Thailand's COVID-19 cases surge to 5,775 new cases, 11 more deaths

[anchadian]

UPDATE: 5,775 confirmed cases, 1,079 probable cases (ATK), and 11 deaths (0.97%). Out of 37,968 patients , 20,498 are in hospital, 15,843 in hospitel and 831 in home/community isolation. There are 536 in a serious condition (-5) with 146 on ventilators (-3) #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1478906750761766915

[internationalism]

Almost 100% jump from yesterday. 
so now its really here in full swing. 
some countries were reporting that high jumps every day, but only at the pick of infections. 
later it was only some 30% daily jumps. 
way to go for thailand from now on. 
Now they will knee jerk and close borders, affecting foreigners, that instead of shutting new year celebrations (didnt want to upset thai that much)
 

[smedly]

49 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

There are 1,847 people in America who would disagree with you, but they died of Covid yesterday.

not as straight forward as you think,  many people under intense treatment in hospitals are from much older infections i.e. delta, many are unvaccinated, many have other serious illness 

 

There is still no clear evidence either way that omicron is milder or just as deadly as delta, if there is evidence then it has not been made officially public - this of course is critical as to how this unfolds, I expect we will know soon enough 

[smedly]

43 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yes must be the Kit. This is the Roche ATK test kit instructions. This one says Nasal on the test. Maybe yours says Nasal and Throat. Have not seen one of those.  I also have the Saliva antigen kits as well.

The FDA recommended doing both no matter what the instructions said - I posted the article here last week but that does not solve the issue of "can the ATK used effectively detect omicron no matter what the sample is"

 

I would also like to know if the detections listed for Pattaya are ATK or PCR or both, that is unclear right now 

[worrab]

First update since 30th Dec 2021 where there were 26 cases, Goodness knows what has happened in between!

 

Health officials on Wednesday (Jan 5) reported 39 new COVID-19 cases, 17 of which were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 2 cases were found in Pranburi, 6 cases in Sam Roi Yot, 2 cases in Kuiburi, 7 cases in Thap Sakae, 3 cases in Bang Saphan, zero case in Bang Saphan Noi, and 2 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan. No new deaths were reported today.

 

https://www.huahintoday.com/hua-hin-news/jan-5-prachuap-reports-39-new-covid-19-cases-17-cases-in-hua-hin/

[anchadian]

Thailand government organization

The Ministry of Public Health has stated that the Food and Drug Administration has already registered the #COVID19Vaccine for children aged 5-11 years and is in the process of observing the willingness of both children and their parents.

 

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1478924287817904130

 

[anchadian]

Public Health Ministry has decided to raise the nation's Covid-19 alert to Level 4 after seeing new Covid-19 cases soar to 5,775 on Thursday.

@TNAMCOT

 

https://twitter.com/TNAMCOTEnglish/status/1478917650419834881

 

Thailand has just increased the coronavirus alert level to four. The guideline for this level is to detain incoming travellers in quarantine on arrival. This hasn’t been put into place yet, but CCSA will be having a meeting tomorrow to discuss changes to entry requirements.

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1478925990675976192

 

[ThailandRyan]

24 minutes ago, smedly said:

The FDA recommended doing both no matter what the instructions said - I posted the article here last week but that does not solve the issue of "can the ATK used effectively detect omicron no matter what the sample is"

 

I would also like to know if the detections listed for Pattaya are ATK or PCR or both, that is unclear right now 

I do agree with what your saying, but still it would he nice to have a truly validated set of updated instruction so the tests are done correctly.

[Daithi85]

Just now, anchadian said:

Public Health Ministry has decided to raise the nation's Covid-19 alert to Level 4 after seeing new Covid-19 cases soar to 5,775 on Thursday.

@TNAMCOT

 

https://twitter.com/TNAMCOTEnglish/status/1478917650419834881

 

How many levels are there and what do they actually mean? What's the difference between level 3 and level 4?does anything change? 

[anchadian]

Thai News Reports: The Ministry of Public Health will have a press conference at 11:00am to update the situation. You can watch it on the Ministry of Public Health's Facebook page http://facebook.com/fanmoph #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1478929195451310083

 

[Bkk Brian]

Thailand has enough hospital beds in case of Omicron surge

 

“Bangkok has up to 11,000 beds available for patients with severe symptoms, 6,000 beds for level 2 patients, and 5,000 beds for level 3 patients.”

 

“From the statistics of Omicron cases in Thailand, 48 per cent are asymptomatic, while 41 per cent have mild symptoms,” Somsak pointed out. “These patients can be treated at isolation centres and will not require hospital beds,” he said.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40010786

[cyril sneer]

vaccine was a complete waste of time

[tomyami]

My overly cautious country Ireland is exp the highest level of cases in the world.

Deaths and hospilizations have reduced under omicrom most in ICU are legacy delta unvaxed cases.

A senior politician had to addmitt this in the case so schools are opening today as planned workers who are close contacts and are fully vaxed + boosted with no syptoms can return to work and no more restrictions to be added

I think Thailand is 2 wks from seeing the birds from the treees with cases and pcr testing becoming less relevant link is broken with omicrom so no reason to continue this charade.

 

[Cherrytreeview]

13 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

vaccine was a complete waste of time

Don't think so.

 

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

24 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Thailand has enough hospital beds in case of Omicron surge

 

“Bangkok has up to 11,000 beds available for patients with severe symptoms, 6,000 beds for level 2 patients, and 5,000 beds for level 3 patients.”

