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Thailand sounds alarm as Arcturus strain arrives just in time for Songkran


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Thailand is once again on the defensive against COVID-19 after laboratory tests showed that the new, more contagious subvariant XBB.1.16 has landed on these shores.

 

Dr Supakit Sirilak, director-general of the Medical Sciences Department, reported that 27 cases of XBB.1.16 had been detected in Thailand as of April 17 and one of these had died.

 

“The deceased was an elderly foreigner with underlying health conditions. His death, therefore, may not directly reflect the severity of this subvariant but rather its impact on other risk factors,” Supakit said.

 

Health authorities have raised the alarm about XBB.1.16 and urged the public to keep their guard up. But they said there is no need to panic.

 

Threat of XBB.1.16

XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, is a subvariant of the Omicron bug that swept across the world last year. On March 22, the World Health Organization (WHO) listed XBB.1.16 as a variant under monitoring (VUM).

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-sounds-alarm-as-arcturus-strain-arrives-just-in-time-for-songkran/

 

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16 minutes ago, markclover said:

So where did this one come from?  A wet market in Russia?

Intertesting comment as a US senate investigation paper just released is saying that the covid origin may have come from an infected palm civit illegally sold to a wet market as meat from someone in the Wuhan institute. Interesting.

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5 hours ago, dinsdale said:

 

This rubbish is exactly why those who are ingnorant of the facts will panic.

Don't panic then.

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1 hour ago, BangkokReady said:

This is the problem with "emergency powers".  People don't want to give them up once the emergency is over.

How did any "emergency powers" benefit the government who used them in any way?

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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Dr. Nitipatana Chierakul, Head of the Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis Division at the Faculty of Medicine in Siriraj Hospital should be immediately arrested and changed with panic mongering. And his license to practice medicine should be permanently revoked. This is outrageous and highly irresponsible behavior. 

 

There is nothing scientific to point towards such a surge. This is likely based on an insane estimate of some sort. 

 

Lock up the doc. 

While I would want the same. Think of the consequences if someone has the power to lock a doc up because he don't like the docs opinion.....That would be far worse.
But maybe someone could look at his bank account and look how he earned how much money.....if I quadruple my income during a pandemic, I would not want it to end as well.

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Okay they knew it why let people play Songkran?? Abolish this life taking 7 days dangerous event, as long as there is nowhere Covid found anywhere in the world...

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4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Dr. Nitipatana Chierakul, Head of the Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis Division at the Faculty of Medicine in Siriraj Hospital should be immediately arrested and changed with panic mongering. And his license to practice medicine should be permanently revoked. This is outrageous and highly irresponsible behavior. 

 

There is nothing scientific to point towards such a surge. This is likely based on an insane estimate of some sort. 

 

Lock up the doc. 

Nobody is going to panic at this news, it's simply not going to happen.

 

10k cases a day is nothing in a country this size.

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2 hours ago, ukrules said:

Nobody is going to panic at this news, it's simply not going to happen.

 

10k cases a day is nothing in a country this size.

It might climb to 1,000 a day, then rapidly decline. That would be my guess. 

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13 hours ago, dinsdale said:

 

This rubbish is exactly why those who are ingnorant of the facts will panic.

Ignorance and a prevailing narrative for 3+ years. 

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8 hours ago, ozimoron said:

How did any "emergency powers" benefit the government who used them in any way?

Well for one the no gathering in public spaces turned a large wave of young anti Junta away

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lets shut down all Airports , border crossings , all schools , all businesses and achieve Zero covid deaths..... China did it successfully so why cant Thailand!!

ohh... in the meantime , lets not worry about road deaths , Amulets are good enough to save the ones who buddha desires.

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I'm all for over-reaction, I loved the Nana station area during Covid, it was like my own private little fiefdom, nobody on the sidewalks, and the massage ladies were so eager...

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3 hours ago, Enzian said:

I'm all for over-reaction, I loved the Nana station area during Covid, it was like my own private little fiefdom, nobody on the sidewalks, and the massage ladies were so eager...

Good points. Keep it going for 10 years. Scares off tourists. These strains will be around for ever in some form.

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