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Thailand on Tuesday (February 22) reported 18,363 new COVID-19 cases, 15,651 recoveries and 35 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

▶︎ Infections outside prisons: 18,236. Prisons: 127

▶︎ Recoveries: 15,651

 

Tuesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 2,749,561 with 22,691 deaths.

 

The news comes as the Thai Ministry of Public Health has once again upgraded the risk of COVID-19 infection to Level 4, the second highest level, across the country, as 90% of new infections are now by the Omicron variant.

 

The ministry previously raised the alert to Level 4 on January 6, before dropping it to Level 3 on January 20.

 

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PCR test positive cases, total of 18,363 official new infections. 35 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 14,605 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 32,968

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

 

Rolling 7 day average chart from 20th Feb

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

 

ICU and ventilators continue to rise:

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1495929114884448256

 

How is it that the prisons are faring so much better than the public at this point in time, and are the cases they are showing Delta, Omicron, or Omicrons little brother?  I would think that if it was Omicron it would have exploded, but then they have been known to withhold cases and information.  I truly wonder how many more workers camps have been bubble and sealed.

 

The issue at hand I see is that with raising the level back to 4 brings some restrictions or recommendations to not do certain things.  With that in mind one has to wonder what this may do to international travel as domestic travel is being discouraged.  

COVID deaths, serious cases and patients requiring intubation all up again today.

 

Oddly, according to their stats for the past day, a big reduction in the number of COVID patients in regular hospitals, but an even bigger increase in COVID cases in alternate facilities such as field hospitals and community isolation centers. All while the official new case count for the past 24 hours stayed flat. Not sure how to interpret those changes.

 

Add in the new 14,605 positive ATK tests to the official new case count and you get a combined daily total of 32,968 cases.

 

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

Seems like they've definitely reached their self-imposed testing ceiling.

 

Based in my own recency bias, it feels like a lot more people are positive, a lot more people have symptoms, a lot more are staying home, and staff in retail/resto are affected. Hopefully not a lot more perish or suffer.

 

 

 

 

Its going like wildfire through Phuket, schools being seriously affected. In my daughters class 3 active cases already and multiple cases throughout the school she goes to. I need to test her when I pick her up later as she's just sent me a message that one of her close friends in another class has also just tested positive and gone straight home into isolation, she has a lot of interaction with her.

 

Just as a note, none of these cases are followed up with a PCR, its all home isolation and they would not have a PCR unless they enter hospital treatment.

Isn't it amazing when looking at the bar chart you can see the average cases jump.... weekly!!??

 

Buriram has closed all entertainment venues and restaurants with live music, a day after closing most in-person schools. Order was written the 19th but effective yesterday. This basically means "restaurants" have to close here, due to rising Covid19 cases. 

 

https://twitter.com/The_PattayaNews/status/1496043414642700291?t=iEcIYvQP6uYWYJMzE-LRKw&s=19

 

Looking at this from outside it seems like I am taken back to early 2021. Covid panic seems to still reign in Thailand while in the rest of the world it is pretty much yesterday's news and things are getting back to normal. When people a year ago and in 2020 were praising what a wonderful place Thailand was in terms of covid safety I said this would be a long project and it seems I was right. I was sure they would mess it up at some point and now it looks like Thailand is pretty far behind living in its own reality.

7 minutes ago, rabang said:

Looking at this from outside it seems like I am taken back to early 2021. Covid panic seems to still reign in Thailand while in the rest of the world it is pretty much yesterday's news and things are getting back to normal. When people a year ago and in 2020 were praising what a wonderful place Thailand was in terms of covid safety I said this would be a long project and it seems I was right. I was sure they would mess it up at some point and now it looks like Thailand is pretty far behind living in its own reality.

Hong Kong, South Korea as well as Japan are in the same boat.  Hong Kong's newest restrictions mirror the lockdown that Thailand imposed last year with no groups of more than 2 and a fine of 5k HGD for not wearing a mask.

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Hong Kong, South Korea as well as Japan are in the same boat.  Hong Kong's newest restrictions mirror the lockdown that Thailand imposed last year with no groups of more than 2 and a fine of 5k HGD for not wearing a mask.

Yeah, they follow China's example over there with their zero-covid policy... Good luck with that, it seems the waves are crashing pretty hard already. But it is not a surprise that Asian countries will be the last to open up. I don't expect travel there to be convenient until next year at minimum.

 

As a matter of fact I was listening to a podcast with a journalis based in Hong Kong and he said international companies are having recruitment problems and expats are leaving the city in droves. Some multinational companies are considering relocation.

38 minutes ago, rabang said:

Yeah, they follow China's example over there with their zero-covid policy... Good luck with that, it seems the waves are crashing pretty hard already. But it is not a surprise that Asian countries will be the last to open up. I don't expect travel there to be convenient until next year at minimum.

 

As a matter of fact I was listening to a podcast with a journalis based in Hong Kong and he said international companies are having recruitment problems and expats are leaving the city in droves. Some multinational companies are considering relocation.

I have heard the same from a former work partner who is based in Hong Kong, he will be returning to the US next week and will try and work remotely based upon the inability to move around in HK and yet California is wide open with no mask wearing if your vaccinated.

Thailand reports 21,232 new COVID-19 cases, 39 deaths, 16,662 recoveries

 

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Thailand on Wednesday (February 23) reported 21,232 new COVID-19 cases, 16,662 recoveries and 39 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

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