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Thailand on Saturday (May 15) reported 3,095 new COVID-19 cases, and 17 additional deaths over the last 24 hours.

 

● 2,218 new infections

● 877 prison / prison infections

 

Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 99,145 with 565 deaths.

 

The news comes as Buriram becomes first Thai province to penalize refusal for COVID-19 vaccine.

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Just now, webfact said:

The news comes as Buriram becomes first Thai province to penalize refusal for COVID-19 vaccine

The numbers keep on moving forward as well as the double digit deaths. Let's see what the weekend brings in cases and Buriram arrests or fines.  I am sure this will make the worldwide ???? news soon.

[FarFlungFalang]

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The numbers keep on moving forward as well as the double digit deaths. Let's see what the weekend brings in cases and Buriram arrests or fines.  I am sure this will make the worldwide ???? news soon.

So do you think this news will go VIRAL?I do and eagerly await the triple pike on dismount.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Spurred by the burst of 877 new prison cases, Saturday's 3,095 total new COVID cases reported by the government becomes Thailand's second largest daily new case total ever.

 

The only larger total was Thursday's 4,887 tally, of which 2,835 was a previously unreported accumulation of 2,835 prison cases, and 2,052 general population cases.

 

Without Saturday's added prison cases, the other 2,218 new general population COVID cases marked the third straight day of 2,000 plus case tallies, after three consecutive days of sub 2,000 case totals.

 

However, Saturday's 17 new COVID deaths was Thailand's lowest number in six days, and followed four consecutive days of 30-plus daily death counts.

 

Based on Saturday's new cases and the now 99,145 cumulative cases total, Thailand is destined tomorrow to pass the 100,000 total COVID cases milestone since the start of the pandemic in early 2020.

 

For the latest day, total COVID hospitalizations rose markedly to 34,913 in part because of all the new prison cases. The share of total COVID patients hospitalized in critical condition rose slightly from 1,203 to 1,234.  The share of those requiring ventilators to breathe also rose slightly from 408 to 415. Both figures are record levels for Thailand since the pandemic began.

 

 

 

The chart below indicates Thailand reported 1,351 COVID patients released as recovered from various kinds of hospital facilities, a figure dwarfed by Saturday's total new case tally and the general population subtotal only. That means the total population of hospitalized COVID patients in Thailand has increased again, from 33,186 on Friday to 34,913 today.

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Charts below show the rolling seven-day averages of Thailand's daily COVID cases and COVID deaths since the start of April updated through May 13, which for the first time capture the burst of accumulated prison cases reported Thursday. The rolling seven-day average figures are a common measurement used by health official to judge how their coronavirus outbreaks are faring.

 

The latest figures show the added prison cases from Thursday boosting Thailand's seven-day average of new cases to a record 2,426 level. Likewise, the recent spate of 30-plus daily death totals also has pushed Thailand's rolling seven-day COVID deaths average to a record 26.

 

 

 

 

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

 

[Bkk Brian]

They must have had a spare 200 test kits lying around to bring the community spread up to 2,218.

[FarFlungFalang]

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

They must have had a spare 200 test kits lying around to bring the community spread up to 2,218.

Either that or they are feeding previously unreleased cases as they now have form for doing that.

[dinsdale]

This should take Thailand to 92 on the covid worldomter. 100,000+ infections tomorrow.  This is all down to one person. The one who should have enforced a hard lockdown nation wide for 7-10 days after the Thong Lor outbreak raised it's ugly virus spreading head and allowing Songkran travel to proceed and tell the nation and the world "Whatever will be will be." Guess the "it's stabalising at 2000 a day" crowd may have to change to "it's stabalising at 3000 a day".

Edited May 15, 2021 by dinsdale

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Southeast Asia Kept COVID-19 Under Control For Most of the Pandemic.

Now It's Battling Worrying New Surges

 

At Thammasat University Hospital, about 20 miles north of Bangkok, doctors are scrambling to treat COVID-19 patients streaming in. Nearby, extra beds have been crammed in to a student dormitory block, turning it into a field hospital that can accommodate an additional 470 patients.

 

“We don’t have enough beds, we don’t have enough ventilators,” Anucha Apisarnthanarak, the chief of the infectious diseases division at the hospital, tells TIME. “This is only my hospital, but of course there are a lot more hospitals experiencing the same problem.”

