Thailand reports 111 new coronavirus infections, for total of 1,045

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Thailand reports 111 new coronavirus infections, for total of 1,045

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand reported 111 new coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 1,045, the government said on Twitter on Thursday.

 

A state of emergency took effect. Authorities in Thailand, which has suffered four deaths in the pandemic, set up checkpoints on major roads linking provinces so as to increase screening in a bid to limit spread of the virus.

 

Entry by non-resident foreigners has also been banned.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-03-26

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[Drax]

Non-resident wouldn’t be accurate. More like, non permanent resident status / work permit. Some people hold work permits and aren’t residents as been under 6 months here while some people on marriage visa are residents as lived for years and even pay taxes.
 

on positive side at least cases not going up. Hope everyone stays home and contributes to getting over this as soon as possible. If everyone did so in two weeks we’d be back to normal. 

Edited March 26, 2020 by Drax

[dinsdale]

Welcome to the four digit club.  5 digit club next. Within a month?

[edwardandtubs]

9 minutes ago, Drax said:

 Hope everyone stays home and contributes to getting over this as soon as possible. If everyone did so in two weeks we’d be back to normal. 

No it wouldn't because it's going to spread a lot within households first so we're looking at at least a month of this.

[tlandtday]

11 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Welcome to the four digit club.  5 digit club next. Within a month?

Easily be there right now with adequate testing.

[GeorgeCross]

encouraging figures, linear growth not exponential

 

[RotMahKid]

They let people spray out over the whole country and now have "low" or equal figures as before. Not so strange, it take some time that people start testing in the small villages and the numbers go up again.

 

[kevin612]

Prayut said ‘everything is under control’ months ago, and now cases exceeded 1000. No masks to the public, I am super disappointed how he runs the government.

[Guderian]

Trump says it's going to be over by Easter (which coincides with the start of Songkran this year). The deputy chief medical officer in the UK says the peak should be past and things will be improving by Easter. Where's the happy Songkran message from Prayut? Come on guys and gals, let's hope that the worst will be over by Songkran.

[Mavideol]

Thai Covid 19 report app still shows 934...., how often they update their reporting

 

https://covid19.workpointnews.com/

https://covidtracker.5lab.co/en?fbclid=IwAR1bAH4qDAZtWkdh2MVwAiFmow9lAtRFg78vPSZKr76__ezADDlBNwYHTyk

 

???? Total cases 934

New cases 107 / Deceased 4 / Recovered 70

– 26 March 2020 Source

Edited March 26, 2020 by Mavideol

[DLock]

13 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

encouraging figures, linear growth not exponential

 

 

It's amazing isn't it....doesn't follow the pattern that every other country has followed...

 

...unless...

[Solidpoo]

14 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

encouraging figures, linear growth not exponential

 

What the hell are you talking about. 

 

It's not even the start of the curve. It's only just starting to take hold in thailand. 

[Eibot]

Very encouraging figures yet again! It seems the virus isn't thriving in warm weather globally..which is also good news for colder countries where it's running rampant. I believe things will turn to normal at half April. Good news!

[xtof2]

21 minutes ago, kevin612 said:

Prayut said ‘everything is under control’ months ago, and now cases exceeded 1000. No masks to the public, I am super disappointed how he runs the government.

You're sarcastic, right ?

[xtof2]

46 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Welcome to the four digit club.  5 digit club next. Within a month?

Their computers cannot run more than 3 digits numbers. We're safe

[cornishcarlos]

30 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

encouraging figures, linear growth not exponential

 

I think you might find it's lineal testing, rather than lineal growth...

If you only test 100 people each day, you can only have 100 reported new cases each day...

 

[chrisinth]

34 minutes ago, edwardandtubs said:

No it wouldn't because it's going to spread a lot within households first so we're looking at at least a month of this.

Although not wanting to, I fully agree with that comment. This, IMO, is the biggest downside to confining people together (at this stage) regardless of their prior travel and socializing history before being told to stay at home as much as possible. If you can't self-quarantine at your own home, where do you do it? Many can't afford a hotel room.

