Today’s figures look bad but include 1,498 prisoners. The general population figure is 1,896
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Today’s figures look bad but include 1,498 prisoners. The general population figure is 1,896
"Today’s figures look bad..."
Today's figures look terrible. Over half the active membership now has you on ignore. So basically you're posting for Matt.
Ah, Q - there you are.
Whatever’s happening to your little band of conspiracy theorists? You and Dodgems "identified" Plantagenet as another hydra (in complete contradiction to Moses' express instructions) whereas goji continued to have intercourse with him briefly.
I do congratulate you on your ability to muddy the waters by introducing argosy as a member of the hydra. Some Forum members will recall that argosy enjoyed a brief existence while you were once banned, and espoused identical views to your own. However that's our dirty little secret - your fellow Book Burners will never know as they've blocked me and they, as honourable men will never, ever peek at what I post. Dodgems, francois, goji, Patanawet - all honourable men.
Thailand recorded 2,636 new cases of COVID-19 including 671 cases reported in prisons and 1,965 in the general population. Phuket recorded no new cases earlier this week.
While we're waiting for today’s COVID stats, here's the 24 hour road accident report for 20/5/2021: 40 deaths and 2,143 injuries. Deaths include one child. TOTAL FOR 2021: 6,012 deaths and 386,621 injuries
As for COVID there have been 703 deaths IN TOTAL and approximately 120,000 cases (that's from January 2020)
Phuket recorded a handful of cases but the government is steaming ahead with plans to open the Sandbox on 1 July (roughly the Biblical 40 days and 40 nights away)
Today's total is 32 deaths and a total 3,481 cases. This number include 951 prisoners, so the number in the general population is 2,530 - not a great result but unfortunately a steady one. 2,839 is the highest point in the current wave (on April 24, right after Songkran)
On the bright side, Laos is doing good... 14 two days ago, 12 cases yesterday. See what today brings.
On the bad side, no chance Laos is opening it's borders until Thailand does, and I still think Thailand's re-opening schedule is a pipe dream.
There was a total of 3,052 new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total tally to 126,118. Today's new cases include 605 cases recorded in prisons and 2,447 recorded elsewhere in Thailand
I’m not sure if the “elsewhere in Thailand” figure includes the 1,000 found in a single construction camp
3,382 new infections including 460 from prisons. Construction sites seem to be the new epicentre
So they beat their previous record of I think it was 2800 in one day. Damn...
Laos is still doing good, and keeping it under 20/day.
I’ve always thought the numbers themselves of little consequence - statistical sampling to indicate the trend rather than any semblance of the actual cases. Thailand often charges 3,000 baht for a test and has little or no contact tracing so these figures have no precision to them at all.
Well, if Worldometer stats are correct, Thailand is doing 116k tests per-million population. Definitely lower than developed countries out there, but not horrendously bad either. For example, Canada is at 850k tests per-million, US a little over a million, UK over 2 million though.
I have a sometime friend in Hua Hin whose 57 year old father was showing symptoms a couple of months ago. Even though he had been out of work for some time, the hospital only provided a test with an advance payment of 1,000 baht. I wrongly assumed it would be free for Thais. He was called the next day and told he was positive. He would need to travel by ambulance to the hospital for which his son had to find 700 baht. After six days in hospital he died. The son was left with hospital and funeral costs. He was also told he should be tested and that would also cost 1,000 baht!
I have no idea if this is regular practice. If so, there is a lot wrong with the covid procedures.
Thailand recorded 2,713 new cases of COVID-19 with 30 new deaths on Monday. Today's new cases include 206 cases reported in prisons and 2,507 in the general population.
Here’s an example of the clusters that Thailand is experiencing - 2,000 in a single factory. There was a report of 1,000 at a single construction site the other day:
https://thethaiger.com/news/national...tal-on-the-way
There's total of 3,226 new cases of COVID-19: 882 cases in prisons and 2,344 in the general population
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Of the 33 currently active clusters in Bangkok, 12 have been found in construction-worker camps, nine around markets and shopping centres, seven in crowded communities, four at businesses and one at care homes.