 

In Jan. 2020, Thailand became the first country outside of China to confirm a case of the disease that became known as COVID-19—but it successfully fought off the pandemic for most of the year, recording less than 5,000 cases in a population of 70 million by mid-December. Now the total has skyrocketed 18-fold to more than 90,000 cases as this onetime COVID success story battles a worrying new surge.

 

(more)

 

https://time.com/6046172/southeast-asia-covid/

 

[Swimfan]

They now have over 36k in hospital. Field hospital and hosphotel or whatever it is called. There is no way this model will be sustainable if the number continues to rise. The overall cost and potential for significant numbers of medical personnel to become infected therefore potentially seriously affecting staffing levels and the systems ability to cope with critical cases. 
it’s a disaster waiting to happen. 

[anchadian]

 

Read more:

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40000896

 

62 provinces get orders to prepare vaccination centres

 

The Interior Ministry on Friday told provincial governors and chambers of commerce in 62 provinces to prepare 322 locations in their areas for vaccinating people against Covid-19.

[anchadian]

 

Read more:

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40000897

 

GPO procures 5.5 million Favipiravir tablets to cope with rising infections

 

The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has procured 5.5 million tablets of Favipiravir for treatment of Covid-19 patients after a new wave reported in Thailand since late March has quickly spread to several provinces.

[dinsdale]

4 minutes ago, Swimfan said:

They now have over 36k in hospital. Field hospital and hosphotel or whatever it is called. There is no way this model will be sustainable if the number continues to rise. The overall cost and potential for significant numbers of medical personnel to become infected therefore potentially seriously affecting staffing levels and the systems ability to cope with critical cases. 
it’s a disaster waiting to happen. 

I agree except for your final sentence. The disaster is in progress.

[wasabi]

Might as well create a field hospital for all of Thailand at this point. 70 million cardboard beds while our glorious leader Prayut leads us into the abyss.

Edited May 15, 2021 by wasabi

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, wasabi said:

Might as well create a field hospital for all of Thailand at this point. 70 million cardboard beds while our glorious leader Prayut leads us into the abyss.

The abyss seems to he bigger than the Marianas Trench.....

[dinsdale]

42 minutes ago, FarFlungFalang said:

Either that or they are feeding previously unreleased cases as they now have form for doing that.

It would be interesting to know exactly where these prisoner numbers are coming from. How many prisons? Is it prisons nation wide? One this is for sure the numbers must be higher than what they're giving. I think it's fair to assume that this is the Brit variant which as we know spreads like wildfire. In the (I said another word here that got deleted so I'll try again). In the (very bad) inhuman prisons they have here it would only take a day or two before the entire prisoner population becomes infected. 

Edited May 15, 2021 by dinsdale

[FarFlungFalang]

5 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

The abyss seems to he bigger than the Marianas Trench.....

If that's the case it would be "Abysmal".

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Vaccinations update through yesterday:

 

The chart below shows nearly 2.5 million total vaccine doses allocated for use thus far, with more than 2.2 million doses administered, including new vaccinations from yesterday reaching 93,688 doses, and then the subtotals by first and second dose shots.

 

The results below mean Thailand has fully vaccinated about 1 percent of its 70 million population thus far, and has given first dose shots to about 2 percent of its population, with a long way to go to reach its 50 million fully vaccinated goal by the end of the year.

 

 

 

The chart below shows the total vaccine doses allocated for use by the government thus far, including the breakdown of Sinovac versus AstraZeneca doses.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/thaimoph/posts/30890377071953

 

 

Edited May 15, 2021 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[anchadian]

Read more:

https://thepattayanews.com/2021/05/15/covid-19-cases-in-chonburi-plummets-to-33-new-and-confirmed-cases-lowest-in-over-a-month/

 

Covid-19 cases in Chonburi plummets to 33 new and confirmed cases, lowest in over a month

 

 

The Chonburi Department of Public Health announced 33 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 this morning (May 15th), the lowest since April 7th, 2021.

 

This makes a total of 3,644 cases of Covid-19 in the current round of infections, with 1,259 still in medical care, with a total of thirteen recorded deaths in Chonburi since the start of this recent round of infections in early April. Two additional deaths were sadly recorded in the past 24 hours.

 

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

23 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

It would be interesting to know exactly where these prisoner numbers are coming from. How many prisons? Is it prisons nation wide? One this is for sure the numbers must be higher than what they're giving. I think it's fair to assume that this is the Brit variant which as we know spreads like wildfire. In the (I said another word here that got deleted so I'll try again). In the (very bad) inhuman prisons they have here it would only take a day or two before the entire prisoner population becomes infected. 

