recorded.

620 from arrivals from overseas and 525 local cases.

And the only reliable number is the arrivals, as they are all PCR tested. 

[Cherrytreeview]

14 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Personally I don't believe a word of that positivity rate. The PCR testing rates are currently only around 36,000 daily.

https://djay.github.io/covidthailand/#testing

UK about 1,500,000 PCR and the UK government have just ordered 300 million lateral flow tests.

Lateral flow tests are available free from pharmacies or for home delivery.

[Petey11]

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

IMO a very sad reflection on the testing situation here in Thailand and not showing anywhere near the true amount of infections that are spreading.  

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 3,011 official new infections. 10 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests dashboard has still not been updated

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart (up to 30th Dec)

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

One thing from your bar chart it does show a bump up these past few days. Also looking back on the past dashboard figures it seems that nearly all reported cases are from walk-ins so obvious that very little proactive testing is going on. Also in my opinion even if the ATK were known I think they would just be the tip of the iceberg so to speak. I personally know of 6 ATK self tests that have gone under the radar.

Edited January 1, 2022 by Petey11

[Danderman123]

2 hours ago, Cherrytreeview said:

A disgrace.

Anyone with Pattaya connections knows omicron is rife.

9 cases one bar Pattaya. FACT.

Total cases country PCR 3000.

Just lies and misinformation from Thailand.

I personally know about 15 ladies with Covid in Pattaya over the last 10 days, including from 4 different bars. No way to know if they have Omicron or Delta.

[anchadian]

165,805 vaccine doses administered yesterday

 

[jacko45k]

3 hours ago, Cherrytreeview said:

Lateral flow tests are available free from pharmacies or for home delivery.

Yes, a lot of UK guys arriving here with a stock of them!

[Petey11]

Order issued in Chonburi for ATK testing in "restaurants".

Wonder how they are going to enforce that?

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/01/01/chonburi-governor-issues-new-order-for-restaurants-selling-alcohol/

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, Petey11 said:

Order issued in Chonburi for ATK testing in "restaurants".

Wonder how they are going to enforce that?

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/01/01/chonburi-governor-issues-new-order-for-restaurants-selling-alcohol/

Testing of staff, but no testing of patrons.  If just one patron is an asymptomatic carrier then all bets are off and its off to the races no matter what....

[Petey11]

6 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

I personally know about 15 ladies with Covid in Pattaya over the last 10 days, including from 4 different bars. No way to know if they have Omicron or Delta.

And are they all reporting the cases to the authorities?

[Danderman123]

13 minutes ago, Petey11 said:

And are they all reporting the cases to the authorities?

I don’t know. I am lucky they reported to me.

 

Actually, a couple of them asked to come see me while they were in quarantine. Of course, they didn’t mention that they were in quarantine, only a sudden desire to visit my condo.

Edited January 1, 2022 by Danderman123

[Petey11]

21 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I don’t know. I am lucky they reported to me.

 

Actually, a couple of them asked to come see me while they were in quarantine. Of course, they didn’t mention that they were in quarantine, only a sudden desire to visit my condo.

There in lies the problem. In quarantine but still want to go out, sharing rooms/condos with other ladies and thinking that if they wear masks the others won't catch covid, thinking it's ok just to pop down 7/11. You can see why Thai authorities like the state quarantine. Even heard of bosses asking girls to carry on working but keep mask in all time, due to lack of employees. Absolute madness.

[Meat Pie 47]

9 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

Amazing, only country in the world that is not showing a growth rate of doubling every second day.

Yes amazing alright, look at NSW and Vic 30.000 combined plus thousands in Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania the only state with a handfull is WA

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, anchadian said:

165,805 vaccine doses administered yesterday

 

at a rate of just 165,000 a day, it will take the entire rest of the year or more to vaccinate everybody 3 times. Far too late to have any effect on any omicron infection in the community - and the next variant

[Valentine]

21 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

at a rate of just 165,000 a day, it will take the entire rest of the year or more to vaccinate everybody 3 times. Far too late to have any effect on any omicron infection in the community - and the next variant

Hopefully the rate will pick up after the holiday

[Trip Hop]

51 minutes ago, Petey11 said:

There in lies the problem. In quarantine but still want to go out, sharing rooms/condos with other ladies and thinking that if they wear masks the others won't catch covid, thinking it's ok just to pop down 7/11. You can see why Thai authorities like the state quarantine. Even heard of bosses asking girls to carry on working but keep mask in all time, due to lack of employees. Absolute madness.

