Thailand reports 4,887 COVID-19 cases, 32 new deaths

[Bkk Brian]

6 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

2835 cases have been found in the prison system. So unless you have plans to be arrested and jailed in the near future you should be fine.  

 

The 2053 outside cases is what people need to focus on here, 

Whats fine about it, I thought there were prison guards, admin, delivery supplies and visitors daily that then go into the community and home.

[Somtamnication]

Shocking but not surprising. Multiply the prison covid numbers by how many family members visited them, exchanged bags of goodies, etc etc.

We are heading to another lockdown.

[Marvin Hagler]

I still see an awful lot of Thai people on various Facebook pages out and about and enjoying themselves with no masks. Many restaraunts in Rayong appear to be open as usual judging by their Facebook pages with people dining in as normal. People are completely free to travel around without any checks or hindrance and shopping makes are still open as usual.

 

There really are no measure in place to stop this spread as far as I can see from physical evidence available all over Facebook.

[Bkk Brian]

11 minutes ago, Victornoir said:

The figures remain stable around 2,000 new cases per day excluding prisons

Actually less than that if you exclude the slums, the markets, people catching at home, migrant camps, heck I'm sure we can reduce it to double digits.

Edited May 13, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[DirtyHarry55]

Been expecting this why did it take so long???!!!
It's been in the news since over a week that most protest leaders tested positive for COVID19 in Prison

so I guess they couldn't keep the lid on it any longer.
Or was it already reported on TV about protest leaders getting COVID19 last week I missed it??
 

Edited May 13, 2021 by DirtyHarry55

[BestB]

More than doubled overnight, we can forget about easing restrictions this month or even next.

 

Good news for Chonburi though , only 53 reported yesterday , which is less than half of what it use to be

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

These rolling seven-day average charts for COVID cases and deaths in Thailand since April 1 are going to get distorted in the coming days by the huge new cases announcement today by the government. But here they are anyway, as of the latest May 11 update that preceded today's announcement:

 

 

 

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand?country=~THA#what-is-the-daily-number-of-confirmed-cases

 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[Marvin Hagler]

3 minutes ago, BestB said:

More than doubled overnight, we can forget about easing restrictions this month or even next.

 

Good news for Chonburi though , only 53 reported yesterday , which is less than half of what it use to be

Does that number include the Prisons in Chonburi?

[FarFlungFalang]

35 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

In all likelihood, the 4,887 new case tally today with the 2,835 prisons portion has to be regarded as suspect.

 

I'm not doubting that 2,835 prison inmates have tested positive for COVID.

 

But I am doubting that they all tested positive in the past 24 hours or anything close to that timeframe.

 

The number is being driven by the fact that Thai corrections officials "announced" that total yesterday officially, meaning it now needed to be included in today's official update.

 

But in all likelihood, that accumulation of COVID cases in the prisons has been building for some time. Yet those cases are all getting piled into today's one day total.

 

 

Which begs the question of when were the positive tested inmates moved to the field hospital?Yesterday,or have they been holding back that info too?

Edited May 13, 2021 by FarFlungFalang

[anchadian]

The question remains, why weren't these prison infections reported by the Corrections Dept in previous Covid-19 daily updates?

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Sinovac is safe despite not being listed by WHO, FDA insists

 

The Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine is safe to use despite not being listed on the World Health Organisation’s Emergency Use Listing (EUL), said Food and Drug Administration (FDA) secretary-general Dr Phaisan Dankhum.

 

“There have been questions regarding the safety of the Sinovac vaccine, that it is not on the WHO's EUL,” he said.

 

“The EUL procedure is used in the Covax project and could be applied in countries where the vaccine registration and administration system is not yet complete. This does not mean that Sinovac has failed the qualification process, since the registration of vaccines in each country does not necessarily have to refer to the WHO listing,” Phaisan said.

 

(more)

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40000831

 

[BonnieandClyde]

27 minutes ago, Dmaxdan said:

2835 cases have been found in the prison system. So unless you have plans to be arrested and jailed in the near future you should be fine.  

 

The 2053 outside cases is what people need to focus on here, 

For sure... but if present trends continue the prisons will achieve herd-immunity before anywhere else and people will be trying to get in rather than out.

[Daithi85]

18 minutes ago, Marvin Hagler said:

I still see an awful lot of Thai people on various Facebook pages out and about and enjoying themselves with no masks. Many restaraunts in Rayong appear to be open as usual judging by their Facebook pages with people dining in as normal. People are completely free to travel around without any checks or hindrance and shopping makes are still open as usual.

 

There really are no measure in place to stop this spread as far as I can see from physical evidence available all over Facebook.

Ahh people  enjoying  themselves, good for them.  ????????????

[Bkk Brian]

Panupong "Mike" Jadnok becomes the latest activist to test positive for COVID-19 while being detained in prison. His attorney said he is seeking bail today since he is worried about Panupong's asthma

 

 

https://twitter.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1392676374003867649

 

[madmen]

If your a boozer stock up at least 3 months NOW 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

58 minutes ago, tonray said:

A very good reason to stay out of IDC...wonder what happened to the maskless "middle-finger" waving farang from last week who reportedly was caught on overstay ?

 

Earlier in this COVID wave, Thai Immigration was running their own off-site field hospital in BKK and had moved from IDC a large number of COVID positive detainees from there. They were kept at the field hospital for some time, before finally being returned to IDC.

