The Thai MoPH has released its latest national stats of new COVID hospitalizations, which have increased about 550% since the start of April to more than 1,000 per week as of April 16 - 22.

 

The current number of new weekly COVID hospitalizations in Thailand is the largest of any weekly total since the start of 2023, although official COVID deaths were considerably higher at the start of the year.

 

New COVID hospitalizations that were running an average of 24 per day during the first week of April have now reached an average of 155 per day, according to the MOPH.  That means the weekly totals of COVID hospitalizations during that period rose from 168 to 1,088 per week over the past three weeks.

 

The latest weekly report from the Thai MoPH covering April 16-22 also recounts that Thailand has now had 6,571 COVID hospitalizations and 278 official COVID deaths since the start of the current year.

 

MoPH weekly COVID report for April 16 - 22

(The red shaded data below reflect COVID hospitalizations. The dark gray shaded sections reflect COVID deaths. The large sized numbers show the weekly totals, whereas the smaller sized numbers underneath reflect the resulting daily averages.)

 

 

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And here's where Thailand was, by comparison, in its first weekly COVID report for 2023, Jan. 1 - 7 -- 997 new COVID hospitalizations, and 58 new deaths.

 

 

In good news, the official weekly COVID death counts for Thailand declined into single digits as of mid-February, and have remained in single digits per week ever since.

 

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Worth noting regarding COVID and Thailand:

 

"In Thailand, from 3 January 2020 to 11:04am CEST, 19 April 2023, there have been 4,729,402 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 33,942 deaths, reported to WHO."

 

https://covid19.who.int/region/searo/country/th

 

A lady I saw the other day just tested positive for Covid-19. No idea if she will go to a hospital.