 

Many, many families of Thais live together with multiple generations under the same roof. it is certainly a situation caught between a rock and a hard place. 

[CNXexpat]

Who hasn´t expect this after 10,000s left Bangkok last weekend and spread the virus all over the country - except the government.

[Eibot]

15 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

I think you might find it's lineal testing, rather than lineal growth...

If you only test 100 people each day, you can only have 100 reported new cases each day...

 

If that was really true, than the actual numbers would easily be x20. Looking at Europe we can see that roughly 15% needs hospitalization, thus meaning the hospitals should be overflowing with people right now. This is not the case... Furthermore we should see the death going up aswell, and this is also not happening. I believe Thailand is merely lucky with it's climate. I believe it would have been a disaster of unknown proportions if it was 20 degrees colder on average.

[garrya]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Welcome to the four digit club.  5 digit club next. Within a month?

I highly doubt the government would "allow" that sort of numbers. 

 

[cornishcarlos]

10 minutes ago, Eibot said:

If that was really true, than the actual numbers would easily be x20. Looking at Europe we can see that roughly 15% needs hospitalization, thus meaning the hospitals should be overflowing with people right now. This is not the case... Furthermore we should see the death going up aswell, and this is also not happening. I believe Thailand is merely lucky with it's climate. I believe it would have been a disaster of unknown proportions if it was 20 degrees colder on average.

 

We shall see...

[CLW]

For people who are comparing the trends and developments in Thailand with Japan, Singapore and South Korea, who brought down the number of cases successfully.

Come back to reality!

In those countries the people's attitude and the professionalism of the government is on a totally different level.

[Eibot]

2 minutes ago, CLW said:

For people who are comparing the trends and developments in Thailand with Japan, Singapore and South Korea, who brought down the number of cases successfully.

Come back to reality!

In those countries the people's attitude and the professionalism of the government is on a totally different level.

So far Thailand is doing a lot better than Japan and South Korea..

[Isaanbiker]

It's amazing how inaccurate the Thai news are.

 

Or very similar to those from Germany and other countries?

 

 

Newer info:

 

Editor's note: Updated March 25 with the latest information on COVID-19. 

 

The new coronavirus causing COVID-19 has led to more than 454,000 illnesses and more than 20,550 deaths worldwide. For comparison, in the U.S. alone, the flu (also called influenza) has caused an estimated 38 million illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

 

That said, scientists have studied seasonal flu for decades. So, despite the danger of it, we know a lot about flu viruses and what to expect each season.

 

https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html

 

 

Edited March 26, 2020 by metisdead
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[Isaanbiker]

1 minute ago, Eibot said:

So far Thailand is doing a lot better than Japan and South Korea..

Because they don't know it better. The virus is new. 

[CLW]

1 minute ago, Eibot said:

So far Thailand is doing a lot better than Japan and South Korea..

Because Thailand is still behind the development of infection of these countries by how many weeks? 2 or 3? 

Let's talk again in the near future about your opinion.

[Bkk Brian]

A lot more than 1045 if they actually did some testing, only 6,000 tested so far as of 22nd March...........

 

Altogether, approximately 6,000 people have been tested and received their results as of March 22 (data was later removed from website).

https://www.newmandala.org/universal-coverage-without-universal-testing-thailands-delays-in-access-to-testing-may-be-costly/

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Welcome to the four digit club.  5 digit club next. Within a month?

 

From Tuesday one week back to this week's Tuesday:

 

The number of confirmed COVID cases rose from 147 to 827, up 463%

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

A lot more than 1045 if they actually did some testing, only 6,000 tested so far as of 22nd March...........

 

 

A better indicator:

 

From Tuesday one week back to Tuesday this week in Thailand...

 

The total number of hospitalized patients under investigation for COVID rose from 2457 to 5357, up 118%

[FarFlungFalang]

11 minutes ago, Eibot said:

So far Thailand is doing a lot better than Japan and South Korea..

Just wondering how you know this as there are reports that up to 50%-70% maybe asymptomatic and testing people for antibodies hasn't begun and the experts are saying it's to early to make assumptions about what is happening.Is there any factual scientific data you can point to to support your claim?