Found it a little alarming last night that upon checking in to our usual hotel off Soi Buakhao, that even the receptionist told us to be careful with Covid in that area?

 

As stated by previous posters, the word on the street paints a totally different picture to what the authorities seem to be letting on at the moment?

[tomyami]

experience out there testing can not keep pace with omicron, infection less severe, hospitization shorter, ICU and deaths lower, quarantine and closures are pointless it spread cant not be stopped.

Thailand can open with or without AQL few will travel less for the later.

EU UK to peak in a week or 2 expect rapid return to normality

[NanaSomchai]

42 minutes ago, Trip Hop said:

Found it a little alarming last night that upon checking in to our usual hotel off Soi Buakhao, that even the receptionist told us to be careful with Covid in that area?

 

As stated by previous posters, the word on the street paints a totally different picture to what the authorities seem to be letting on at the moment?

Call me cynical but with the Omicron variant being considered as "weaker" than the Delta one, what are the odds the authorities along with "the one that shall not be named on these forums" would actually be quite happy to see a fraction of their/his own population to either get infected, develop symptoms, develop natural immunity over time or yet even worse; Get infected, take out other bargirls, hookers, prostitutes, pimps and patrons along with them and die quietly away?

 

Wouldn't it serve THEIR agenda afterall? Which is clear as crystal water; get rid of Pattaya's seedy image one way or another.

 

I know it sounds awful to even imagine but last time I checked those in charge and those in power have very little esteem for other Thais who are far far far below (dare I say, at the very bottom?) than they are on the Thai social ladder.

 

Let's not forget that the rise of the Thai baht along with their economic growth from the late 70's up to the 2000's was built on the back of their prostitutes (literally and metaphorically) but with the current puritan administration in charge and the current rhetoric against foreigners coupled with the highly hypocritical "crackdown" against prostitution in the Kingdom, everything indicates the ones in charge are trying their very best to dismiss that image.

 

TL;DR: "If you can't change your own people's behavior... might as well get rid of those people" one sickening mastermind could be inclined to think.

 

Just my two cents.

Edited January 1, 2022 by NanaSomchai

[Trip Hop]

7 minutes ago, NanaSomchai said:

Call me cynical but with the Omicron variant being considered as "weaker" than the Delta one, what are the odds the authorities along with "the one that shall not be named on these forums" would actually be quite happy to see a fraction of their/his own population to either get infected, develop symptoms, develop natural immunity over time or yet even worse; Get infected, take out other bargirls, hookers, prostitutes, pimps and patrons along with them and die quietly away?

 

Wouldn't it serve THEIR agenda afterall? Which is clear as crystal water; get rid of Pattaya's seedy image one way or another.

 

I know it sounds awful to even imagine but last time I checked those in charge and those in power have very little esteem for other Thais who are far far far below (dare I say, at the very bottom?) than they are on the Thai social ladder.

 

Just my two cents.

 

I wouldn’t quite go as far as to say certain people might be happy for this to happen but it is well known that some have little regard for those they regard as below them?

 

Their problem is though that through their rose tinted specs, they don’t understand that if they take away certain existing elements of Thailand, it simply won’t be ‘Thailand’ any more and a lot of tourists simply won’t come due to there being far better places in the world to visit?

 

However, they may not be that worried about whether they have tourists or not, so this may not be relevant?

 

 

[NanaSomchai]

43 minutes ago, Trip Hop said:

However, they may not be that worried about whether they have tourists or not, so this may not be relevant?

True, true.

 

During the COVID-19 the rich got even richer while the poorest became even poorer. This pattern is not just in Thailand, it's happening everywhere.