snoop1130 12,665 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 CCSA: Bangkok Is Spreading COVID-19 BANGKOK, Jan 21 (TNA) – The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration reported 142 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours and admitted that Bangkok was spreading the disease. CCSA spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said the 142 new cases comprised 125 local infection cases and 17 arrivals in quarantine. The total cases rose to 12,795. “In Samut Sakhon province, 63 cases were found. Samut Sakhon is a key target of active case finding. People at over 10,000 factories there must be tested within this month. Tests will be conducted at 50-60 factories a day,” Dr Taweesilp said. Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news/line-today-english-news-622234 -- © Copyright TNA 2021-01-21 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 Link to post Share on other sites
steevjee 125 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 Clearly they are now testing in BKK. Now get out into the country side and test test test..... then you will have the best chance to slay this dragon, just as Australia and NZ have done 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Geoffggi 4,674 Posted January 21 Popular Post Share Posted January 21 12 hours ago, snoop1130 said: CCSA: Bangkok Is Spreading COVID-19 It is no wonder that people are totally confused, the above headline says it all but another post reads "Thirteen types of business are allowed to reopen in Bangkok on Friday as the Covid-19 outbreak in the capital eased." They cannot both be correct so which is False News ............!!!!! 4 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Bender Rodriguez 3,053 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 up to the next lockdown flip flop country of the world Link to post Share on other sites
CLW 3,088 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 15 hours ago, steevjee said: Clearly they are now testing in BKK. Now get out into the country side and test test test..... then you will have the best chance to slay this dragon, just as Australia and NZ have done How do you know they are testing and how many? These number are never published... The use of words from the spokesman is very clever, he didn't exactly say how many people per day or in sum they are testing. I copy the paragraph: "In Samut Sakhon province, 63 cases were found. Samut Sakhon is a key target of active case finding. People at over 10,000 factories there must be tested within this month. Tests will be conducted at 50-60 factories a day,” Dr Taweesilp said. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Moonlover 7,193 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 (edited) 16 hours ago, steevjee said: Clearly they are now testing in BKK. Now get out into the country side and test test test..... then you will have the best chance to slay this dragon, just as Australia and NZ have done Thailand has successfully managed to 'slay the dragon' once without racing around the countryside wasting valuable recourses. They should carry on doing exactly what they did last year and also turn their attention to Myanmar. Help them overcome their Covid problem. In helping their ASEAN neighbour they will greatly reduce the risk of importing yet another wave. Edited January 22 by Moonlover 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffr2 9,914 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 58 minutes ago, CLW said: How do you know they are testing and how many? These number are never published... The use of words from the spokesman is very clever, he didn't exactly say how many people per day or in sum they are testing. I copy the paragraph: "In Samut Sakhon province, 63 cases were found. Samut Sakhon is a key target of active case finding. People at over 10,000 factories there must be tested within this month. Tests will be conducted at 50-60 factories a day,” Dr Taweesilp said. A lot of this info is in Thai only, and available in various Thai media outlets. Sadly, not all of it is translated into English. So hard to figure out what's going on for those of us who don't know the local language. Like me!! 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Oldie 4,139 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 "People at over 10,000 factories there must be tested within this month. Tests will be conducted at 50-60 factories a day,” Dr Taweesilp said." Let me calculate 60 factories x 30 days = 1,800 factories tested a month. 10,000 - 1,800 = forget it... The statement doesn't make sense. 4 Link to post Share on other sites
judokrab 68 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, CLW said: How do you know they are testing and how many? These number are never published... The numbers are published. You can access the data on the World-o-Meter site and on the Johns Hopkins site. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Popular Post Sunderland 1,142 Posted January 22 Popular Post Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, CLW said: How do you know they are testing and how many? These number are never published... The use of words from the spokesman is very clever, he didn't exactly say how many people per day or in sum they are testing. I copy the paragraph: "In Samut Sakhon province, 63 cases were found. Samut Sakhon is a key target of active case finding. People at over 10,000 factories there must be tested within this month. Tests will be conducted at 50-60 factories a day,” Dr Taweesilp said. If they are testing 50-60 factories per day and there are 10,000 factories, simple maths show that itn it will take 167-200 days to carry out tests in all those factories that 'must be tested within this month.' Impossible. More like 6 months! As usual, something is lost in translation or the people who said this are just stupid. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
Sunderland 1,142 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 31 minutes ago, Oldie said: "People at over 10,000 factories there must be tested within this month. Tests will be conducted at 50-60 factories a day,” Dr Taweesilp said." Let me calculate 60 factories x 30 days = 1,800 factories tested a month. 10,000 - 1,800 = forget it... The statement doesn't make sense. Agree with you 100%. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeffr2 9,914 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 27 minutes ago, judokrab said: The numbers are published. You can access the data on the World-o-Meter site and on the Johns Hopkins site. Numbers that are obtained from the Thai government. Who admit they don't test enough and don't know the true stats for cases and deaths. Just like most other countries. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
charmonman 1,940 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Can they not hire a professional English speaking editor to review and hopefully prevent these ridiculous and misleading headlines? Link to post Share on other sites
bino 1,369 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 7 hours ago, judokrab said: and on the Johns Hopkins site. I see the info for USA testing on the Johns Hopkins site, but nothing for other countries. I don't believe this info exists anywhere on the site. Can you explain how / where to see the Thailand testing results? Link to post Share on other sites
Dragonboat Ronin 33 Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 5 hours ago, bino said: Can you explain how / where to see the Thailand testing results? Try the worldometers site; there should be a column for 'Total Tests' and 'Tests per Million'. I highly recommend outworldindata.org site for number of tests done in relation to positive cases found. Link to post Share on other sites
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