COVID-19 - May 2: Thailand reports 9,331 new coronavirus cases, 21,168 recoveries, 84 deaths

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Thailand on Monday (May 2) reported 9,331 new COVID-19 cases, 21,168 recoveries and 84 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Monday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 4,271,815 with 28,701 deaths.

 

The news comes as International travelers arriving in Thailand from May 1 are required to obtain the Thailand Pass prior to travel. The government’s COVID-19 task force says it will not remove this entry requirement at this stage, despite no longer requiring an RT-PCR test result.

 

The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) recently clarified that international arrivals must still obtain the Thailand Pass via online registration. The registration however requires fewer documents for people arriving from May 1, in line with the government’s relaxed entry measures.

 

Dr Sumanee Wacharasint, an assistant spokeswoman for the CCSA, said prepaid hotel bookings and a negative pre-departure RT-PCR test will no longer be necessary, but travelers will need to submit their vaccination certificates, along with travel insurance with eligible health coverage.**

 

**National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT) contributed to this report

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

After three straight weeks of new COVID deaths exceeding 100 per day, Thailand on Monday reported its second consecutive day under 100 with another decline to 84 new deaths, along with a parallel decline in official new COVID cases to 9,331, the first time under 10,000 in months.

 

Monday’s report by the Ministry of Public Health was a second straight day of good news for Thailand and its COVID situation, at least according to the government’s official reports. Daily deaths declined from 91 yesterday to 84 today, while new cases also fell from 11,535 yesterday to 9,331 today.

 

More broadly, the total number of active COVID cases under care in Thailand continued falling sharply, down from 140,989 yesterday to 129,068 today. Meanwhile, the government said the number of COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition nationwide remained unchanged at 1,751.

 

The only negative news in Monday's update was a small increase in the number of hospitalized serious condition COVID patients requiring intubation to breathe, which grew from 822 yesterday to 824 today.

 

Before the past two days, the last time Thailand had a daily count of COVID deaths under 100 was April 9. The last time Thailand had a daily COVID cases count under 10,000 appears to have been February 4 at 9,909.

 

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/553035972981398

 

 

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

 

Edited May 2, 2022 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Bkk Brian]

PCR test positive cases, total of 9,331 official new infections. 84 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 6,240 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 15,571

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 30th April

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

 

 

[Danderman123]

I am starting to walk the streets without a face mask.

[ThailandRyan]

22 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

I am starting to walk the streets without a face mask.

Streets of where? Thailand?

[Gottfrid]

So, judging out of the results given, they now publicly admit they stop testing totally.

 

17 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Streets of where? Thailand?

Nah, that must mean the streets of Ukraine. A place where wearing a mask or not is your smallest problem.

[Danderman123]

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Streets of where? Thailand?

I live in Thailand.

[ikke1959]

3 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

I am starting to walk the streets without a face mask.

Indeed ridiculous numbers .. first make people afariad that there will be 50k to 100k a day with 500 deaths possible and now after the scary Songkran we are under the 10k and that on a population of 70 million.... Get rid now of all restriction and continue with normal life.. and if someone want to wear a mask they can do it... but no must anymore....Give the people of Thailand their lives back ..... Spoke with many people who tested Covid positive and none of them had a lot of problems happily.... running nose, sore throat or a bit fever nothing more... So no need to continue anymore

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[spidermike007]

Thrilled to see lower numbers today. Let us hope this begins a trend of getting ahold of this thing, bringing things back to normal, getting rid of any and all restrictions, and the end of the emergency decree. The end of Covid may end up being the administration's worst nightmare. Covid sure played into their hands, and they did not hesitate for a minute to use it in a draconian fashion.  

[Eleftheros]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Covid sure played into their hands, and they did not hesitate for a minute to use it in a draconian fashion.  

To be fair, you could say that about almost every government from Australia to Austria. and South America to South Korea.

[RyanWalker]

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Thrilled to see lower numbers today. Let us hope this begins a trend of getting ahold of this thing, bringing things back to normal, getting rid of any and all restrictions, and the end of the emergency decree. The end of Covid may end up being the administration's worst nightmare. Covid sure played into their hands, and they did not hesitate for a minute to use it in a draconian fashion.  

Yeah but now you will see how tourists will be <deleted> over with scams. They have to make up for the last 3 years

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COVID-19 - May 3: Thailand reports 9,721 new coronavirus cases, 20,145 recoveries, 77 deaths

 

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Thailand on Tuesday (May 3) reported 9,721 new COVID-19 cases, 20,145 recoveries and 77 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1258502-covid-19-may-3-thailand-reports-9721-new-coronavirus-cases-20145-recoveries-77-deaths/

 

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