anchadian Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 FRANCESCA REGALADO, Nikkei staff writerJuly 12, 2022 13:22 JST BANGKOK -- Thailand enters a five-day weekend on Wednesday with doctors warning that a COVID surge and undercounted cases are belying the government's ambitious reopening scheme. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Thailand-s-misleading-COVID-numbers-cast-a-shadow-on-reopening 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Reposed Posted July 13, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 13, 2022 TAT: Amazing Thailand! Come visit us....and bring your money....high-class only. See you soon! Tourist: I was going to come, but leading Thai doctors state you are undercounting your covid cases. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internationalism Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 chances of getting omicron in thailand are still lower, than in europe, where the summer wave is raging already and will likely last for all summer. all countries all under reporting, mainly to get tourism going. So understandable thailand will do it even more so. many pcr testing sites scaled down or closed down. People are just doing cheap ATK tests and only when they have symptoms or somebody close by. surely, there would be yet another wave in thailand (as it's in europe now), but not because of those 5 days holidays. Actually, not that great traffic on motorway yesterday and very light traffic today. It's raining almost constantly, people might travel, if some sunshine. Hotel prices on the beach constant low range 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterphuket Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 The problems about misleading covid numbers does not only exist in Thailand, also check out for example Hong Kong where it is still not allowed for tourist to visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Daily cases reported by Thailand's Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration are based on new hospital admissions, not positive tests. Cases found via home antigen test kits are tallied separately, sometimes double the official case count, and rely on self-reporting by patients recuperating at home. Yes. ...restaurants and bars in Bangkok are operating to capacity. Well, that could be a problem once the 'expected' millions of tourists return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thingamabob Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Covid numbers world-wide are totally unreliable, being either under-reported or over-reported in many countries. Impossible to know what's really going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardColeman Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 11 hours ago, anchadian said: BANGKOK -- Thailand enters a five-day weekend on Wednesday with doctors warning that a COVID surge and undercounted cases are belying the government's ambitious reopening scheme. Of course, like the rest of the world the idiots in charge of all the countries have seen the complete devastation the disease caused in the economies and now need get back on track as the deaths are just not worth the destruction and chaos. The human race is growing, not declining ! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJ2U Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Hiding COVID numbers in plain sight. There not fooling anyone and look pretty stupid doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andycoops Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Since when have the Muppets in charge ever told the truth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portlandtree Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Tourists are expected to inject 1.27 trillion baht into an economy lol not if cases here are really 30,000 like they say, either they wont come or end up sick and head back home so just maybe they inject half of that but thru hospital fees and changing flights to leave early Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OJAS Posted July 14, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2022 21 hours ago, Peterphuket said: The problems about misleading covid numbers does not only exist in Thailand But the Thai-bashing brigade on here would like us to believe that it does, of course. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorry Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 On 7/13/2022 at 4:36 PM, Peterphuket said: The problems about misleading covid numbers does not only exist in Thailand Chairith Yonpiam wrote an opinion piece in today's Bangkok Post, very much saying what OP said 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangkokReady Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 If people aren't visiting Thailand, it isn't because of underreported covid numbers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViajeroLA Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Covid + undercounted cases that's smth super unique. How to do it? Like "number of positive PCR tests / 1000" or something like that lol? Google how that tests work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arithai12 Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 20 hours ago, Lorry said: Chairith Yonpiam wrote an opinion piece in today's Bangkok Post, very much saying what OP said Sorry if I have no idea of who CY is, and why we should listen to his opinion in matters of Covid. So I looked him up, found that he is a journalist not a virologist, and that his "opinion piece" is a sorry attempt to get some attention by mixing apples and oranges. Sad that you fall for that. As for the OP, if you mean the Nikkei journalist, she has said absolutely nothing except repeating the rather obvious notion that there is a very large number of unreported infections that do not need to be treated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sqwakvfr Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 I do not believe in the numbers. Japan yesterday posted over 180,000 cases and 31,000 in Tokyo alone. I am in Chiang Mai and I work out at a hotel gym and lately the bathroom and showers have not been cleaned. It has been over a week since the showers and bathroom have been cleaned. I told the Gym Manager and the hotel manager about this and I got the usual we will clean it. As I was leaving the lobby of the hotel I overheard two employees talking and one mentioned “covid” several times. It could be a case where the hotel is short of workers due to Covid? Doubt Thailand only has 2000 case per day? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onthedarkside Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Several posts above has been removed for reasons including quoting foreign language news reports, being off-topic and misrepresenting a research study. "3. English is the only permitted language anywhere on ASEAN NOW, except within the Thai language forum, where using Thai is allowed." https://aseannow.com/terms/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excel Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 On 7/13/2022 at 8:45 AM, Reposed said: TAT: Amazing Thailand! Come visit us....and bring your money....high-class only. See you soon! Tourist: I was going to come, but leading Thai doctors state you are undercounting your covid cases. And in denial about Monkey pox too perhaps, so a potential double whammy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozimoron Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 (edited) On 7/16/2022 at 9:54 PM, BangkokReady said: If people aren't visiting Thailand, it isn't because of underreported covid numbers. Agree. Ever since the advent of ATK tests and omicron became the dominant strain people have failed to report infections in droves world wide. People are visiting Thailand now. I have been back here for 2 months and the change has been enormous. On Saturday night Walking Street in Pattaya was packed and I see tourists everywhere in large numbers, not as many as pre-covid for sure but I'd be happier to see fewer of them. Most of the WS bars are open again, as are all the nightclubs. Edited July 25, 2022 by ozimoron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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