COVID-19: Thailand reports 106 deaths, 23,015 new coronavirus cases, 27,626 recoveries

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Thailand on Wednesday (April 13) reported 23,015 new COVID-19 cases, 27,626 recoveries and 106 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Wednesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 3,948,869 with 26,395 deaths.

 

The news comes as the Rural Doctor Society (RDS) has endorsed a proposal by a senior doctor at Ramathibodi Hospital urging the government to allocate about 1 billion baht towards subsidizing elderly visits to COVID vaccination centers.

 

The notion was proposed by Dr Vijj Kasemsup, a doctor with the Department of Community Medicine at Ramathibodi Hospital’s Faculty of Medicine.

 

Dr Vijj suggested that the government cover the cost of transporting senior citizens to vaccination centers, noting that the cost of covering half of all unvaccinated seniors would be much lower than for ICU treatments.**

 

**NNT contributed to this report

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

On the first day of the Songkran New Year holiday, Thailand on Wednesday reported 106 new COVID deaths, the fourth consecutive day over 100 and the second highest daily deaths tally of the year, along with a slightly lower 1,971 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition.

 

Wednesday’s new deaths toll followed 101 yesterday, 105 on Monday and 108 on Sunday, which remains the highest COVID deaths day of 2022. The 1,971 COVID cases hospitalized in serious condition marked a decline from the 2,056 reported yesterday and the year high 2,065 reported Monday.

 

Among the COVID cases hospitalized in serious condition, the Ministry of Public Health said the share in the worst condition requiring intubation to breathe fell to 834 from the record year-high 885 reported yesterday, although that decline was driven in part by the high number of new deaths.

 

The 23,015 official new COVID cases reported Wednesday marked a typical midweek increase from the 19,982 reported yesterday, but continued a trend of Thailand’s dubious and widely underreported official COVID case counts bouncing above and below the 25,000 per day mark. Some officials have estimated the actual number of new cases could be in the 100,000 per day range.

 

Overall, Thailand on Wednesday reported a total of 232,682 active official COVID cases, down from the 237,399 reported yesterday, and well off the year-high of 259,126 reported on April 3. Thailand only counts COVID cases as official when the result is confirmed by an RT-PCR test, which the country has moved away from using in favor of unofficial ATK test results.

 

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 the intubated share of those peaked above 5,600 and 1,100 respectively, and daily deaths topped 300 for a brief period.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/540854390866223

 

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

 

[Bkk Brian]

PCR test positive cases, total of 23,015 official new infections. 106 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 15,059 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 38,074

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 11th April

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

 

 

 

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

Looking at @Bkk Brian's graph for the last few weeks of the up down, up down, in cases just makes no sense to me when you look at cases elsewhere and makes me a little skeptical as to the motivations of this Government to show the clear and transparent data.  One wonders if this type of a graph:

 

 

is used for them to justify the now not needed emergency decree in order to retain their control over the country.  They must view this as proof that when people do not listen to them the case numbers increase, but when they do the numbers decline.  Hell of a way to run a country when your scared of an uprising and mass protests.

[worrab]

We already have the report for today showing yet another drop from 301 cases yesterday.

 

 

Health officials on Wednesday (April 13) reported 247 new COVID-19 cases in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, of which 64 cases were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 40 cases were found in Pranburi, 38 cases in Sam Roi Yot, 8 cases in Kuiburi, 7 cases in Thap Sakae, 32 cases in Bang Saphan, 4 cases in Bang Saphan Noi, and 54 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan.

Four new COVID-19 related deaths were reported in the province today.

 

https://www.huahintoday.com/hua-hin-news/april-13-prachuap-reports-247-new-covid-19-cases-64-in-hua-hin/

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/OICDDC/posts/347739860720840

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Some Asia region COVID updates:

 

Taiwan

"Taiwan's daily cases continue to rise steadily, with 630 new cases reported today [April 11], reaching their highest level of the pandemic. Officials said they have signed an agreement with Pfizer to buy 700,000 courses of Paxlovid, the company's oral COVID-19 treatment."

 

China

"As Shanghai's lockdown enters its third week and amid public outcry about lapses in food supply and services, including medical treatment, officials today announced a plan to ease measures in some of the city's districts where no cases have been reported in the past 2 weeks.

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Elsewhere in China, officials in Guangzhou—a large port city and the capital of Guangdong province—are bracing for a surge, according to the Associated Press. Tightened measures include switching schools to online learning and urging people not to leave the city, which has a population of more than 15 million."

