1,630 today - a significant fall. It’s the lowest daily figure this month.
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1,630 today - a significant fall. It’s the lowest daily figure this month.
While I disagree that posts on the topic of Australia's travel bans belong in this thread on COVID in Thailand, nevertheless here's a contribution from an Australian source underlining, so it seems, that this is a political not a medical decision
https://www.theguardian.com/australi...th-experts-say
1,919 today so the 2,000 daily average seems a fair bet, although with larger fluctuations than previously
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Still seems like Laos has a chance of containment. Only 35 today, I think it was 28 yesterday.
They had a few days of over 100 though, so time will tell...
In news just in, Dodgems’ magnanimous effort of staying at home and self-isolating is paying off with the lowest number of new cases in a month reported by the Chonburi Public Health Office. Keep it up, Dodgems.
1,983 is today’s number - not great but not bad, still around the 2,000 per day average
The headline figure today looks dreadful - 4,887 - but represents the Thai authorities finally admitting there’s a COVID problem in their prisons. Who’d have thought it?! There are 2,835 total infections in prison and they didn’t all catch it on the same day but the figure is lumped in with today’s. I’ve recorded the civilian figures only - 2,052 - again around that 2,000 average figure.
Are the Thai figures reliable? Almost certainly not - only a few thousand are being tested daily and most if not all have to pay 3,000 baht for the “privilege”. That’s why I look at the trends rather than the figures and the trend is flat. No signs of a fall yet.
The Thai authorities have really dropped the ball big time after their excellent actions for most of last year. The Samut Sakhon fish market outbreak in December was a large cluster waiting to happen. Successive Thai governments had said they would solve the problem of illegal Burmese labourers but no doubt because of the big money men and politicians' cronies controlling the business nothing was done. But someone should at least have been testing all the workers. Still, Singapore failed to pay any attention to its immigrant worker dormitories and suffered hugely as a result.
Prisons are another prime testing area, but who in the Thai government cares about prisoners? Have airport workers been tested yet, I wonder? Singapore has again been caught unawares with a cluster at Changi airport forcing the closure of three terminals. Taiwan which had such a great record last year has now grounded China Airlines for two weeks following cases being found among flight crew arriving from overseas destinations. Why were they not among the first to be vaccinated? The mind boggles.
From today's B.P. :
Indonesia is about to announce a glowing report on Sinovac vaccine based on a study on 128,000 health workers.
"They probably were vaccinated.... with the Chinese junk that doesn't work."
"On what do you base that statement?"
On this perhaps.
"yes-yes... "doesn't work"... sure... That why it is 65000+ sick per million of population in UK and only 63 per million in China... yes, 63, not 63000 - only 63..."
Moses. Please. Stop comparing China to other countries. You're simply missing the point. China can control it's citizens in a way that no western govt can. Nothing to do with vaccination and everything to do with controlling it from the very start. When I arrived back I was policed from the airport to my apartment and then for the next 14 days. Wuhan and the surrounding area was entirely closed for 40 days and the actual death toll will never be known. The Chinese people are very aware of the limitations of theit vaccination so there are no long queues to get it. Life here is pretty normal but not due to vaccination, it's because the Chinese govt was able to act quite ruthlessly within a very short period of the outbreak.
On the clinical trials that peg it at ~50.3% efficacy, UAE still can't get Covid under control after having ~65% of its population vaccinated with it, Sechelles is currently under lockdown orders after having ~70% of its population vaccinated with it, et al.
No idea why you'd post an image asking for my thoughts on it though... no idea...
I missing nothing. I directly show to "some too much proud people" what their "developed civilization" worth zero against virus, what their cries "only US vaccines" worth zero... we see what "dictatorship" is 100 times effective in saving lives, what "freedom" is antagonist of effective fight with pandemic event we have now...
Once again: zero. And when drama-queens starting to cry "Ah Chinese!!!" it is right time to take a look on results what China has right now in fight with virus: 65000/63 West lost, China won.
I am "trying" nothing. "Trying" isn't result - it is process. I'm pointing to result of China. China won fight with virus. West lost. At least for now. Rest is just blabla-bla.
And, Matt, I spend in total over 3 year in China, have a lot of Chinese friends and for sure I have idea what means "dictatorship" in China in real life, not only from propaganda of CNN and other "bbc" what have now to explain to own nations why Western governments looks like deep losers at time when China looks like total winner.
Moses wrote.
"I missing nothing. I directly show to "some too much proud people" what their "developed civilization" worth zero against virus, what their cries "only US vaccines" worth zero... we see what "dictatorship" is 100 times effective in saving lives, what "freedom" is antagonist of effective fight with pandemic event we have now...
Once again: zero. And when drama-queens starting to cry "Ah Chinese!!!" it is right time to take a look on results what China has right now in fight with virus: 65000/63 West lost, China won."
Won what? No country wants to dine as equals* at the top table as China does and no country is further away from that than China is right now.
* Bringing not just money but respect, welcomed, a touch of class, a smile perhaps...you wouldn't understand. Your hatred of the West is mirrored in The Kremlin.
The daily reports in the media are now broken down into “general population” and “prisoners”. The general figure is still slightly above the 2,000 average at 2,073 with prisoners at 183
Good news for Laos today though, only 16 cases.
They're hoping to be out of lockdown on the 20th, but time will tell depending on case numbers.
The daily numbers are rising (slightly) again and the numbers now include prisoners, previously unreported. Today’s total is 3,095 of which 877 are prisoners. The general population number is therefore 2,218.
This week’s Economist has an article on the increasing numbers in the SE Asian region including an incredible anecdote about the latest outbreak in Cambodia. The article blames “festivals, foreigners and fornication” as largely responsible. I’d add “complacency”. The article can be read for free by registering your email address:
https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/...outh-east-asia
Looking at the history of the pandemic in countries like Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan, it seems more than clear that the devil has been complacency vastly more than the three 'Fs'.
Today’s figure is 2,302. I’m still checking whether this includes the hundreds being found daily in the prison system.
The prisoner figures from yesterday - 1,219 - will be included in tomorrow’s numbers
... just waiting for that complacency and explosion of cases to hit.
I don't know, just an all around shitty situation. Hopefully this time next year global manufacturing of vaccines will be at a level that we can finally put down this problem altogether. That's the only thing that will get us out of this mess, but it has to be on a global scale.
Like I seen in a news report while they were giving an interview to a doctor in Kenya earlier today... it's a global village, either we're all safe, or none of us are.
What I fear is that as developed nations get the pandemic under control, they will seemingly and conviently forget about it while it ravages other parts of the world.
I REALLY hope this doesn't happen, and the foot stays on the gas until the world has this Covid issue solved, because that's the only way we're getting out of it. I hope governments across the world are smart enough to realize that, and don't take their foot off the gas to divert resources into their local economies instead of the pandemic.
A much higher figure today including thousands of prisoners - 9,635 - with 2,782 in the general population
6 weeks, and opening for tourism, baby!
If today's figures for the general population suggest signal rather than mere noise then there's some encouragement (one swallow doesn’t make a boyfriend) - the recent peak although close is (just) lower than the early May figure. Today it's 1,797 in the general population with a further 680 prisoners for a total of 2,473
By way of perspective (and a figure to gladden goji’s heart) 2,421 were injured on the roads yesterday - pretty much the daily average all year, every day.
Out of the 5,893 people that have died in road accidents this year so far, 80% were motorcyclists. The biggest age group is 36-60 years at 36%. For injuries, the biggest age group is the same but children under 15 accounted for 25% of all injuries