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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. 

 

Tuesday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 4,281,536 with 28,778 deaths.

 

The news comes as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O’Cha was satisfied with the significant decrease in daily Covid-19 infections in Thailand, government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana revealed yesterday, May 2nd.

 

The spokesperson told the Associated Press that the Prime Minister saw the decrease as a good sign in controlling the domestic spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Thailand.**

 

**THE PATTAYA NEWS contributed to this report

 

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Thailand on Tuesday reported a third consecutive day of new COVID deaths under 100, with yet another daily decline to 77. At the same time, official new COVID cases increased to 9,721, but current serious COVID hospitalizations fell again to 1,669, now the lowest level in more than two months.

 

The mixed report issued by the Ministry of Public Health was highlighted by a fourth consecutive daily decline in new COVID deaths, down from 84 yesterday and a year-high total of 129 only last Friday. The current number of COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition also fell from 1,751 yesterday, continuing a steady decline.

 

In another piece of good news, the subset of the serious condition hospitalized patients in the worst condition -- those requiring intubation to breathe -- also declined from 824 yesterday to 804 today, the lowest daily number in almost a month.

 

The only main uptick in Tuesday’s report was the tally of official new COVID cases, which ended five consecutive days of daily declines as cases increased from 9,331 yesterday to 9,721 today. Those still were Thailand's only two days of new cases under the 10,000 mark since early February.

 

More broadly, the total number of active COVID cases under care in Thailand continued falling sharply, down from 129,068 yesterday to 118,567 today.

 

Before the past three days, the last time Thailand had a daily count of COVID deaths under 100 was April 9. The last times before today that Thailand had daily COVID case counts under 10,000 were yesterday and then February 4 before that.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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One can only hope that the numbers reported are indeed truthful and show that the Omicron cases finally are really falling.  However, I am sure, after hearing anecdotal evidence, that many are treating their own Omicron cases at home and not reporting them as well as not seeking assistance.  If this is the trend and is to be believed then we can expect to hopefully see the end of the Emergency decree, the restrictions as well as regulations that are in force.  I would hope that folks would still be vigilant and if ill stay out of the public and isolated from family just as we all should have done in prior years having a cold or the flu.  I expect that an annual booster like those given for Pneumonia, or the Flu, or even every few years like Tetanus, and Hepatitis (if needed) will become the norm.

Edited May 3, 20224 yr by ThailandRyan

Any reported numbers are incomplete without regular random sampling and consideration of overall excess deaths.  It is however certain that  most countries have negotiated Omicron by a return to normality provided vaccine coverage in the at risk groups is sufficient. Given that confirmed cases are often a massive undercount, and even allowing for an undercount of deaths, it's likely that true covid deaths from the Omicron variant are fractional.  It was thought that because the latest variant is so infectious that health facilities would be overwhelmed. This has failed to occur in countries adequately prepared.

 

Many have noted that Omicron appears only to truly abate when a large majority of the population becomes infected.  Restricting its spread may be a poor second choice, and likely reflects poor vaccine strategy, and perhaps an overfondness for micro management imo. It does however appeal to administrations who pride themselves on control.

 

Broadly speaking there is no longer an emergency public health issue, though special preventative measures should be, but haven't been, successfully executed regards the elderly. They then have become the pawn in the game.  In short, had 95% of elderly people been properly vaccinated Thailand would already be back to normal.

 

 

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 9,721 official new infections. 77 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 5,016 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 14,737

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

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 1st May

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

 

 

 

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

However, I am sure, after hearing anecdotal evidence, that many are treating their own Omicron cases at home and not reporting them as well as not seeking assistance.  If this is the trend and is to be believed then we can expect to hopefully see the end of the Emergency decree, the restrictions as well as regulations that are in force.

I've seen the same process round here. People who test positive on ATK quite often don't bother to go for a PCR, but just stay at home for a week; nobody seems to be getting ill.

 

One logical step they could take is to stop announcing daily case numbers as they are not anywhere the real case numbers, anyway. But I suppose the government thinks that will cause people to "drop their guard", whatever that is supposed to mean.

One thing to note is that published positivity rate, 40%. Shows that testing has truely dropped off IMO.

COVID-19 - May 4: Thailand reports 9,288 new coronavirus cases, 19,119 recoveries, 82 deaths

 

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Thailand on Wednesday (May 4) reported 9,288 new COVID-19 cases, 19,119 recoveries and 82 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1258603-covid-19-may-4-thailand-reports-9288-new-coronavirus-cases-19119-recoveries-82-deaths/

 

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