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

[Trujillo]

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1392698081590743041

 

The latest color-coded map of Thailand has just been released: RED: More than 100 cases (3 provinces)

ORANGE: 51-100 cases (4 provinces)

YELLOW: 11-50 cases (11 provinces)

GREEN: 1-10 cases (45 provinces)

WHITE: 0 cases (14 provinces)

 

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Wow, amazing Thailand. So sorry to state the obvious, but things are looking good, yes? So why the panic? 

[Bkk Brian]

6 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 

Perhaps something like this?

 

April 4, 2021:

 

Thailand’s prisons on COVID-19 red alert'

...

"The department has also imposed other measures to prevent the spread of the virus. No prisoners will be allowed to work outside their prisons, there will be no transfers between prisons, no outsiders are allowed entry to prisons and new prisoners will be isolated in separate cells for 14-21 days and be screened at least twice before they are to be moved out of isolation."

 

 

Yes exactly, that worked out well then. Announce measures then no follow up until today when they had no choice.

 

We're still waiting for follow up with all the migrants that were locked up to a few weeks ago, but since there are no high profile cases there's no need for feedback I guess.

Edited May 13, 2021 by Bkk Brian

[Boomer6969]

What does a prison "lock down" look like in Thailand?

[AlfHuy]

7 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 

Perhaps something like this?

 

April 4, 2021:

 

Thailand’s prisons on COVID-19 red alert'

...

"The department has also imposed other measures to prevent the spread of the virus. No prisoners will be allowed to work outside their prisons, there will be no transfers between prisons, no outsiders are allowed entry to prisons and new prisoners will be isolated in separate cells for 14-21 days and be screened at least twice before they are to be moved out of isolation."

 

 

Prisoners not more allowed to shower together. One by one, ones a week and not sharing any soap.

[anchadian]

Coalition parties urges government to close all land borders

 

Coalition partners Bhumjai Thai and the Democrat Party have signaled to the cabinet that all of Thailand’s land borders must be closed in order to prevent more Covid-19 infections.

 

Thailand has currently imposed a mandatory 14 day quarantine to all visitors from abroad but Myanmar refugees have made their way into the country seeking to escape from the Myanmar Junta’s persecution.

 

The government has so far opened its borders temporarily allowing some refugees to enter before pushing them back once the violence dies down.

 

Read more:

https://www.thaienquirer.com/27453/coalition-parties-urges-government-to-close-all-land-borders/

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, Saltire said:

Yep it would take a very brave man to tell his Thai wife......................

 

 

 

...........anything (in my case).

 

 It is frustrating at times.....she is 'intelligent', but totally uneducated, having been forced to leave school at 12, sent 4 hours drive away, can you believe that????, to work in a roadside restaurant.....and never returned home.

 

So I used to try and explain things to her like tides, political systems, general relativity (joking)........but it seems she/Thais do not like to have their ignorance exposed by having things explained....so I tend to just tend to nod and smile if we get into any kind of discussion.......shame really.

 

 

[Rampant Rabbit]

Well  that Thai  lifestyle of sharing food, iced  water in buckets when at work which I often see for rural workers and construction workers all of course using the same cup  will come back to slap them hard. I  still see  Thais  daily without masks, or half  mast masks but only those filthy farangs make the headlines. Once again on my trip to the supermarket, plenty of them out there for  all to see

[ThailandRyan]

31 minutes ago, Trujillo said:

I hate to rain on your parade, but how many of the positive test prisoners died? 

Don't we have that figure? Ah, right; perhaps it's because the number is zero?

 

Nice work keeping the general public scared stiff. As long as the media and certain foreign blogger(s) keep associating positive test results with death, we will never get out of chasing our tail. 

 

"The wave from Songkran continues, and without folks understanding that without mass testing everywhere it keeps slithering along."

 

I forgot; please explain to me again how more testing stops a virus from spreading? 

Testing allows you to get ahead of the issue and ensure proper precautions are being taken where they were not before.  As far as deaths in the prisons, well that has not been disclosed and I posed a question regarding that.  It took them until today to load out all of the infections, so they were hiding those obviously, and maybe they are doing the same with the deaths.  It is a question posed only and in no way is it scaremongering.  These are questions asked so that we know the full extent of what is happening around us. But as always some like to spin things for their own agendas and personal views, or maybe they just do not want to know the hard true facts.  Would you like to be ahead of the Tsunami when it comes and easily able to escape it by having the proper information, or would you rather be given the information just as it hits land in front of you and rolls over the top of you.  Serious questions.  Enjoy your day and stay safe..  

[Neal182]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

 

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.

Exactly. We are told the number one thing you can do to help contain the virus is get tested and isolate until you get the results.

[Bkk Brian]

Chiang Mai hospital reports 7 new cases after patients lied about being infected. A hospital in the northern province of Chiang Mai has reported a new cluster of Covid-19 after 3 patients lied about being infected. The Central Chiang.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/chiang-mai/chiang-mai-hospital-reports-7-new-cases-after-patients-lied-about-being-infected

[Pattaya Spotter]

3 hours ago, Susco said:

 

Well they couldn't sweep those prison infections under the carpet, same as they limit their testing outside to keep the numbers low.

 

I wonder what the infection ratio was in the prisons

Now I'm not worried...those cellies ain't spreading it anywhere (but their prison).

[garzhe]

These prison infections are only in prisons in Bangkok.  There are 145 prisons and correction institutions in Thailand plus a number of immigration detention centers. Are we to believe that there are no infections in these places outside of Bangkok.

[smedly]

2 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

We can clearly see now that transparency in reporting the true numbers is highly questionable. How long did it take to accumulate 2,835 cases in prisons? Is it just a coincidence that they revealed these numbers only after the high profiled cases recently? What if those high profile cases hadn't be revealed would we have got these numbers now?