 

Ahh... here we go... seems the IDC outbreak was back in March, and the Immigration field hospital used at the time recently has been converted into general use....

 

May 3 post here:

 

"Thailand's Immigration Bureau chief Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang visited premises in Bangkok that had been used to house migrant detainees after Covid-19 outbreaks in detention centers in the capital.

 

All these have now been transferred after recovering and will be deported. The detainees were hundreds of illegals who were in the process of being deported before the clusters came to light in March, reported Naew Na. 

 

The premises will now reopen as a field hospital for police with Covid and members of the general public who have tested positive.

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1215806-immigration-field-hospital-set-to-house-covid-19-patients-among-police-and-general-public-from-wednesday/

 

And earlier from March 18:

 

Seventy seven foreigners test positive for Covid at Immigration detention centre

 

Thailand's immigration chief Lt-Gen Sompong Chingduang admitted yesterday that 77 foreign migrants - mostly illegals from Myanmar - had tested positive in detention facilities in Bangkok.

 

The detainees were mostly being held in Bang Khen though print media mentioned Laksi and Don Muang.

 

Investigations are also taking place at the Suan Phlu detention center where the IB has its HQ.Immigration facilities for detainees are notorious for holding illegal immigrants in small, packed cells notes Thaivisa. 

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1210239-seventy-seven-foreigners-test-positive-for-covid-at-immigration-detention-centre/

 

The COVID case reporting from March 2021 shows a spike that could well reflect the addition of the IDC cases at that time:

 

Weblink:

 

[sapson]

Where you test you will find why does anyone expect any different? Thailand doesnt have a miraculous immunity to Covid.

 

Only the total negligent lack of testing over the last year created an absurd illusion of a virtually covid free Thailand that some actually believed.........including numb nuts and his gang running ruining the country.

[GeorgeEboy]

1 hour ago, WineOh said:

Here we go.

The flood gates are about to burst wide open..

 

Full lockdown on the horizon. 

I'm safe in my room with my wine????

The barn doors are being closed months after the horse ran out.  

[Bkk Brian]

Here we have the Thai government actively discouraging people to go to hospital for a test if they think they've been exposed to the virus but are asymptomatic.

 

Certainly keeps the hospital case finding numbers down.

 

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1392675968972689409

 

[onthedarkside]

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[Pravda]

What people really need to focus here and this is really encouraging is that tomorrow's numbers are likely to be 50% less.

 

 

[madmen]

5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Here we have the Thai government actively discouraging people to go to hospital for a test if they think they've been exposed to the virus but are asymptomatic.

 

Certainly keeps the hospital case finding numbers down.

 

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1392675968972689409

 

Standard around the world 

Same in Oz, stay home. Nothing the hospital can do in early stage and the chance of transmission is way to high by traveling and exposing hospital staff 

[Tropposurfer]

Vaccines vaccines and vaccinate ... got to get to that sweetspot of 70% + ... everyone ... eventually, so these damned mutations can be starved of hosts.

Plz the gods the govt get this together FAST before this thing goes south.
We all know what a devastating thing this ‘situation’ has been already for Thais, and so many others.

We can all help this by using our falang privilege, paying the bucks out and getting vaccinated so we can share our yummy new antibodies with others and thereby make them immune too.

[FarFlungFalang]

8 minutes ago, GeorgeEboy said:

The barn doors are being closed months after the horse ran out.  

I'm pretty sure this barn has no doors to close I think they bought some subs with the money meant for the barn doors.

[anchadian]

Read more:

https://www.thaienquirer.com/27447/opinion-thai-media-is-creating-divisions-with-their-description-of-virus-strain-from-india/

 

Opinion: Thai media is creating divisions with their description of virus strain from India

 

When former United States president Donald Trump referred to Covid-19 with desriptors like the “Kung Flu Virus” and the “Chinese Virus” just because it originated from Wuhan, China, alarm bells rang in my head, I knew something bad was coming.

 

But it wasn’t until a year later that I realized just how bad, and how powerful and sinister those words were. A year later and we see the repercussions of those words with rising hate crimes against Asians in the United States.

 

But it’s also not hard to understand why these senseless things happen. Racism and violence go hand in hand with language. Racist rhetoric has always been successful in laying the groundwork for the violence, oppression, and segregation in the world.

[Bkk Brian]

2 minutes ago, madmen said:

Standard around the world 

Same in Oz, stay home. Nothing the hospital can do in early stage and the chance of transmission is way to high by traveling and exposing hospital staff 

Yes but Thailand has a policy to quarantine all covid cases, they can't do that if they encourage them to stay at home and not go to the hospital for a test

[mommysboy]

Certainly, in the UK and some other countries, the actual infection rate was regarded as being far higher than official numbers which are only detected cases, by a multiple of 2-10 depending on whom who you believe. I think it can be assumed that Thailand has a big problem right now.  It really should go in to strict lockdown right now.

[onthedarkside]

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[FarFlungFalang]

1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:

Outside of prisons, the numbers have flatlined.

Inside Thailand the numbers are exponential!

[dinsdale]

13 minutes ago, madmen said:

Standard around the world 

Same in Oz, stay home. Nothing the hospital can do in early stage and the chance of transmission is way to high by traveling and exposing hospital staff 

 

Not true. In Oz they ask if you've got the slightest of symptoms get tested.  Of course in Oz there are places (not hospitals) that do mass community testing.