 

“From the statistics of Omicron cases in Thailand, 48 per cent are asymptomatic, while 41 per cent have mild symptoms,” Somsak pointed out. “These patients can be treated at isolation centres and will not require hospital beds,” he said.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40010786

So in reality isolating at home in a safe environment would be preferable.  Just like my son in the US is doing.  They only have him quarantining for5 days, then wearing a mask for 3 more days afterwards.  

[ThailandRyan]

18 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

vaccine was a complete waste of time

Why would you say that. Do you believe the unvaccinated fare better than the vaccinated.  Do you believe that the vaccinated are the only ones who get the virus, or are you just saying that your an antivaxxer and vaccines do not reduce the chances of getting gravely ill and possibly dying like being unvaxxed does.

[NicholasTH]

2 hours ago, internationalism said:

Almost 100% jump from yesterday. 
so now its really here in full swing. 
some countries were reporting that high jumps every day, but only at the pick of infections. 
later it was only some 30% daily jumps. 
way to go for thailand from now on. 
Now they will knee jerk and close borders, affecting foreigners, that instead of shutting new year celebrations (didnt want to upset thai that much)
 

It’s going to keep on jumping omg 

[Sheryl]

This was inevitable and the numbers will continue to climb.

 

How much hospitalizations increase will depend on whether MoPH pursues rational policies and limits hospitalization to serious cases.

 

And also on progress with booster doses especially for high risk groups.

 

 

[NicholasTH]

6 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

This was inevitable and the numbers will continue to climb.

 

How much hospitalizations increase will depend on whether MoPH pursues rational policies and limits hospitalization to serious cases.

 

And also on progress with booster doses especially for high risk groups.

 

 

Imagine how many are going to have to pay like this and this is actually a positive case.? 

[Danderman123]

3 hours ago, Capella said:

Incidental cases, most of those. Omicron is mild. I've had it and I'm in a risk group. 

Link, please.

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

Public Health Ministry has decided to raise the nation's Covid-19 alert to Level 4 after seeing new Covid-19 cases soar to 5,775 on Thursday.

@TNAMCOT

 

https://twitter.com/TNAMCOTEnglish/status/1478917650419834881

 

Thailand has just increased the coronavirus alert level to four. The guideline for this level is to detain incoming travellers in quarantine on arrival. This hasn’t been put into place yet, but CCSA will be having a meeting tomorrow to discuss changes to entry requirements.

 

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1478925990675976192

 

Thailand raises Covid alert level to second highest level due to Omicron and new year clusters

 

“There will be no lockdown but some activities could be restricted in at-risk venues with crowded conditions and lack of proper airflow for public safety,” said Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, the director-general of the Department of Disease Control.

 

“This is an announcement to raise the alert level and we will have to discuss with the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) first before new measures can come into effect,” he said.

 

https://www.thaienquirer.com/36238/thailand-raises-covid-alert-level-to-second-highest-level-due-to-omicron-and-new-year-clusters/

[Sheryl]

12 minutes ago, NicholasTH said:

Imagine how many are going to have to pay like this and this is actually a positive case.? 

COVID treatment is free for Thai citizens

[NicholasTH]

3 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

COVID treatment is free for Thai citizens

Normally when I’m in Thailand I don’t have insurance but after this mess I’m definitely buying it just for in case something bad does happen.. 

 

I know I’m young and stupid but I don’t go out looking for trouble.

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, NicholasTH said:

Normally when I’m in Thailand I don’t have insurance but after this mess I’m definitely buying it just for in case something bad does happen.. 

 

I know I’m young and stupid but I don’t go out looking for trouble.

Kind of mandatory if you want to enter now, however it seems that some of those with policies got what they paid for...absolutely nothing, as they did not read the fine print for the policy.

[RichardColeman]

3 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

There are 1,847 people in America who would disagree with you, but they died of Covid yesterday.

As Americans are one of the fattest nations on the planet and have a low vaccine take up, that is hardly a surprise is it. When 1 in 5 die from related obesity a simple lung related virus is bound to effect people who think stuffing their face is more important that a healthy ish body. Everything in moderation.

[Bkk Brian]

Guideline for Alert Level 4:

Refrain from eating & drinking in restaurants

Refrain from entering risky places

Avoid meeting people outside of your home

Avoid groups

Refrain from taking public transport

Refrain from going abroad

Quarantine on entry to Thailand

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1478945825988354048

 

[ThailandRyan]

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Guideline for Alert Level 4:

Refrain from eating & drinking in restaurants

Refrain from entering risky places

Avoid meeting people outside of your home

Avoid groups

Refrain from taking public transport

Refrain from going abroad

Quarantine on entry to Thailand

https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow/status/1478945825988354048

 

Level 4 reads like a self imposed isolationist provision. 1 step away from shutting the entire country down again for all incoming and outgoing.  If they do, then they have doomed the country into self destruction amid internal strife.  Maybe that's the goal of this group in order to remain in power forever.

[DavisH]

3 hours ago, internationalism said:

Almost 100% jump from yesterday. 
so now its really here in full swing. 
some countries were reporting that high jumps every day, but only at the pick of infections. 
later it was only some 30% daily jumps. 
way to go for thailand from now on. 
Now they will knee jerk and close borders, affecting foreigners, that instead of shutting new year celebrations (didnt want to upset thai that much)
 

Schools are shut again. Most Thais I know aren't that happy about it. 

[DavisH]

44 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

COVID treatment is free for Thai citizens

Do you know the roughcosts for foreigner's that are hospitalised under various scenarios: 1) no symptoms, 2) mild symptoms, 3) serious condition, ICU etc. I would say most (private school) teachers here have no insurance at all, or certaianly not enough to cover medical costs. 

[CharlieH]

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