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Thailand on Friday (April 22) reported 21,808 new COVID-19 cases, 19,826 recoveries and 128 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Friday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 4,128,038 with 27,520 deaths.

 

The news comes as Thailand’s Center for Medical Genomics (CMG) at Ramathibodi hospital has issued a warning about a new Omicron sub-variant, BA.2.12.1, which is becoming more prevalent in the US, accounting for roughly 20% of all new cases across America, and believed to be highly contagious.

 

Citing a report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), issued on Tuesday, the CMG said that BA.2.12.1 is estimated to be 23% to 27% more transmissible than its predecessor BA.2 and is fuelling a resurgence in COVID cases in upstate New York.**

 

**Thai PBS contributed to this report

 

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Thailand on Friday closed out the first work week post the Songkran holidays with very little change in its reported COVID situation, as new deaths declined by one to 128 and serious COVID hospitalizations continued a slow decline to 1,985, the first time under 2,000 in more than a week.

 

The Friday update from the Ministry of Public Health marked Thailand’s 13^th consecutive day of 100-plus COVID deaths, and Friday’s tally remained just below the year-high daily record of 129, which was reported yesterday. Serious hospitalizations, meanwhile, marked a fourth consecutive daily decline that most recently went from 2,021 yesterday to 1,985 today.

 

Elsewhere, the MoPH reported 21,808 new official COVID infections for the day, a slight decline from the 21,931 reported yesterday. But active COVID cases under care nationwide increased slightly to 190,780, up from the 188,926 reported yesterday.

 

Nowhere in Friday's reported statistics was there any clear sign of the post-Songkran surge in new COVID infections and illnesses that the government's public health authorities have been preparing for and publicly warning about for weeks.

 

Although Thailand has a narrow definition of what constitutes an official COVID case, RT-PCR results are counted but positive ATK tests are not, even an uncounted cases surge would at some point begin to translate into increased hospitalizations and deaths -- which hasn't been happening yet.

 

For 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/546632653621730

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 21,808 official new infections. 128 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 20,635 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 42,443

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 20th April

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

 

 

WHO weekly update from 20th April:

 

Although the number of seriously ill COVID-19 cases remains lower than the peak in August 2021, both severe and ventilated cases have been steadily climbing, with ventilated cases increasing faster and just 23% below their highest ever reported levels of August 2021. Despite these increases, there remains capacity in the healthcare system to admit patients. The policy of not confirming by PCR testing for all probable cases, as well as the widespread use of rapid antigen tests (including those available 'over the counter' that may not be reported), continues to make it difficult to monitor the situation accurately. However, from the data reported, the increasing transmissibility of the Omicron variant is clear, with nearly half (49%, 1.8 million) of all COVID cases (4 million) in Thailand reported in the last 4-months from 1 January 2022, which was the time when the Omicron variant started to dominate circulation.

 

https://www.who.int/thailand/emergencies/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports

7 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

both severe and ventilated cases have been steadily climbing,

 

Although it's not reflected on the WHO chart dated thru April 20 that's using 7-day average numbers, actually, the official daily numbers of serious COVID hospitalizations have been declining daily for the past 4 days since reaching the year high of 2,123 on April 18.

 

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Although it's not reflected on the WHO chart, actually, the official numbers of serious COVID hospitalizations have been declining daily for the past 4 days since reaching the year high of 2,123 on April 18.

 

yea agreed, the WHO update on the chart is up to the 19th April

As of this hour, it looks like MoPH has failed, for some reason, to update today's numbers for serious hospitalizations and intubations on their daily dashboard report. (The current version as of this moment is still showing yesterday's numbers, even though the rest of the data shown has been updated for today). So I'll post today's dashboard image without the incorrect/out-of-date data from yesterday. Hopefully they'll get around to fixing and updating that info at some point.

 

 

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

 

PS - they never did end up updating the dashboard report for today with the correct serious hospitalizations and intubations data...  But they did later report it elsewhere, as follows:

 

 

Phuket marks 180 new COVID cases, no new deaths

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 180 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Apr 21), bringing the total number of infections recorded since Jan 1 to 51,002.

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-180-new-covid-cases-no-new-deaths-83891.php

WHO backs Pfizer's oral COVID therapy for high-risk patients

 

April 21 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday endorsed the use of Pfizer Inc's oral COVID-19 antiviral treatment in high-risk patients after an analysis of trial data by the U.N. agency showed the therapy dramatically cut the risk of hospitalisation.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-backs-pfizers-oral-covid-therapy-high-risk-patients-2022-04-21/

 

 

30 minutes ago, anchadian said:

WHO backs Pfizer's oral COVID therapy for high-risk patients

 

April 21 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday endorsed the use of Pfizer Inc's oral COVID-19 antiviral treatment in high-risk patients after an analysis of trial data by the U.N. agency showed the therapy dramatically cut the risk of hospitalisation.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-backs-pfizers-oral-covid-therapy-high-risk-patients-2022-04-21/

 

 

Thailand ordered enough for 50,000 people in March.

