COVID-19 - April 29: Thailand reports 14,053 new coronavirus cases, 16,782 recoveries, 129 deaths

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Thailand on Friday (April 29) reported 14,053 new COVID-19 cases, 16,782 recoveries and 129 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Friday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 4,238,061 with 28,400 deaths.

 

The news comes as the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will not scrap the “Thailand Pass” scheme, as has been widely anticipated, but will shorten the registration process for overseas tourists applying to enter Thailand as the “Test and Go” one-night quarantine scheme for the fully vaccinated is scheduled to come to an end on May 1, CCSA assistant spokesperson Sumanee Wacharasint said.

 

Thailand Pass to stay, PM to oversee situation after end of "Test and Go"

 

Dr. Sumanee added, however, that when COVID-19 situation in the country steadily improves, the CCSA may consider further easing of restrictions.**

 

**Thai PBS contributed to this report

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Even as official COVID cases and lately even serious hospitalizations continue to mostly decline, Thailand on Friday once again tied its year-high record of 129 new COVID fatalities – now the country’s 20th consecutive day with 100 or more daily new COVID deaths.

 

Friday’s update by the Ministry of Public Health marked the fourth time this month Thailand’s official daily COVID deaths had hit the 129 peak for 2022, with the prior instances having occurred on April 19, 21 and 23. Daily deaths now have risen for the past three consecutive days.

 

Meanwhile, the tally of official new COVID cases declined for the second consecutive day from 14,437 yesterday to 14,053 today. And, the number of serious condition COVID hospitalizations declined from 1,827 yesterday to 1,818 today, its lowest daily total of the past week.

 

In addition, the subset of serious COVID hospitalizations in the worst condition -- those requiring intubation to breathe, also declined again, from 850 yesterday to 815 today, although part of that decline may be related to today's increase in new fatalities.

 

Overall, the total number of active cases under care continued its ongoing series of daily declines, falling from 158,768 yesterday to 155,910 today.

 

Thailand's counts of official daily new COVID cases are widely considered a vast undercount to the actual numbers of cases in the country. But the general movements up or down of the various statistics, especially daily deaths and hospitalizations, still gives some sense of the direction of the pandemic in the country.

 

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/550969339854728

 

 

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

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Dr. Yong from Chula University is out today with updated testing results on the COVID variant circulating in Thailand, and his testing shows it's pretty much all the BA2 Omicron variant for now:

 

https://www.facebook.com/yong.poovorawan/posts/7542642815778270

 

The BA2 variant is considered to be somewhat more likely to evade vaccine protections and become more transmissible than its BA1 predecessor, and thus is believed at least partly responsible for rising case counts in the United States and elsewhere:

 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/omicron-infection-what-are-the-symptoms#Tips-for-prevention

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

And, the latest news on the revised rules for international traveler arrivals, including that the Thailand Pass system will continue in revised form beyond May 1, despite prior speculation that it might be scrapped:

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-pass-to-stay-pm-to-oversee-situation-after-end-of-test-and-go/

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Bkk Brian]

PCR test positive cases, total of 14,053 official new infections. 129 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 12,233 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 26,286

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 27th April

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

 

 

 

[anchadian]

Phuket marks 73 new COVID cases, no deaths

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 73 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Apr 28), bringing the total number of infections recorded since Jan 1 to 51,857.

 

https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-marks-73-new-covid-cases-no-deaths-83972.php

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Just noticed, yesterday, the MoPH began using a new format for COVID deaths reporting, separating out people who it says "died from" COVID vs those its says died "with COVID".

 

Again, these numbers below are from yesterday. They haven't posted the similar report for today's deaths as yet. But it appears, they're still going to continue reporting the total of both categories in their total daily COVID deaths count.

 

I haven't seen any public explanation in English of what criteria they're using to distinguish between the two categories. Although about a month back, they were talking about only classifying deaths from COVID as being those with primary respiratory symptoms like pneumonia -- even though COVID actually can kill people through various other means including strokes, kidney failure, liver failure, etc etc.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/550530806565248

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/550525206565808/?type=3

 

 

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Even as official COVID cases and lately even serious hospitalizations continue to mostly decline, Thailand on Friday once again tied its year-high record of 129 new COVID fatalities – now the country’s 20th consecutive day with 100 or more daily new COVID deaths.

 

Friday’s update by the Ministry of Public Health marked the fourth time this month Thailand’s official daily COVID deaths had hit the 129 peak for 2022, with the prior instances having occurred on April 19, 21 and 23. Daily deaths now have risen for the past three consecutive days.

 

Meanwhile, the tally of official new COVID cases declined for the second consecutive day from 14,437 yesterday to 14,053 today. And, the number of serious condition COVID hospitalizations declined from 1,827 yesterday to 1,818 today, its lowest daily total of the past week.

