Thailand’s weekly Covid-19 cases surge over 500 with three fatalities

[webfact]

The Department of Disease Control in Thailand (DDC) reported a sudden surge in weekly Covid-19 cases with over 500 new patients and three fatalities. The DDC revealed 88 cases of pneumonia among Covid patients. The report, which covers the period from November 26 to December 2, confirms an average of 76 hospital admissions and one death per day.

 

Since the start of the year, the total number of Covid cases has reached 36,204, with 826 cumulative deaths. Among these, 88 patients have been diagnosed with pneumonia and 40 required respiratory support.

 

In response to the worrying trend, the DDC urged the public to adhere to strict respiratory infection prevention measures, including wearing face masks in crowded places and close contact with group 608, which includes unvaccinated children.

 

The department also recommends frequent hand washing and self-testing for the virus using Antigen Test Kits (ATK), especially for group 608. If the ATK result is positive, individuals are advised to seek medical attention immediately.

 

by Nattapong Westwood 

Picture courtesy of Bangkok One.

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-12-05

 

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[hotchilli]

I wonder if the issue in China is starting to spread further afield?

[Scouse123]

You don't think Thailand is going to allow that COVID nonsense back into the media just when tourism is bouncing back?

 

Far more interesting stories like tourist forecasts, the Ukraine war and the Israel-Gaza conflict to occupy the media.

 

Leave Covid on the back burner.

[RobU]

Just got the flu jab for .myself and my wife. It's french made and cost 700 baht each, which is around the same price as in the UK (£16)

I want to get the COVID jab, news reports from the UK say it costs £100 which will make a big dent in our household budget if the prive is thr same price here 

[dinsdale]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The DDC revealed 88 cases of pneumonia among Covid patients.

Pnueumonia is unrelated to covid-19/Omicron so these are incidental numbers. How many of the rest are also incidental? Once again with deaths no information regarding comorbidities/age is given, however, 3 deaths in a week is a miniscule number in the population base. 

[Geoffggi]

Is it really COVID-19? I thought we had moved on to other strains, maybe it's just the reporting that has not moved on ......

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, Geoffggi said:

Is it really COVID-19? I thought we had moved on to other strains, maybe it's just the reporting that has not moved on ......

Still a variant of Omicron. 

 

[Ben Zioner]

Always wonder about how many posters here are Navy seals Doctors.

[Skeptic7]

Co-what❓ So what❓❗❓

[ikke1959]

The only country in the world that makes headlines of Covid again.. No wonder everybody is still wearing a mask...we never get rid of it..

[RobU]

COVID, like Flu, is still dangerous and can kill. Like Flu it is now endemic in the population of the world. Other countries do report on COVID. Again, like Flu, a very virulent and deadly mutation can arise, as happened with flu in the 1920's. Elderly are particularly likely to die from flu and COVID infections where the rest of the population just shrug it off, so it is wise for people over 65 to get the vaccination for the current strains of both viruses. 

[dinsdale]

56 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

The only country in the world that makes headlines of Covid again.. No wonder everybody is still wearing a mask...we never get rid of it..

Where I am, recently the ratio of mask wearers to non mask wearers has changed significantly in favour of non-mask wearers. Around 80-20 split. Sadly this might reverse that, as in general, I find Thais are very uneducated about Covid-19. Some still mask up to go into 711 where there has been no need to do so for well over a year.

[Scouse123]

The Thais don't see mask-wearing as protecting the public from catching Covid from them, they see it the other way around.

[ikke1959]

2 hours ago, RobU said:

COVID, like Flu, is still dangerous and can kill. Like Flu it is now endemic in the population of the world. Other countries do report on COVID. Again, like Flu, a very virulent and deadly mutation can arise, as happened with flu in the 1920's. Elderly are particularly likely to die from flu and COVID infections where the rest of the population just shrug it off, so it is wise for people over 65 to get the vaccination for the current strains of both viruses. 

It is a part of life.. everybody has to die, no matter of flu, covid, bacterial infections, or anything. It happens and yes elderly die too more chance the older they are... but nothing to panic about.. part of being born

[RobU]

29 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

It is a part of life.. everybody has to die, no matter of flu, covid, bacterial infections, or anything. It happens and yes elderly die too more chance the older they are... but nothing to panic about.. part of being born

I agree, however it is human nature to strive to live and want to be healthy. Therefore we should take advantage of every opportunity to stay alive and well. Preventative vaccinations are part of that striving, unless we have chosen to die which everybody has the right to choose.

[dinsdale]

19 minutes ago, RobU said:

I agree, however it is human nature to strive to live and want to be healthy. Therefore we should take advantage of every opportunity to stay alive and well. Preventative vaccinations are part of that striving, unless we have chosen to die which everybody has the right to choose.

