Thailand reports 79 new COVID-19 infections

[webfact]

Thailand reports 79 new COVID-19 infections

 

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Thailand reported 79 new coronavirus cases on Friday.

 

As has been consistent with cases during the new wave of infections in the country, most were discovered during testing of migrant workers at quarantine facilities and hospitals in Samut Sakhon.

 

Of the new cases, 65 were local transmissions, while 14 were imported from people entering quarantine.

 

79 people were discharged from hospital having made a full recovery, which is significant as there are now less one thousand people being treated for COVID-19 in Thailand. 

 

515 people remain in hospital or held in a migrant worker quarantine centre.

 

Friday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 26,241, with 85 deaths. 

 

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[Phuketshrew]

???? I commented on this photo a couple of weeks ago - look's like he's still trying to find it ...

[Oldie]

It is confusing. In a news source that cannot be named they write that they discovered 1 Chinese with Covid in Chonburi. In the source below they talk about 1 person from Switzerland with Covid in Banglamung (Chonburi). He went for a test himself. 

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/03/04/swiss-man-announced-as-one-new-confirmed-case-of-covid-19-in-chonburi/

[sapson]

Could be wrong but a few weeks back a couple of westerners wishing to return home also tested positive for covid on their mandatory pre flight check, believe they were long term Chonburi residents.

 

All a bit suprising because Thailand is of course virtually covid free apart from in Samut Sakhon.

 

Think westerners should be stopped from testing when they please because these positive tests do ruin the fantasy.

[Ohyesuare]

42 minutes ago, Oldie said:

It is confusing. In a news source that cannot be named they write that they discovered 1 Chinese with Covid in Chonburi. In the source below they talk about 1 person from Switzerland with Covid in Banglamung (Chonburi). He went for a test himself. 

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/03/04/swiss-man-announced-as-one-new-confirmed-case-of-covid-19-in-chonburi/

What's confusing? Today was the Chinese, yesterday was the Swiss person.

[scubascuba3]

so where were these 65 new infections? kinda important info I would have thought 

[KhunG]

47 minutes ago, Oldie said:

It is confusing. In a news source that cannot be named they write that they discovered 1 Chinese with Covid in Chonburi. In the source below they talk about 1 person from Switzerland with Covid in Banglamung (Chonburi). He went for a test himself. 

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/03/04/swiss-man-announced-as-one-new-confirmed-case-of-covid-19-in-chonburi/

The Swiss guy was yesterday.  The Chinese today.

[Oldie]

24 minutes ago, Ohyesuare said:

What's confusing? Today was the Chinese, yesterday was the Swiss person.

You are right. They must have updated it. 

 

Just found more about the Chinese. He is in Banglamung too. 

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/03/05/chinese-national-announced-as-one-new-local-transmission-of-covid-19-in-chonburi/

Edited March 5, 2021 by Oldie

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Friday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 26,241, with 85 deaths. 

And vaccine roll out at what ? 0.01% ?

[DLock]

I wonder if this counts the 2 African beauty contestants?

[dinsdale]

48 minutes ago, DLock said:

I wonder if this counts the 2 African beauty contestants?

No it does not.

[KhunG]

1 hour ago, DLock said:

I wonder if this counts the 2 African beauty contestants?

Yes, they were included in the Bangkok totals.

[owenm]

I find it very difficult to understand the reported Covid-19 cases from Samut Sakhon, when the daily reported cases over the past few weeks have been floating around 45-95, down from 700-300 daily in the weeks prior. How many daily covid tests are conducted to find these positive cases? Then how many outer rings of contacts are tested and further isolated and locked down? 

 

In Australia you have your initial positive cases, then family and close friends and work colleagues, shops, shopping centres, public transport and taxis visited or used are then your first ring of contacts due to the highly contagious nature of this virus. They are then tested and put into ISO for 14 days.  Then their families, friends and close contacts become the second ring to be locked down and tested. Then their contacts become the third ring and are also locked down only until a negative test result. 

 

In Melbourne, Australia there was a recent state lockdown due to a handful of positive cases, where daily tests have been 15,000 to 23,000.. For each positive case, with their 1st, 2nd and 3rd ring of contacts, can grow to 100+ close and indirect contacts and businesses visited. And the cases can grow fast, from 1 to 10 to 90 to 500 to thousands, unless adequate testing numbers take place daily, and fast effective contact tracing where cases emerge. A large contingent of professional contact tracing staff need to be employed to prevent further spread of covid. With the incubation period of up to 14 days, numbers will usually exponentially grow and when contained will contract with reduced cases. 

 

But the daily Thai positive cases are constantly floating around for weeks on end, up and down.. Not usual characteristics of this highly contagious Covid-19 virus.. 

 

Either Thailand isn't testing enough people in the 13 provinces, where a recent cluster has grown to 635 reported cases, or there may possibly be thousands of hidden cases in the community that haven't been found yet, due to inadequate testing numbers.. 

 

 

[Petey11]

48 minutes ago, owenm said:

I find it very difficult to understand the reported Covid-19 cases from Samut Sakhon, when the daily reported cases over the past few weeks have been floating around 45-95, down from 700-300 daily in the weeks prior. How many daily covid tests are conducted to find these positive cases? Then how many outer rings of contacts are tested and further isolated and locked down? 