 

 

Mostly but not entirely from Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok:

 

From last night:

"The Department of Corrections says 506 inmates and 2 wardens at Klong Prem Central Prison tested positive for COVID-19. The prison is located within the same perimeter as the Bangkok Remand Prison, where a cluster of infections came to light earlier this week."

 

https://www.facebook.com/KhaosodEnglish/posts/4318915864793979

 

 

 

[anchadian]

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/opinion/2021/05/15/opinion-thailands-sinovac-dilemma/

 

OPINION: THAILAND’S SINOVAC DILEMMA

 

The government of Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha is facing double challenges in handling COVID-19. First, how to get enough vaccines in time before the situation is too critical, and second, how to convince enough people that Sinovac is a good and adequately safe vaccine.

 

Yes, Sinovac (known formally as CoronaVac) is the Chinese vaccine which has yet to have been approved by the World Health Organization!

 

Like it or not, the Thai government by the end of this month will have in its possession six million doses of Sinovac vaccines. The biggest lot, AstraZeneca, projected at 61 million doses by the end of the year is currently reserved for those 60 and older only.

[anchadian]

Read more:

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/caring-for-your-mental-health-during-the-global-pandemic/

 

Caring for your mental health during the Global Pandemic

 

The 3rd wave of the COVID-19 outbreak is pushing many people to their limit, financially and psychologically. It is even worse for people who have a preexisting mental condition.

 

The 2020 suicide rates in Thailand went up to 7.3 per hundred thousand of the population, with three main factors involved; personal relationships, chronic mental or physical illness and financial stress, according to Dr. Pornpimol Wipulakorn, Director of The Department of Mental Health.

 

 

[cyril sneer]

I hope I don't go to prison for refusing the vaccine

[Excel]

40 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

It would be interesting to know exactly where these prisoner numbers are coming from. How many prisons? Is it prisons nation wide? One this is for sure the numbers must be higher than what they're giving. I think it's fair to assume that this is the Brit variant which as we know spreads like wildfire. In the (I said another word here that got deleted so I'll try again). In the (very bad) inhuman prisons they have here it would only take a day or two before the entire prisoner population becomes infected. 

And if the Indian variant  takes hold, if it has not already, and accelerates, then it will become a national catastrophe. The Czar whilst getting most of the blame currently is, don't forget, supported and maintained in that role by others whom also should be held equally responsible.

Edited May 15, 2021 by Excel

[Neal182]

39 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

It would be interesting to know exactly where these prisoner numbers are coming from. How many prisons? Is it prisons nation wide? One this is for sure the numbers must be higher than what they're giving. I think it's fair to assume that this is the Brit variant which as we know spreads like wildfire. In the (I said another word here that got deleted so I'll try again). In the (very bad) inhuman prisons they have here it would only take a day or two before the entire prisoner population becomes infected. 

I read one prison seperate from the previous two had 500+. Not sure about the extra 300+.

[Ron jeremy]

1 hour ago, Swimfan said:

They now have over 36k in hospital. Field hospital and hosphotel or whatever it is called. There is no way this model will be sustainable if the number continues to rise. The overall cost and potential for significant numbers of medical personnel to become infected therefore potentially seriously affecting staffing levels and the systems ability to cope with critical cases. 
it’s a disaster waiting to happen. 

World class retirement destination with world class health care????

welcome to banana land!

[dinsdale]

3 minutes ago, Excel said:

And if the Indian variant  takes hold, if it has not already, and accelerates, then it will become a national catastrophe. The Czar whilst getting most of the blame currently is, don't forget, supported and maintained in that role by others whom also should be held equally responsible.

The buck stops at the top.

 

[clivebaxter]

7 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

I hope I don't go to prison for refusing the vaccine

 

You won't be offered it for months yet!

[Excel]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

The buck stops at the top.

 

That's why I and many others are currently relying on Karma !!

[AlfHuy]

What's about the HI-SO DJ would was in prison a few months ago? He had Covid but didn't infect anyone?

 

What's about all prison staff: Director, warden, chef, cleaners etc. 

What's about all visitors?

Have they all been checked?

Most of them went home and are in touch with family and friends/neigbours.

 

The British guy who was send to prison last week. He surely got a visit from his Embassy.

Is now the British Embassy also on full quarantine?