Thailand reports 1,470 coronavirus cases, daily record 7 deaths

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Thailand reported 1,470 new COVID-19 infections on Thursday and 7 new deaths.

 

Of the new cases, 1,370 were local transmissions, while 100 were imported from people entering quarantine. 
 

18,148 people remain in hospital receiving treatment, 29,848 have recovered.

 

Thursday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 48,113 with 117 deaths.

 

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[Dmaxdan]

For me, the most important statistic here is the 7 new deaths. R.I.P  The sad reality of consistently finding more and more Covid infections every day. ????  

[beano2274]

Here is how Thailand is currently doing in the last 7 days

 

[ukrules]

I see we're being drip fed the bare minimum of information at the moment.

 

Where are these cases?

 

No breakdown by province?

 

[Mango Bob]

The people are dying because the government did not get the vaccine out to the people who needed it.  They wait and wait to type to save money.  But didn't care about saving lives.

[Marvin Hagler]

I said from the very beginning of this outbreak that the daily case numbers would top out at 1,000 per day as that was their testing capacity limit...I may if got the number wrong by 50% but the theory was correct...the numbers will never go higher than this and will stay the same no matter how bad the outbreak really is in reality...no one will ever know the true extent simply because they do not have the resources or desire to test any more people.

[dinsdale]

27 minutes ago, Marvin Hagler said:

I said from the very beginning of this outbreak that the daily case numbers would top out at 1,000 per day as that was their testing capacity limit...I may if got the number wrong by 50% but the theory was correct...the numbers will never go higher than this and will stay the same no matter how bad the outbreak really is in reality...no one will ever know the true extent simply because they do not have the resources or desire to test any more people.

As I said yesterday there is a positive test (owner of mum and pop shop)a couple of minutes away from where I am (driving). No mass testing going on to look for spread. This is of course will be happening across Thailand.

Edited April 22, 2021 by dinsdale

[ThailandRyan]

7 Deaths, RIP and my condolences to your families.  Maybe the Government will send officials to represent them at the funeral pyre, and express their sympathies, by paying respects and then paying for the needs of the families that they allowed the loved one to be removed from by not listening to the doctors and allowing travel over Songkran.  Malfeasance at its best. 

[2 is 1]

24 minutes ago, Mango Bob said:

The people are dying because the government did not get the vaccine out to the people who needed it.  They wait and wait to type to save money.  But didn't care about saving lives.

People have died covid already over year! Not many coutry have manage to vaccine citizen. Only USA, UK and Isreal are in good "shape" in vaccine program. More problems because Johnsson and Astrazeneca vaccine gives blood clotts. Just dont have enough vaccine! Israel pay double prize from Pfizer vaccine, reason they get that fast!

Edited April 22, 2021 by 2 is 1

[ourmanflint]

This seems relevant today. The Indian system is collapsing because of covid, deaths are being hugely under reported, but India are mass testing. Thailands numbers do not add up, they cannot hide deaths as easily as case numbers

 

If the variant going around Thailand is as bad as the Indian one, then Thailand must take action now. 

[Pattaya Spotter]

Four days in a row of stable case numbers...and continued no exponential increase in infections. Let's hope it continues and starts to decline soon.

[dinsdale]

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Four days in a row of stable case numbers...and continued no exponential increase in infections. Let's hope it continues and starts to decline soon.

Ask yourself why we are getting virtually identical numbers everyday.

[Petey11]

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Four days in a row of stable case numbers...and continued no exponential increase in infections. Let's hope it continues and starts to decline soon.

Numbers alone are no indication. Are tests increasing? What is the positivity rate of tests carried out? What is the number of PUI. All this information is needed to get a true picture. If tests stay the same and numbers the same? Tests go up, numbers same show a decline? Tests go down numbers go up show increase? Transparency of information is the key, clear simple information should be published. I would also like to know if the daily briefing on covid is subject to questions from the press or just a  statement type briefing?

[Pattaya Spotter]

58 minutes ago, Mango Bob said:

The people are dying because the government did not get the vaccine out to the people who needed it.  They wait and wait to type to save money.  But didn't care about saving lives.

Comparable sized countries, like the UK, France, and Italy, having the resources, have gone full in for vaccinations...let's look at the numbers of deaths to date:

 

UK...127,000

France...102,000

Italy...118,000

Thailand...117 (including yesterday's 7).

 

So which country, by your standard, has cared the most about saving lives? (And selfishly hording the world's vaccine supplies doesn't seem to have done these countries any good if minimizing deaths was the goal.)

Edited April 22, 2021 by Pattaya Spotter

[Jeffr2]

1 hour ago, ukrules said:

I see we're being drip fed the bare minimum of information at the moment.

 

Where are these cases?

 

No breakdown by province?

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports

 

https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld

[Pattaya Spotter]

5 minutes ago, Petey11 said:

Numbers alone are no indication. Are tests increasing? What is the positivity rate of tests carried out? What is the number of PUI. All this information is needed to get a true picture. If tests stay the same and numbers the same? Tests go up, numbers same show a decline? Tests go down numbers go up show increase? Transparency of information is the key, clear simple information should be published. I would also like to know if the daily briefing on covid is subject to questions from the press or just a  statement type briefing?