 

This peak naturally would not just vanish in one day and we should now start seeing a progression on this for all the daily tests carried out in those prisons, if not we know again the numbers are just not accurate.

 

More worrying, this was less than handful of prisons, what about all the other prisons throughout Thailand? When exactly are we going to know the numbers there.

 

I'm sure there's going to be a couple of posters here to try and set us straight and defend this, its going to be amusing to see your attempts.

 

This is a sad reality of the true situation in Thailand that we just got to know about, what else don't we know?

 

 

 

one thing seems to consistent 

 

for around 15k daily tests in the population they are finding around 2000 infected people 

 

I wonder what they would be finding if testing 1 million per day ?????

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I went back just now and re-read the Bangkok Post and ThaiPBS reports on the prisons COVID outbreak, and neither report had any mention whatsoever about over what period of time the positive COVID tests on the 2,835 inmates had occurred.

 

But there was this additional interesting stat:

 

According to the Corrections Department, there were 3,238 prisoners at the Bangkok Remand Prison as of May 5 -- and today was reported to have 1,795 COVID cases.

 

and 4,518 at the Central Women's Correctional Institution -- and today was reported to have 1,040 COVID cases.

[wensiensheng]

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

But are these cases in prisons across the country, or from two prisons in Bangkok?

 

I see references to cases in the prison “system” and the above specifically states prison across the country. But the actual case numbers I see quoted only refer to a single male and single female prison in Bangkok.

 

are there more cases in other prisons?

[robblok]

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Now I'm not worried...those cellies ain't spreading it anywhere (but their prison).

I never knew that prisoners were the only ones in prisons. I always was under the assumption there were people called guards and also other personnel. These could easily catch it too and spread it. Do you really think they would not get it.

[Susco]

2 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Now I'm not worried...those cellies ain't spreading it anywhere (but their prison).

Mind you, guards and other staff are not locked up, they are released every day

[wensiensheng]

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

I went back just now and re-read the Bangkok Post and ThaiPBS reports on the prisons COVID outbreak, and neither report had any mention whatsoever about over what period of time the positive COVID tests on the 2,835 inmates had occurred.

 

But there was this additional interesting stat:

 

According to the Corrections Department, there were 3,238 prisoners at the Bangkok Remand Prison as of May 5 -- and today was reported to have 1,795 COVID cases.

 

and 4,518 at the Central Women's Correctional Institution -- and today was reported to have 1,040 COVID cases.

It’s a very very high positivity rate

[wensiensheng]

4 minutes ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Now I'm not worried...those cellies ain't spreading it anywhere (but their prison).

It’s been reported that officials have tested positive and they were spreading it everywhere

[Spellforce]

Please don't panic because of those figures in jails.

 

What really matters are those figures, all the new rules/restrictions will depend on the new color of your province:

 

[ThailandRyan]

10 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Chiang Mai hospital reports 7 new cases after patients lied about being infected. A hospital in the northern province of Chiang Mai has reported a new cluster of Covid-19 after 3 patients lied about being infected. The Central Chiang.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/chiang-mai/chiang-mai-hospital-reports-7-new-cases-after-patients-lied-about-being-infected

And the continuing hiding or trying to hide their contacts with people who have been tested as positive, or being in attendance at a location deemed to be under investigation and high risk.  Articles on the news, in the papers and making rounds regarding the fines and possible imprisonment for failing to disclose this are not obviously having an impact or is it that people just don't give a cluck.

[MasterBaker]

isn't it ironic that criminals will get tested and vaccinated before my GF, who is a Thai FDA testing lab manager?

[wensiensheng]

9 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Chiang Mai hospital reports 7 new cases after patients lied about being infected. A hospital in the northern province of Chiang Mai has reported a new cluster of Covid-19 after 3 patients lied about being infected. The Central Chiang.

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/chiang-mai/chiang-mai-hospital-reports-7-new-cases-after-patients-lied-about-being-infected

Weird. How can you lie about being infected? You can lie about your movements and potential exposure, but you don’t know you’re infected until you’ve been tested. And once tested, if positive, you’re thrown in a field hospital.

[bunnydrops]

38 minutes ago, WineOh said:

No man ever lay on his deathbed and said "God! I wish I'd never slept with so many women".

 

i love this mate ^^^^^^^^

Maybe. unless he is laying there because his wife found out.

[Surelynot]

34 minutes ago, Trujillo said:

So sorry to state the obvious, but things are looking good, yes? So why the panic? 

...................you sound like a look-out on the Titanic who has lost his binoculars.

Edited May 13, 2021 by Surelynot

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

It’s a very very high positivity rate

So were those prior cases as of May 5th disclosed and are they in the stats now or are they still being hidden.  Oops if they tried to keep them hidden.  Just makes the truthfulness they are supposedly telling folks which needs to be taken with a grain of salt and questioned even more.

[Excel]

3 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

May I ask the "experts" who 2 weeks ago claimed that the peak of the wave was already behind us... for their scientific comment on the current numbers.

 

Thank you.

The woodwork must be overflowing because that is where they have crawled back to ????

[anchadian]

https://twitter.com/SaksithCNA/status/1392715379118526464

 

Official #COVID19 update in #Thailand on Thursday: Since Jan 2020 93,794 people infected (+16 imported cases & +4,887 local cases)

518 dead +32 (0.55%)

32,661 in care

1,209 in serious condition - 406 of them in ventilators)

1,572 discharged from care

 

[WineOh]

2 minutes ago, bunnydrops said:

Maybe. unless he is laying there because his wife found out.

then he was a complete amateur and deserved everything he got ???? 

[adam1]

3 hours 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????

I've been hearing this for over a year now...  still hasn't happened.