 

(more)

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/04/shanghai-tweaks-lockdown-covid-19-surge-presses

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

It's the older and unvaccinated folks who are mostly dying from COVID in Hong Kong...

 

Study sheds light on death spike in Hong Kong COVID-19 surge

 

"The recent Omicron variant surge in Hong Kong came with a mortality rate among the world's highest yet in the pandemic, a troubling development in a region known for its strong pandemic measures, and today researchers from the United States, Hong Kong, and China who dug into the data suggest that vaccination lapses in older people played a major role.

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Among the deaths, 96% occurred in people ages 60 and older, and of those 70% were unvaccinated. "The high overall mortality rate during the ongoing 2022 Hong Kong Omicron COVID-19 outbreak is being driven by deaths among unvaccinated persons aged ≥60 years," the team wrote."

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/04/study-sheds-light-death-spike-hong-kong-covid-19-surge

 

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7115e1.htm

 

Sounds suspiciously familiar to the elderly / unvaccinated COVID deaths situation in Thailand...albeit with lesser numbers here.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

And, someone posted here the other day using Africa as a supposed winning COVID example, claiming Africa had managed to avoid high numbers of COVID cases without a lot of lockdown and other restrictions...

 

Now researchers are saying, not so fast with that kind of conclusion, with new estimates that actual COVID cases in Africa may be as much as 98 times higher than the officially reported figures....  Again, sounding a bit similar to Thailand:

 

"Stark gaps in testing and surveillance in Africa contribute to a blind spot regarding how many people were exposed to SARS-CoV-2, but a recent meta-analysis of seroprevalence studies revealed that nearly two-thirds were infected and that the true number of cases might be 98 times higher than official numbers.

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They found that SARS-CoV-2 exposure surged from 3% in June 2020 to 65% in September 2021, fueled by the spread of the Beta and Delta variants.

 

The group estimated there were likely 800 million cases as of last September, compared with the 8.2 million that were officially reported at that time, or 97.6% higher."

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/04/study-about-two-thirds-africans-exposed-covid-19

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.14.22270934v1

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

And lastly, new estimate says almost 44% of the world's population had had at least one COVID infection up through mid-November 2021 ... but no sign of any so-called "herd immunity" effect even in places with much higher localized rates.

 

Estimate: Less than half the world has had COVID-19

 

"From March 2020 to the emergence of the Omicron variant in late 2021, about 3.8 billion COVID-19 infections and reinfections occurred, with nearly 44% of the world's population infected at least once but with wide regional variations, estimates a statistical analysis of 190 countries and territories published late last week in The Lancet.

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Up to Nov 14, 2021, an estimated 3.8 billion total COVID-19 infections and reinfections occurred, with about 3.4 billion people (43.9% of the world's population) infected at least once.

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Even at 80% total immunity [in some countries], there was no indication of an abrupt decline of infections, which the researchers said suggests no clear indication of herd immunity in the data."

 

(more)

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/04/estimate-less-half-world-has-had-covid-19

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00484-6/fulltext

 

For Thailand, through mid November 2021, their modeling suggests the country had:

--28,300 deaths

--8.1 million COVID cases

--with only about 11% of the population having been infected by that point.

 

As of that mid-November 2021 date, Thailand's official tallies were only just over 2 million cumulative COVID cases (meaning a four-fold undercount of likely cases) and 20,000+ COVID deaths (29% undercount compared to the estimate for that time).

 

 

As of now in April 2022, five months later and including all of the 2022 Omicron wave, Thailand's "official" numbers say only 3.9 million total infections since the start of the pandemic, and 26,395 official COVID deaths -- both still lower than the actual estimates from mid-November 2021.

 

 

 

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[anchadian]

Chonburi announces 981 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and five new deaths

 

Highlights:

981 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today

4,507 positive ATK (rapid antigen) tests were reported but all require a second confirmed PCR test before being counted as official cases. The ATK positive tests are just “possible” cases until confirmed by PCR. TPN notes, however, that second confirmed tests are no longer mandatory except for high-risk groups.

1,339 (PCR) and 6,334 (ATK) recovered and were released from medical care

Five new deaths

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/04/13/chonburi-announces-981-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-five-new-deaths/

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Thailand reports record high COVID-19 deaths

 

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Thailand on Thursday (April 14) reported 24,134 new COVID-19 cases, 26,997 recoveries and 115 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1256739-thailand-reports-record-high-covid-19-deaths/

 

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