Update on COVID-19 in Thailand: 7 February 2024

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We have now entered our 5th year since the first recognition of COVID-19. Overall, to date, 774 million cases and 7 million deaths due to this infection have been reported worldwide.  Although we are past the worst phase of the pandemic, COVID-19 has not gone away.

 

 

Thailand is currently experiencing a significant surge in COVID-related hospital admissions, serious pneumonia cases, individuals needing support from a mechanical ventilator and deaths.

 

There is no evidence that current COVID-19 strains cause higher levels of illness; instead, the upsurge in Thailand is due to higher transmissibility of the virus and lower adherence of people to personal protective measures. In addition, a significant minority of people in Thailand are either unvaccinated or are incompletely vaccinated. 

 

Full story: World Health Organization 2024-02-15

 

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[mfd101]

We thought we came home from a week in BKK in mid-Jan with symptoms of covid, and still a lingering cough & snot from time to time.

 

But I'm inclined to think it was the heavy pollution in BKK that - for the first time ever - set us off, and now persisting at low level in a south Surin more polluted than I ever remember it being.

[brommers]

It is about time that COVID vaccine was as readily available as flu vaccine. There can be no reason to restrict it's availability. There is no was I am going to the inconvenient hospitals where it is available in Chiang Mai but I would happily combine it and pay for it along with my flu vaccination at the private clinic that I use.