The numbers are all out there...and often posted in these daily Covid-19 numbers posts. If you want to dive deeply into the numbers they are available; however, most here just want to allege some vast government cover-up to hide the true figures.

[RichardColeman]

Thailand now number 2 (behind papua New Guinea) with 550% rise in weekly deaths.

 

Does not bode well for those holiday brochures. 

[Jeffr2]

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

The numbers are all out there...and often posted in these daily Covid-19 numbers posts. If you want to dive deeply into the numbers they are available; however, most here just want to allege some vast government cover-up to hide the true figures.

They have admitted from the start that they don't know the exact numbers as they weren't doing massive testing.  All in all, other than this recent wave, Thailand has done a pretty good job with regards to the virus.  Not doing a very good job at getting jabs.

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[mike1967]

And the rest!!

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[polpott]

Just now, Pattaya Spotter said:

Comparable sized countries, like the UK, France, and Italy, having the resources, have gone full in for vaccinations...let's look at the numbers of deaths to date:

 

UK...127,000

France...102,000

Italy...118,000

Thailand...117 (including yesterday's 7).

 

So which country, by your standard, has cared the most about saving lives? (And selfishly hording the world's vaccine supplies doesn't seem to have done these countries any good if minimizing deaths was the goal.)

UK 20 deaths today from a peak of 1600 at the end of January. New cases 2400 today from a peak of 68,000 at the beginning of January. More than 60% of adult population have received at least one dose of vaccine. 1 in 5 have had 2 doses. Vaccines work, lockdowns work.

[Rhacsyn]

27 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Ask yourself why we are getting virtually identical numbers everyday.

The good news is that the number of positive cases has declined considerably in the Hua Hin area (37 today) and Phuket (9 today) for example. There are no queues at the test centres in Phuket. In fact, the province has been actively pleading for people who may have been exposed to the virus to please come forward for testing, especially foreigners. Admittedly, the situation may be quite different in other provinces.  I have no real data on that other than the original shortage of suplies reported in the Bangkok area over a week ago.

 

Let's hope the numbers follow suit in other provinces soon.....

[ParkerN]

Just now, ThailandRyan said:

7 Deaths, RIP and my condolences to your families.  Maybe the Government will send officials to represent them at the funeral pyre, and express their sympathies, by paying respects and then paying for the needs of the families that they allowed the loved one to be removed from by not listening to the doctors and allowing travel over Songkran.  Malfeasance at its best. 

 

Sure, there will be plenty of weasel words but no action and no change in the disastrous direction being followed.

[Bkk Brian]

Tests and Positive cases following the expected pattern, the more you test the more you will find

https://ddc.moph.go.th/viralpneumonia/situation.php

[dinsdale]

New South Wales has a few positives in quarantine. Heard it said today that daily testing of the populice is quite low at the moment. 6000 a day but they want it back up to >13,000. Population of New South Wales just over 8 million. Relate tests per population and even at the low standard of 6000 tests per day equates at a guess to around 42,000 tests a day in Thailand. Around 1.2-1.3 million a month. So far just over 8,000,000 since the beginning. Australia 16,000,000, UK 146,000,000 and USA 433,000,000. To see one must first look.

Edited April 22, 2021 by dinsdale

[Kaopad999]

1 hour ago, 2 is 1 said:

People have died covid already over year! Not many coutry have manage to vaccine citizen. Only USA, UK and Isreal are in good "shape" in vaccine program. More problems because Johnsson and Astrazeneca vaccine gives blood clotts. Just dont have enough vaccine! Israel pay double prize from Pfizer vaccine, reason they get that fast!

Well, they are in good shape in terms of the vaccine roll out, but look  the amount of covid deaths in the UK and USA


UK 127,000 deaths ( similar population to the Thailand ) 

USA 596,000 deaths
 
Compare those figures to Thailand  = 110 deaths 

So, yeah those countries needed to be prioritized given the sheer number of cases and deaths. 




 

[dinsdale]

1 minute ago, Kaopad999 said:

Well, they are in good shape in terms of the vaccine roll out, but look  the amount of covid deaths in the UK and USA


UK 127,000 deaths ( similar population to the Thailand ) 

USA 596,000 deaths
 
Compare those figures to Thailand  = 110 deaths 

So, yeah those countries needed to be prioritized given the sheer number of cases and deaths. 




 

Trump and Johnson both said don't worry it's only the flu. Maybe with a more circumspect attitude the infection rate and death toll would be different.

[TheFishman1]

They only test 1000 people a day what would you expect TIT

[Kaopad999]

Just now, dinsdale said:

Trump and Johnson both said don't worry it's only the flu. Maybe with a more circumspect attitude the infection rate and death toll would be different.

That and properly closing down their borders, acting faster with lockdowns and stocking up on PPE.

Both governments  of the USA and UK failed miserably