It would seem that the preventative jabs in this case may well have been detrimental to some staying alive and well.

[RobU]

13 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

It would seem that the preventative jabs in this case may well have been detrimental to some staying alive and well.

Possibly for a small minority, however for the vast majority it prolonged and saved lives. It is always a risk taking any medicine or having any surgical procedure. Life is about taking risks just like crossing the road the aware pedestrian does it with the least risk to him/herself

[dinsdale]

29 minutes ago, RobU said:

Possibly for a small minority, however for the vast majority it prolonged and saved lives. It is always a risk taking any medicine or having any surgical procedure. Life is about taking risks just like crossing the road the aware pedestrian does it with the least risk to him/herself

 The small minority was and is far higher than any other vaccine. Apart from that the likelyhood of them surviving Covid-19 and now especially Omicron would have been very high. I guess the advice they got they thought they weren't taking a risk.

[RobU]

2 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

 The small minority was and is far higher than any other vaccine. Apart from that the likelyhood of them surviving Covid-19 and now especially Omicron would have been very high. I guess the advice they got they thought they weren't taking a risk.

The risk may be higher but it is still extremely small hence it is worthwhile taking that risk. More people died from COVID than died from the vaccination 

[ChaiyaTH]

But but they promised i would be safe with 1 shot. Then 2, 3, 4, 5… and most that die had most shots too lol.

[The Fugitive]

6 hours ago, RobU said:

Just got the flu jab for .myself and my wife. It's french made and cost 700 baht each, which is around the same price as in the UK (£16)

I want to get the COVID jab, news reports from the UK say it costs £100 which will make a big dent in our household budget if the prive is thr same price here 

I was fortunate last year when I returned to UK. My GP's practice had already invited me via text for a Pneumococcal vaccination which is apparently valid for life. I had that and also the influenza jab before coming back to Thailand. This year I retuned to Thailand before the influenza jab and Covid booster for over 65's became available.  

[still kicking]

9 hours ago, RobU said:

Just got the flu jab for .myself and my wife. It's french made and cost 700 baht each, which is around the same price as in the UK (£16)

I want to get the COVID jab, news reports from the UK say it costs £100 which will make a big dent in our household budget if the prive is thr same price here 

I am lucky I am a pensioner and, in the West, now I pay nothing had 4 covid shots and the yearly flu shot 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

The Department of Disease Control in Thailand (DDC) reported a sudden surge in weekly Covid-19 cases with over 500 new patients and three fatalities.

Thaiger notwithstanding, the latest news re rising COVID hospitalizations in Thailand (not just cases, per se, which they no longer report) is not a "sudden surge."  It's a trend that's been growing and rising steadily for almost the past two months.

 

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

MoPH: "The DDC is working relentlessly to bring the situation under control, relying heavily on public cooperation in following the recommended preventative measures and getting vaccinated."

 

Oh ya?? Then why has there been almost total silence from the Thai government on plans for making available the newer COVID vaccines designed to better protect against the latest circulating COVID virus variants?

 

And, short of that, why lately has there been basically no public information available from MoPH at all about how / where these days to obtain even the older bivalent versions of the COVID vaccines for those who have no other option in Thailand?

 

If anyone is "working relentlessly" at MoPH and DDC, they don't seem to be doing so for anything relating to the COVID vaccines that they're recommending the public get!

 

Edited December 5, 2023 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Puccini]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

In response to the worrying trend, the DDC urged the public to adhere to strict respiratory infection prevention measures, including wearing face masks in crowded places and close contact with group 608, which includes unvaccinated children.

 

I find the news article to which a link is given in the OP interesting because it does not say who or what the "group 608" is, other than to mention that it "includes unvaccinated children"

[CharlieH]

Reported post with misinformation and the replies to it have been removed.

[luckyblock token]

18 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

The Thais don't see mask-wearing as protecting the public from catching Covid from them, they see it the other way around.

both ways are nonsense and useless

[Bobthegimp]

On 12/5/2023 at 3:37 AM, webfact said:

close contact with group 608, which includes unvaccinated children

 

Lovely, let's mess up the kids even more.  Good thing the polio vaccine wasn't such a failure or we'd all be limping around or on an iron lung ! 

[BE88]

After a plane trip to Europe I came down with a cold, Covid 1 and 2 and 3, the doctor asked me how many vaccines I had had? I replied no one and she replied well, you would get well soon.

[RobU]

6 hours ago, Puccini said:

 

I find the news article to which a link is given in the OP interesting because it does not say who or what the "group 608" is, other than to mention that it "includes unvaccinated children"

https://www.chula.ac.th/en/news/78251/

Explanation of group 608

Edited December 6, 2023 by RobU
Correcting a typo