Thailand reports one new coronavirus case, total reaches 41 - health official

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Thailand reports one new coronavirus case, total reaches 41 - health official

 

FILE PHOTO: Commuters wearing protective masks ride the skytrain in Bangkok, Thailand, February 26, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand recorded one new case of coronavirus, bringing the total in the country to 41 since January, a senior health official said on Friday.

 

The new case is a 25-year-old Thai man, a tour guide who recently returned from South Korea and was diagnosed with the virus on Feb. 24, Sukhum Kanchanaphimai, the health ministry's permanent secretary said in a news conference.

 

So far, 28 coronavirus patients have recovered and returned home and 13 are still being treated in hospitals.

 

More than 2,700 people in China have died from the virus but Thailand has not recorded any fatality so far.

 

(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-02-28

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[holy cow cm]

Tick Tock - Tick Tock - Tick Tock. Just a matter of time. Time to stock up on supplies at home. 

[FarFlungFalang]

4 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

Tick Tock - Tick Tock - Tick Tock. Just a matter of time. Time to stock up on supplies at home. 

Not for Thailand as they will continue to take 3-4 days to confirm each case whilst thoroughly checking these individual cases to make sure they keep Thailand's face saving intact and further slipping down the confirmed cases list to show how well they are doing in controlling the spread of the virus.Which of course is very clever.They've had a lot of practice in controlling the narrative of the Administration controlled media and medical establishments.

[MikeyScars]

Easy to read controlled Thai media.  

Blame it on Japan and Korea.

"Thai national came back from aforementioned countries, and they got infected.  NOT in Thailand, we are the victim here"

Weasels....

[Cabradelmar]

Pitiful... Trying to safe face once again

[justin case]

and chinese are sitll free to roam the country but a lot of fuzz for a few thais now ?

[chilly07]

It is very difficult to believe unlike Japan Iran Italy where infection hotspots have been declared that with the 200k++ Chinese Nationals plus the Cambodian Vietnamese Malaysian and Burmese workforce in Thailand miraculously hotspots have not occurred bearing in mind that the Chinese live and work all over the world

[chilly07]

Apologies- omitted S Korea in my list of hotspots!

[csmith]

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[csmith]

https://apps.apple.com/th/app/healthlynked-covaid-19-tracker/id1500575377

[BEngBKK]

4 hours ago, chilly07 said:

It is very difficult to believe unlike Japan Iran Italy where infection hotspots have been declared that with the 200k++ Chinese Nationals plus the Cambodian Vietnamese Malaysian and Burmese workforce in Thailand miraculously hotspots have not occurred bearing in mind that the Chinese live and work all over the world

I did not know that all Chinese people are infected.... so sad

 

[Caldera]

"The new case is a 25-year-old Thai man, a tour guide who recently returned from South Korea and was diagnosed with the virus on Feb. 24"

 

Diagnosed with the virus on Feb 24th and it increases the count on Feb 28th? That's a bad joke.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

14 minutes ago, Caldera said:

"The new case is a 25-year-old Thai man, a tour guide who recently returned from South Korea and was diagnosed with the virus on Feb. 24"

 

Diagnosed with the virus on Feb 24th and it increases the count on Feb 28th? That's a bad joke.

 

They were trying to find a way to diagnose the guy with nail fungus.... But couldn't quite make that one work... So in the end, they bailed out and voted for CV.... 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Seriously, there have been quite a lot of reports lately about problems with the original RT-PCR testing method that health officials around the world have been using to primarily diagnose CV. As in, a lot of cases that test as negative end up actually being positive. And along those same lines, sentiment that chest CT scans may be a better diagnostic tool. Plus issues about overly restrictive guidelines being used about just who SHOULD be tested once ill.

 

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if any number of the negative test results Thailand is getting for its suspect cases end up being actual CV cases.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/health/coronavirus-test-kits-cdc.html

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/27/coronavirus-testing-california/

 

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The problems underscored by the California case include the limited availability of tests — which were shipped out to labs nationwide with a problematic component that is only now being corrected — and the federal testing criteria, which had become outdated as the outbreak evolved from being centered in China to spreading in more than three dozen countries. On Thursday, the CDC also expanded federal guidelines to include testing for people who have unexplained severe respiratory symptoms and people with symptoms who have recently traveled to Iran, Italy, Japan or South Korea.

