COVID-19: Thailand reports 21,162 new coronavirus cases, 65 deaths, 23,159 recoveries

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Thailand on Monday (March 7) reported 21,162 new COVID-19 cases, 23,159 recoveries and 65 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Monday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 3,047,857 with 23,300 deaths.

 

The news comes as the Thai Ministry of Public Health has joined university researchers to assess Thailand’s response to the Covid-19 situation following World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, expecting to announce the disease as endemic in July.

 

Dr. Rungrueng Kitphati, advisor and spokesman from the Ministry of Public Health, revealed to the press yesterday, March 5th, that the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic in Thailand and around the world is likely to continue to decline. The Ministry then developed a management plan to announce the disease and treat it as endemic.

 

*The Pattaya News contributed to tis report

 

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[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1500626717479620608

 

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1500627445518462977

 

[Bkk Brian]

PCR test positive cases, total of 21,162 official new infections. 65 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 24,236 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 45,401

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 5th March

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

 

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

PCR test positive cases, total of 21,162 official new infections. 65 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 24,236 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 45,401

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 5th March

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

 

 

 

Do we want to believe we are now on the backside of this or do we believe what we are seeing is from weekend testing and the numbers associated with such?

 

I guess only time will tell.

[Bkk Brian]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Do we want to believe we are now on the backside of this or do we believe what we are seeing is from weekend testing and the numbers associated with such?

 

I guess only time will tell.

Difficult to call I agree, with so many going uncounted here we could have already reached the peak without knowing? However ICU and Ventilated cases are continuing to go up.

data source

[anchadian]

11 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Difficult to call I agree, with so many going uncounted here we could have already reached the peak without knowing? However ICU and Ventilated cases are continuing to go up.

data source

Along with deaths.  The highest since the beginning of this year.

[ThailandRyan]

40 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Difficult to call I agree, with so many going uncounted here we could have already reached the peak without knowing? However ICU and Ventilated cases are continuing to go up.

data source

We do have to remember that some of those needing assistance unfortunately progress as time goes on the same with the lag in deaths.  It is the unfortunate part of this and the unknown.  The way this has bounced around here in Thailand and a few other Asean countries versus the rest of the west and even SA has me baffled as to why it acts or is acting so much different here....

 

South Korea is still climbing upwards with 210k cases today and 139 deaths. Singapore on the other hand seems to be on the backside with a few bumps in the road.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Despite officially reported new COVID cases falling for a third consecutive day to 21,162, new COVID deaths, serious cases in hospital and COVID patients needing intubation to breathe all rose again Monday to set new record highs for the year.

 

With Monday's update by the Thai Ministry of Public Health, daily COVID deaths now at 65 are more than five times their number at the start of the year. Serious COVID cases in hospital, now at 1,148, have more than doubled their level since the start of the year, and the same with COVID patients (375) requiring intubation to breathe.

 

With Monday's update, the daily number of COVID deaths has risen for the past two days, and three days for the number of serious COVID cases in hospital. The number of COVID patients requiring intubation to breath has risen daily for the past week. And that's even with the rising numbers of daily COVID deaths.

 

Officially reported COVID cases often drop during the weekend periods (today's report reflects the totals from Sunday) and early part of the week, only then to climb even higher later in the week. So it remains to be seen whether the recent case declines are early signs that the Omicron wave has peaked, or, just reflect a short-term lull before going even higher, as the MoPH this past week warned could well occur during March.

 

Thailand's seven-day-average positivity rate for COVID testing, after peaking at more than 30% in recent days, has lately declined somewhat and has been hovering around 27%, which still is extremely high.

 

 

 

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

 

For added context, during the peak of the Delta wave last fall, Thailand's daily COVID case count topped out at 23,418, but the numbers of serious hospital cases and intubated patients peaked above 5,600 and 1,100 respectively, and daily deaths topped 300 for a brief period.

 

[mommysboy]

I'd imagine deaths with covid will peak at around 250.  The majority will be unvaccinated people, who really did need one because of age and underlying health condition.

 

To put this in context: in a bad flu season over a duration of 6 months say, deaths would likely be 40-90 based on 10-20k deaths annually (in UK at least).  This could be a sizeable under estimate as many death cerificates would historically not detail influenza as a cause, whereas all Omicron deaths would be recorded even when entirely incidental.

 

The Omicron surge is likely to be much shorter duration.  

 

It's absolutely negligent not to get vaccinated, and it's horrifying that as many as 2 million old people appear to be unvaccinated!

Edited March 7, 2022 by mommysboy

[Cake Monster]

8 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Do we want to believe we are now on the backside of this or do we believe what we are seeing is from weekend testing and the numbers associated with such?

 

I guess only time will tell.

The Chart above is showing a whole series of " whoopees " along its entire length

The highest reported PCR test date was 26 th Feb. That could have been viewed as the peak.

However today we are in a trough and tomorrow could see another rise

Still cant figure out how the infections in the Prisons are so low every Day - truly amazing.

[anchadian]

BA.2 sub variant of Omicron becoming dominant strain in Thailand

The BA.2 sub variant of the COVID-19 Omicron variant is spreading rapidly across Thailand and is replacing the BA.1 as the dominant sub variant. Medicine which is effective against the Delta variant and BA.1 is not as effective against the BA.2, according to Director-General of the Medical Sciences Department Dr. Supakit Sirilak.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/ba-2-sub-variant-of-omicron-becoming-dominant-strain-in-thailand/

[mommysboy]

1 hour ago, anchadian said:

BA.2 sub variant of Omicron becoming dominant strain in Thailand

The BA.2 sub variant of the COVID-19 Omicron variant is spreading rapidly across Thailand and is replacing the BA.1 as the dominant sub variant. Medicine which is effective against the Delta variant and BA.1 is not as effective against the BA.2, according to Director-General of the Medical Sciences Department Dr. Supakit Sirilak.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/ba-2-sub-variant-of-omicron-becoming-dominant-strain-in-thailand/

it's only a  slight difference in resistance and may not translate at all in to a reduction in effectiveness.  No concerns about AZ Evushield for instance.

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Thailand reports 18,943 new COVID-19 cases, 69 deaths, 25,005 recoveries

 

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Thailand on Tuesday (March 8th) reported 18,943 new COVID-19 cases, 25,005 recoveries and 69 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1252684-thailand-reports-18943-new-covid-19-cases-69-deaths-25005-recoveries/

 

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