 

In Australia you have your initial positive cases, then family and close friends and work colleagues, shops, shopping centres, public transport and taxis visited or used are then your first ring of contacts due to the highly contagious nature of this virus. They are then tested and put into ISO for 14 days.  Then their families, friends and close contacts become the second ring to be locked down and tested. Then their contacts become the third ring and are also locked down only until a negative test result. 

 

In Melbourne, Australia there was a recent state lockdown due to a handful of positive cases, where daily tests have been 15,000 to 23,000.. For each positive case, with their 1st, 2nd and 3rd ring of contacts, can grow to 100+ close and indirect contacts and businesses visited. And the cases can grow fast, from 1 to 10 to 90 to 500 to thousands, unless adequate testing numbers take place daily, and fast effective contact tracing where cases emerge. A large contingent of professional contact tracing staff need to be employed to prevent further spread of covid. With the incubation period of up to 14 days, numbers will usually exponentially grow and when contained will contract with reduced cases. 

 

But the daily Thai positive cases are constantly floating around for weeks on end, up and down.. Not usual characteristics of this highly contagious Covid-19 virus.. 

 

Either Thailand isn't testing enough people in the 13 provinces, where a recent cluster has grown to 635 reported cases, or there may possibly be thousands of hidden cases in the community that haven't been found yet, due to inadequate testing numbers.. 

 

 

They've recently been showing about 3000 test per day, for the whole country, when cases were in high hundreds, testing mostly migrant quarantine, they were about 10-12000 per day. As stated by CCSA the cost was too high so they scaled back and were mulling the idea of using antibody tests as much cheaper, although useless at controlling numbers, but good to see who may have had the virus previously. To my knowledge no news has been published from these antibody testing. As seen recently most cases are from people reporting to hospitals due to voluntary testing or they are ill enough to go to hospital. The system does not encourage people to seek tests because the risk of been locked in isolation in hospital or one of the internment, sorry, quarantine facilities. Obviously infections are not as prevalent as some countries but reporting 50-100 cases a day, these people are not getting a miracle solitary infection. I've always said that the situation in Thailand with covid defies all the laws of nature of this virus.

[dinsdale]

5 hours ago, KhunG said:

Yes, they were included in the Bangkok totals.

US, Russia, United Abarb Emirates, Germany, Italy, Libya and South Africa were the imported positives. Bangkok 3 Thais and 3 from Myanmar. a. why would these girls be included in the BKK figures and not quarantine figures and b. please tell us how you know this.

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, Petey11 said:

They've recently been showing about 3000 test per day, for the whole country, when cases were in high hundreds, testing mostly migrant quarantine, they were about 10-12000 per day. As stated by CCSA the cost was too high so they scaled back and were mulling the idea of using antibody tests as much cheaper, although useless at controlling numbers, but good to see who may have had the virus previously. To my knowledge no news has been published from these antibody testing. As seen recently most cases are from people reporting to hospitals due to voluntary testing or they are ill enough to go to hospital. The system does not encourage people to seek tests because the risk of been locked in isolation in hospital or one of the internment, sorry, quarantine facilities. Obviously infections are not as prevalent as some countries but reporting 50-100 cases a day, these people are not getting a miracle solitary infection. I've always said that the situation in Thailand with covid defies all the laws of nature of this virus.

Please show us where you are getting these figures from. I do agree with you though except the testing numbers.

Edited March 5, 2021 by dinsdale

[dinsdale]

2 hours ago, owenm said:

I find it very difficult to understand the reported Covid-19 cases from Samut Sakhon, when the daily reported cases over the past few weeks have been floating around 45-95, down from 700-300 daily in the weeks prior. How many daily covid tests are conducted to find these positive cases? Then how many outer rings of contacts are tested and further isolated and locked down? 

 

In Australia you have your initial positive cases, then family and close friends and work colleagues, shops, shopping centres, public transport and taxis visited or used are then your first ring of contacts due to the highly contagious nature of this virus. They are then tested and put into ISO for 14 days.  Then their families, friends and close contacts become the second ring to be locked down and tested. Then their contacts become the third ring and are also locked down only until a negative test result. 

 

In Melbourne, Australia there was a recent state lockdown due to a handful of positive cases, where daily tests have been 15,000 to 23,000.. For each positive case, with their 1st, 2nd and 3rd ring of contacts, can grow to 100+ close and indirect contacts and businesses visited. And the cases can grow fast, from 1 to 10 to 90 to 500 to thousands, unless adequate testing numbers take place daily, and fast effective contact tracing where cases emerge. A large contingent of professional contact tracing staff need to be employed to prevent further spread of covid. With the incubation period of up to 14 days, numbers will usually exponentially grow and when contained will contract with reduced cases. 

 

But the daily Thai positive cases are constantly floating around for weeks on end, up and down.. Not usual characteristics of this highly contagious Covid-19 virus.. 

 

Either Thailand isn't testing enough people in the 13 provinces, where a recent cluster has grown to 635 reported cases, or there may possibly be thousands of hidden cases in the community that haven't been found yet, due to inadequate testing numbers.. 

 

 

Yep. Nothing like that here. I've said before there are two ways to get zero. Mass testing or no testing. We all know what Thailand is doing.

[Petey11]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Please show us where you are getting these figures from. I do agree with you though except the testing numbers.

https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/situation.php or https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/eng/situation.php. Thai site is updated regularly but English version sometimes goes several days without refreshing information.