By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

National — A Thai physician who specialized in emerging infectious diseases urged the Ministry of Health to reveal the actual number of Covid-19 new cases as the number may have gone far beyond the one currently disclosed to the public, according to him.

 

Deputy Minister of Health Satit Pitutecha revealed to the associated press that the number of Covid-19 new cases has reached around 20-30 thousand per day already in his opinion if integrating all patients who have registered for medicine and supportive funding from the National Health Security Office (NHSO).

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/07/09/leading-thai-physician-urges-public-health-ministry-to-reveal-actual-number-of-new-covid-19-cases-including-all-asymptomatic-and-mild-cases/

 

-- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-07-11

 

- Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here.

 

Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

How can they do that when the vast majority of cases aren't reported?

Maybe he's been reading stuff like this (which includes data from Thailand):

 

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker

Proof if ever the Bee Gees father was playing away on his trip to Thailand

And how's that going to help exactly? 99% of the population still wearing face masks even though they don't have too and all that while Thailand be trying to get more tourists in...

5 minutes ago, ezzra said:

And how's that going to help exactly? 99% of the population still wearing face masks even though they don't have too and all that while Thailand be trying to get more tourists in...

...to promote the perception of an open and honest government?

1 hour ago, madmitch said:

How can they do that when the vast majority of cases aren't reported?

6 in this household and scores of people we know who just took paracetamol and isolated when we had, non of us report that we had it, why would we, hmmmm, perhaps we should do that with the cold or mild flu as well, because that is all that all of us experienced.

 

Time to move on Doc and stop your political non sense, the game is over, the ball was hit out of the park and no one is playing the game anymore.

 

Edited July 10, 20223 yr by 4MyEgo

The government wants tourists to come whatever the number of cases. It isn't politics but economics. Let's see if the cases reported rises, then what happens to tourism. 

Personally, I believe the country needs to push industry and technology so that tourism becomes a smaller fraction of the economy. For that to happen, education needs to improve.

In a followup story, Pitutecha contacted the AP again this morning as he only got 14 minutes of fame yesterday....

As most of us arw aware, there are two types of COVID-19 tests available in Thailand - (i) Antigen Test Kit (ATK) or Rapid Antigen Test, and (ii) Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR).  Although the Ministry of Public Health reports positive results on both tests, only RT-PCR positive results are counted, for memory.

A leading Thai physician.

Does that overule engineer Anutin. Curious.

1 hour ago, Purdey said:

 

Personally, I believe the country needs to push industry and technology so that tourism becomes a smaller fraction of the economy. For that to happen, education needs to improve.

Tourism in Thailand accounts for only around 10-11% of GDP, but employs a lot of people.

12 minutes ago, KhonKaenLive said:

Stop testing and counting cases. If you're sick, stay home or go see a doctor. 

Good basic advice.

I have the feeling that COVID in some variant or other is on the way back into our lives.

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

6 in this household and scores of people we know who just took paracetamol and isolated when we had, non of us report that we had it, why would we, hmmmm, perhaps we should do that with the cold or mild flu as well, because that is all that all of us experienced.

 

Time to move on Doc and stop your political non sense, the game is over, the ball was hit out of the park and no one is playing the game anymore.

 

I think the problem with reporting the disease is that the government (local, regional and central) take over your life.....force you into hospitals at enormous expense etc. 

Is this guy on drugs? What people who did not have any symptoms, wopuld

report to anyone about having COVID, if they did not know they had it?

  His math sure does not add up in my books.

Well done Sir, for not wearing a mask - you have my support!!

Plastic surgeon poster child 

7 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Proof if ever the Bee Gees father was playing away on his trip to Thailand

You said that in a high-pitched voice........????

7 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Well done Sir, for not wearing a mask - you have my support!!

Not because he does not wear one otherwise, rather he is obviously the Thai Don Johnson and had to mug for the camera....

 

The cabinet in his bathroom is not the only vanity in his house.

 

 

10 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I have the feeling that COVID in some variant or other is on the way back into our lives.

It is not covid. 

It is Emergency Decree.