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226151951.htm

 

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In a study of more than 1,000 patients published in the journal Radiology, chest CT outperformed lab testing in the diagnosis of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The researchers concluded that CT should be used as the primary screening tool for COVID-19.
 

In the absence of specific therapeutic drugs or vaccines for COVID-19, it is essential to detect the disease at an early stage and immediately isolate an infected patient from the healthy population.
 

According to the latest guidelines published by the Chinese government, the diagnosis of COVID-19 must be confirmed by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) or gene sequencing for respiratory or blood specimens, as the key indicator for hospitalization. However, with limitations of sample collection and transportation, as well as kit performance, the total positive rate of RT-PCR for throat swab samples has been reported to be about 30% to 60% at initial presentation.
 

In the current public health emergency, the low sensitivity of RT-PCR implies that a large number of COVID-19 patients won't be identified quickly and may not receive appropriate treatment. In addition, given the highly contagious nature of the virus, they carry a risk of infecting a larger population.

 

Edited February 28, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Mung]

3 hours ago, BEngBKK said:

I did not know that all Chinese people are infected.... so sad

 

According to Chinas current population numbers, and confirmed cases, around 1 in 1,625 Chinese people have been infected. Of course the real number will be more towards 1 in 500 or even towards 300, considering that most people do not even go to hospital or seek medical help with the virus, but lets run with 1,625. 
I've seen that from January 1st to February the 20th, 226,000 Chinese tourists were accounted for. With the obviously low figure of 1 in 1,625 people infected, we arrive at 139 infected people from China alone in that small window. That is the lowest possible number using logic and math. Where have those people been, who have they been in contact with, and why are the Thai cases way below that, when considering all nationals? 

Edited February 28, 2020 by Mung

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Another strange, as yet unverified report re CV out of Hong Kong, courtesy of the NYT:

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A dog owned by an infected person is tested for the virus, raising transmission concerns
 

A dog that was owned by a Hong Kong resident infected with the coronavirus tested “weak positive” for the pathogen, the city’s government said Friday, but experts cautioned that further tests were needed to confirm whether the animal had actually contracted the virus.

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The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said it would conduct additional tests to determine if the initial findings were the result of “environmental contamination” rather than an infection. Ben Cowling, a professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong, said the result could indicate that the dog “licked a contaminated surface and the virus was picked up as contamination, not infection.”
 

The dog was taken by the authorities and put in quarantine. ... The Health Department said on Friday that, going forward, pets owned by residents who tested positive for the virus would be placed in quarantine for 14 days.

 

 

[30la]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand reports one new coronavirus case, total reaches 41 - health official

Strange that in Thailand Covid 19 cases are only 41 when in other countries they go in the hundreds, it is luck or fake numbers ...

[christophe75]

7 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Another strange, as yet unverified report re CV out of Hong Kong, courtesy of the NYT:

 

 

I found something interesting...

 

The pet dog problem/risk... doesn't seem new (regarding coronavirus).

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7312466_The_Prevalence_of_a_Group_2_Coronavirus_in_Dogs_in_Japan

 

Furthermore, we start to get more cases of "recovered"... who got infected AGAIN.

 

China first of course, then a japanse woman, then yesterday an Israeli... Today another Japanese man.

 

All those "weird" data need to be researched, and not discarded. People do not believe the Hong Kong dog story, it seems that the virus presence is "small" in that pet (so what ?) 

 

Reinfection and pet animals "carriers".. those could be 2 elephants in the room.

[superal]

Does anyone know if there is a detailed up to date map of the virus cases in Thailand / Cambodia / Laos ? 

 

Thus places to avoid 

 

 

[Tayaout]

3 minutes ago, superal said:

Does anyone know if there is a detailed up to date map of the virus cases in Thailand / Cambodia / Laos ? 

 

Thus places to avoid 

 

 

The information is tightly controlled but there is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_Thailand

[superal]

8 hours ago, Tayaout said:

The information is tightly controlled but there is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_Thailand

You would think that it would be important to inform the nation of the locations of confirmed virus cases by way of a daily bulletin  .

I am concerned that Thailand seems to be doing little or nothing to control the spread of the corona-virus .

Are they still accepting tourists from China , Japan , Italy etc ? If it becomes a pandemic it will be out of control . At the moment it could be controlled with strict rules and containment .

Thanks for the map link which of course is now history but thats all we have .