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Thailand on Saturday (April 9) reported 25,298 new COVID-19 cases, 22,003 recoveries and 98 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 3,858,346 with 25,975 deaths.

 

Advisor to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) Dr. Udom Kachinthorn, claimed yesterday (Friday) that actual daily infections at present may be around 100,000 and this may increase during and after the long Songkran holiday next week, as more people gather together.

 

Official numbers of daily infections, confirmed by RT-PCR tests, have been recorded at more than 20,000 for weeks, but another sizeable group has also tested positive using rapid antigen tests. Dr. Udom’s estimated figure of 100,000 a day takes into account those who have not been tested and is based on the increasing number of patients on ventilators and with lung inflammations, as well as COVID-related deaths.*

 

*Thai PBS contributed to this report

 

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Thailand on Saturday set new year-high records with 98 new COVID deaths and 1,936 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition, while new official COVID cases continued above the 25,000 mark with a small increase to 25,298.

 

The 98 new COVID deaths reported Saturday eclipsed the prior daily high of 97 set both last Sunday and Monday. The 1,936 tally of seriously ill COVID patients in hospital surpassed the prior record high for the year set just yesterday of 1,899.

 

In another measure of severe COVID illness, Thailand on Saturday also reported a new year-high number of 821 hospitalized COVID patients requiring intubation to breathe, up from the prior 815 year-high record set yesterday.

 

Both serious COVID hospitalizations and patients requiring intubation have been rising to new daily year-high records on an almost daily basis, with no sign thus far of any break in those upward trends.

 

The government also reported that the country’s total number of current COVID cases under care rose to 251,451, up from 248,254 just yesterday, but that tally remained below the year’s high figure of 259,126 also set last Sunday.

 

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.

 

Right now, current daily COVID deaths have reached about 31% of last year's high. The number of seriously ill patients in hospital has reached about 34% of last year's high, while the number of intubations has hit about 70% of last year's high.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/538250547793274

 

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

 

 

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 25,298 official new infections. 98 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 22,431 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 47,729

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

 

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

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

 

 

 

Traffic this morning from my part of Bangkok earlier around 6 am seemed pretty heavy for a Saturday morning.  Might be the ones who did not leave last night and wanted to get a head start before the traffic picked up as it normally does.  You also have to love the RTP's 10k Baht reward for videos showing reckless driving for a max of 70k baht to be earned over 7 days.  If they would spend half of that money and enforce the laws on the road then the 7 deadly days would be reduced.  On top of that it appears that this Regime and Prayut have decided it will be the masses faults for continuing the Covid restriction should the case count move upward to failing to listen and then the non re-opening of Thailand from the Covid restrictions will be on the hands of others.  You have to laugh at this government sometimes as being so readable and transparent when it comes to blaming others for the Covid mess when they themselves have set the ball in motion and have assured failures will continue, but then the "Not on my watch" crowd seems to have accepted defeat....

To the extent that its elderly and most vulnerable people are vaccinated, boosted, and most likely boosted again, then a country's vaccination program may be deemed a success or otherwise.  This is particularly true of Omicron which seems to be far less a serious danger to those who are fit and well than previous variants. (That is not to say that some old people are not also fit and well, or that all youngsters are fit and well).

 

I leave others to make their own judgement- I know mine!

 

 

Sunday's Covid-19 update:

 

BREAKING: Omicron deaths surpassed 100 psychological mark for the first time! 108 deaths & 25,139 new infections reported on Sunday. 25,509 discharged. 250,973 still being treated. #WhatsHappeningInThailand #Thailand #COVID19 #Omicron #โควิด #โควิด #โอมิครอน

 

https://twitter.com/PravitR/status/1512954225873264640

PCR test positive cases, total of 25,139 official new infections. 108 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 23,199 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 48,338

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 8th April

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

 

 

 

How to attract further Covid infections? Hold a Full Moon party on Koh Phangan.