 

In addition, the subset of serious COVID hospitalizations in the worst condition -- those requiring intubation to breathe, also declined again, from 850 yesterday to 815 today, although part of that decline may be related to today's increase in new fatalities.

 

Overall, the total number of active cases under care continued its ongoing series of daily declines, falling from 158,768 yesterday to 155,910 today.

 

Thailand's counts of official daily new COVID cases are widely considered a vast undercount to the actual numbers of cases in the country. But the general movements up or down of the various statistics, especially daily deaths and hospitalizations, still gives some sense of the direction of the pandemic in the country.

 

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/550969339854728

 

 

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

 

 

To me the death metric can be viewed from a different angle with the low case numbers entering the hospital.  We must remember that many are testing positive but electing to stay home and isolate, so one must wonder if that may play into the declining hospitalizations as they have family watching them as well as the local village clinics.  Just my thought process on this, as the two week lag would be now entering the Songkran week timeframe, and if these numbers keep riding along the same slope then one has to wonder why if the hospital numbers keep dropping.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

MoPH also had an interesting graphic yesterday showing the daily number of international arrivals since March 1 through April 27 (I'm presuming these numbers are just for air arrivals), and the share of those positive for COVID via either RT-PCR or ATK testing.

 

The blue bars show the numbers of daily international arrivals. The red line shows the corresponding COVID positive test results for them over the same period.

 

Again, I'm assuming the test results' positivity rates are those taken once people arrived in country, and not those pre-departure. The Thailand Pass system had been requiring pre-departure RT-PCR COVID testing, and those testing positive before departure wouldn't be allowed to fly.

 

If nothing else, it gives a good look at how the daily international travelers arrivals have been trending lately.

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/550525793232416/?type=3

 

And related:

 

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Looks like the U.S. is heading toward hitting the ignominious mark of 1 million cumulative COVID deaths sometime in the coming month or so.

 

 

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

 

 

‘Without a word for what we know’: The unfathomable loss of a million U.S. Covid deaths

 

"We’re now approaching a million officially counted Covid deaths in the U.S. alone. The journalistic response I was taught is to do a kind of imaginative arithmetic. Picture 17 Dodgers Stadiums, packed full of fans, each one mysteriously, wondrously alive, a slow evening of baseball distracting them from divorces and diagnoses and conversations they wish they’d navigated differently. Now picture them all gone. Picture some 5,500 commercial airplanes crashing in a little more than two years."

 

https://www.statnews.com/2022/04/25/one-million-covid-deaths-united-states/

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anchadian]

Pattaya News will cease reporting Chonburi Covid-19 updates on 01 May.

 

Chonburi announces 467 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and ten new deaths

 

The ten new deaths were aged 27, 39, 42, 46, 52, 62, 70, 71, 82, and 88 with severe personal health problems and pre-existing conditions. Four of them were not vaccinated.

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/04/29/chonburi-announces-467-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-ten-new-deaths/

[ThailandRyan]

23 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Pattaya News will cease reporting Chonburi Covid-19 updates on 01 May.

 

Chonburi announces 467 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and ten new deaths

 

The ten new deaths were aged 27, 39, 42, 46, 52, 62, 70, 71, 82, and 88 with severe personal health problems and pre-existing conditions. Four of them were not vaccinated.

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2022/04/29/chonburi-announces-467-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-ten-new-deaths/

So where will the report come from as far as cases are concerned, or are they deciding that reporting cases now is endemic.

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Partial excerpt of member @Eaglekott 's latest daily report on per capita COVID case numbers by province, ranked by most official cases per 100,000 population:

 

Chonburi has the highest per capita rate among the various farang-prominent provinces, followed closely by Samut Prakan.

 

 

 

[worrab]

First report since the 85 cases showing on 26th and we have another drop but the deaths are still prevalent.

 

Health officials on Friday (April 29) reported 64 new COVID-19 cases in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, of which 18 cases were found in Hua Hin.

Elsewhere in the province, 8 cases were found in Pranburi, 5 cases in Sam Roi Yot, 0 cases in Kuiburi, 9 cases in Thap Sakae, 8 cases in Bang Saphan, 1 case in Bang Saphan Noi, and 15 cases in Mueang Prachuap Khiri Khan.

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

 

https://www.huahintoday.com/local-news/april-29-prachuap-reports-64-new-covid-19-cases-18-in-hua-hin/

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COVID-19 - April 30: Thailand reports 12,888 new coronavirus cases, 17,105 recoveries, 126 deaths

 

 

Thailand on Saturday (April 30) reported 12,888 new COVID-19 cases, 17,105 recoveries and 126 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1258283-covid-19-april-30-thailand-reports-12888-new-coronavirus-cases-17105-recoveries-126-deaths/

 

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