 

Thailand signs deal with Pfizer to supply 2 million anti-viral Paxlovid tablets

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/half-the-population-has-gained-herd-immunity-government-target-is-80

 

Maybe someone's been air-heading again but in the middle of this widely circulated recent report the following appears :

 

"Chakkarat is more concerned about the elderly. He says there’s a risk the younger age groups could have passed the virus on to elderly relatives during the holiday, adding that around 55% of people in high-risk groups are not vaccinated at all."

 

If true, then that's awful.  It would make a total mockery of vaccination, especially where Omicron is concerned since it primarily affects the people mentioned, and not the ones presumably well vaccinated already and indeed at little intrinsic risk regardless.

Everybody going to get covid some point. Many people going to get it many times. Just was news that some nurse in UK get covid second time after 3 weeks from first infection. Ofcourse many country is in different situation about pandemic but in Europe almost all is like before covid. Nobody has ever force you to wear mask in here but now they have take off to even recommendation to use it. Finnair goign to trop off mask use in their flights starting from next monday, only need use if arrival country demand it. Fact is that we need to start live whit covid not hide. Life must go on, sadly its going to take some casualtys from people who have some kind illnesses or from older folks. I have zero sympathy to people who not take vaccines and those people cant keep other people hostage. Yes some coutrys has failed to deliver vaccines to all citizens or dont have enough money to deliver but hole world cant wait those countrys and stick head in bush!

Excellent news for fully vaccinated tourists but how long will it last?

Furthermore, insurance reduced to $10,000.

 

THAI NEWS REPORTS: Entry rules for vaccinated arrivals has been relaxed. They no longer need to do a test on arrival or book a hotel. They are free to travel anywhere on arrival. They should only do a self-ATK test if they have symptoms. Due to start from 1 May. #Thailand

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1517378140053831680

Just now, webfact said:

Yeah but crucially not enough of the only people who really need it. 

Immunity against Covid-19 surges with viral-vector booster jab: study

 

A viral-vector vaccine such as AstraZeneca should be taken as a booster by people whose first two doses have been inactivated vaccines, a top virologist said on Friday.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/life/40014809

I don't believe any figures comming out of Thailand where I live in the west we have a population of just 2.5 million, still wearing masks and have an average of about 9000 infection per day

Chonburi announces 882 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and seven new deaths

 

No one was listed as being in serious condition in Chonburi currently.

 

The seven new deaths were aged 60, 70, 71, 78, 85, 96, and 98 with severe personal health problems and pre-existing conditions. Four of them were not vaccinated.

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/04/22/chonburi-announces-882-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-seven-new-deaths/

An unexpected drop from 171 cases yesterday and no deaths today which is good.

 

Health officials on Friday (April 22) reported 134 new COVID-19 cases in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, of which 37 cases were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 10 cases were found in Pranburi, 10 cases in Sam Roi Yot, 11 cases in Kuiburi, 12 cases in Thap Sakae, 10 cases in Bang Saphan, 5 cases in Bang Saphan Noi, and 38 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan.

No new COVID-19 related deaths were reported in the province today.

 

https://www.huahintoday.com/hua-hin-news/april-22-prachuap-reports-134-new-covid-19-cases-37-in-hua-hin/

 

 

6 hours ago, mommysboy said:

"Chakkarat is more concerned about the elderly. He says there’s a risk the younger age groups could have passed the virus on to elderly relatives during the holiday, adding that around 55% of people in high-risk groups are not vaccinated at all."

 

If true, then that's awful.  It would make a total mockery of vaccination, especially where Omicron is concerned since it primarily affects the people mentioned, and not the ones presumably well vaccinated already and indeed at little intrinsic risk regardless.

 I'm not sure just who he's including in the definition of high risk..

 

But the group we usually start with in such discussions is the senior citizen age 60 and up population. And among those, 60% have yet to receive a third dose booster shot that's needed with Omicron.

 

The non-boosted share among the general population is even higher, at about 64%.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/546784033606592/?type=3

 

COVID-19 - April 23: Thailand reports 20,052 new coronavirus cases, 22,361 recoveries, 129 deaths

 

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Thailand on Saturday (April 23) reported 20,052 new COVID-19 cases, 22,361 recoveries and 129 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1257606-covid-19-april-23-thailand-reports-20052-new-coronavirus-cases-22361-recoveries-129-deaths/

 

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