 

The B.P are reporting that Koh Phangan are relaunching the F.M. party this month under certain conditions

 

More from the their website.

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1512965661680877568

 

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How to attract further Covid infections? Hold a Full Moon party on Koh Phangan.

 

The B.P are reporting that Koh Phangan are relaunching the F.M. party this month under certain conditions

 

More from the their website.

Can one say Exploding case counts!.  What will the CCSA and Prayut as well as Anutin say, well it will be this "We warned the people that unless they followed directives and had a muted Songkran they risked the cases going up and then of course it is their fault the country will not re-open without restrictions and controls in place".  Of course that is just my opinion.  Talked with a friend in Chiang Mai and he indicated the travelers have started to arrive and he wonders how busy it will get in town.  Of course Bangkok looks very empty this Sunday morning with many of the local vendors who would normally be open having closed with signs stating they will be closed until the 16th.

Phuket marks 201 new COVID caseses, one more death

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 201 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Apr 9), bringing the total number of infections recorded since Jan 1 to 48,755

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-201-new-covid-caseses-one-more-death-83759.php

Other countries had the good sense to give most people a fair chance of getting boosted before letting it spread like crazy. But it is what it is and won't be stopped. 

Other countries provided a template on how to deal with Omicron and Thailand for reasons best known to itself was unable to follow it, despite having the means and the time to do so.  Thainess!  There was always this belief that it could be controlled via 'good behaviour'. Further, a blindness to the economic effects, particularly on poor people, who were expected to bear the brunt.

Even while Thailand's official and dubious daily COVID case count remains static, the country on Sunday reported year-high records for new COVID deaths (108), serious condition COVID hospitalizations (1,993), and COVID patients requiring intubation (848).

 

The Sunday update from the Ministry of Public Health was the second consecutive day that new COVID deaths reached new record highs for the year, and the third consecutive day that both serious COVID hospitalizations and intubations reached new highs for the year.

 

At the same time, meanwhile, the government's official count of daily COVID cases (widely considered an unreliable undercount) declined slightly from the prior day to 25,139, bouncing around the 25,000 daily case mark as it has for most of the past week, despite the continuing increases in the more reliable counts of seriously ill COVID patients.

 

 

 

The graphic below shows Thailand's official daily COVID case counts for new domestic cases nationally on the first line, and Bangkok province on the second line for the past week -- both remaining in pretty much the same range throughout.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/539057537712575/?type=3

 

Below is the MoPH past two week trends chart for, from  left to right, 14-day average of official daily COVID case counts, serious COVID hospitalizations, COVID intubations, and daily COVID deaths.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/539057507712578/?type=3

 

According to the red text on the chart, 95 of Sunday's 108 newly reported COVID deaths (88%) had NOT received their third dose COVID vaccine booster shot.

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/04/10/chonburi-announces-1290-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-eight-new-deaths/

 

Excerpt from the above:

 

14 people were listed as being in serious condition in Chonburi currently, either on a ventilator or with pneumonia. Two of them were not vaccinated. According to the Chonburi Department of Public Health, the vast majority of recent cases, at 99.683 percent, are mild or asymptomatic.  The eight new deaths today were 5, 55, 70, 76, 81, 88, and 90 years old with severe personal health problems and pre-existing conditions. Seven of them were vaccinated.

 

 

Today's figures are perhaps notable in that there has been an uptick in serious cases, and sadly in deaths too, albeit from a very low base for a sizeable regional population. 

 

From these figures and previous reports from the same source, one constant feature is that deaths seem to be exclusively in those unfortunate people who already have severe health problems, so much so that age, although undoubtedly an important aspect, is not necessarily the biggest determiner.  

COVID-19: Thailand reports 105 deaths, 22,387 new coronavirus cases, 27,680 recoveries

 

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Thailand on Monday (April 11) reported 22,387 new COVID-19 cases, 27,680 recoveries and 105 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1256361-covid-19-thailand-reports-105-deaths-22387-new-coronavirus-cases-27680-recoveries/

 

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