Source @ThaiEnquirer on Twitter
AstraZenica shortage could cause delays in second dosage according to the article below...(believe at your own risk).
https://pattayaone.news/astrazeneca-...he-first-dose/
With one dose of AstraZenica rendering only 33% effectiveness. It's starting to look like the small percentage of Thais who do actually get a vaccine (any vaccine) this year, will only have minimal protection.
Those receiving two doses of Sinovac will have somewhere around 50% protection (maybe).
The only golden lining in this story for us expats is to wait for Moderna or Sputnic to get here.
Not sure what Thailand's arrangements with Moderna are, but I know here in Canada they've just (once again) announced reduced shipments.
Plus it came out here that you're not supposed to mix Moderna and Pfizer, so that sucks because everyone I know myself included has one shot of Moderna. Hopefully we can manage to get a second.
I suspect pretty much all the vaccine manufacturers were issuing supply forecasts based solely on a “best case scenario” - a very courageous assumption as it turns out.
I know this is going to sound like a very stupid question at this juncture, but I never knew if two different vaccines could be taken by the same person or not?
I can see it now:
A guy walks into a hospital and asks the nurse "what do you have in stock"? She says "only one shot of Moderna left, we're out of Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, but still have a small supply of Sinovac and Sputnik on hand...which do you want"? And the guy replies; "Give me a shot of Moderna and a Sputnik chaser". Two days later he's dead...LOL
I hope this is not a premonition of the not too distant future.
A total of 2,455 new confirmed cases were recorded in the past 24 hours including 479 cases in prisons
A total of 3,323 new cases were reported over the past 24 hours including 1,219 cases reported in prisons.
Today's headline figure looks horrendous - 3,759 new cases of COVID-19. However, today's new cases are 2,465 recorded in the general population and 1,294 cases recorded in prisons. The general population figure is the third highest in the past 7 days
Another horror headline figure - 4,803 new cases overall - but, digging deeper, the new cases include 2,101 in the general population and 2,702 prisoners. The daily average for the general population for all of May is 2150.
And we have Laos clocking in at.... wait for it... 3 cases today.
Thumbs up to Laos, they seem to actually be getting it under control. See what happens when more of the lockdown is lifted on June 4th.
Good question.
1 A Spanish trial shows what I understand is BETTER results from mixing vaccines. In Spanish, but Chrome translates it. https://www.isciii.es/Noticias/Notic...CombivacS.aspx
2 The UK government is organizing trials on various combinations of vaccines. The sample size is surprisingly small @ 1050 people. As I thought one of each would be a very good idea, I looked into signing up last month, but as with previous trials, I live outside the catchment area. https://comcovstudy.org.uk/about-com-cov2
3 It's common to mix non-covid vaccines. Get a flu jab one year and no one asks what flu jab you had the previous year. Or go for some travel vaccines and you usually are offered all at the same time, even if it's "very nearly an armful" (quote borrowed).
Nope, I believe it. FOr a while there Laos was getting over 100 cases per-day, then it kept dropping, was around 50 per-day for a bit, down to ~20 per-day, and I just seen that 3 number so thought I would post it.
I'm quite a bit more emotionally invested in Laos, so keep track of it closely.
I believe it, because when Laos says lockdown, it's not a mere suggestion. It's not like Canada where a "lockdown" means the head doctor of the government comes on TV and asks, "please stay at home". In Laos police get stationed every where and you are not going where you're not supposed to.
My guy went to his village for Songkran, then the outbreak hit, and he's been stuck there since, lol. He's not really allowed to leave the village, so there he sits bored unable to even look for work.
Thailand recorded 4,528 new cases of COVID-19 including 1,902 cases in prisons and 2,626 in the general population
Indeed. But, far from seeing a downward trend as hoped for in the past few weeks, the figures throughout May have remained stubbornly around +/-2,000/day. If anything, there has been an increasing trend, but nothing nearly as steep, and certainly not the exponential increase that has been seen in many other countries.
By comparison, just down the road in Malaysia they have been recording figures of 3,000~6,000 per day and yesterday recorded a record high at 9,000. And, for goji's interest, the population of Malaysia is 32.6m compared to Thailand's 69.9m
All I see today is 5,485 cases. How many general, and how many prisoners?
What I find surprising is that Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam were all held up as virtual role models last year of how to contain the virus. Now all three countries are battling major outbreaks. A friend in Danang just told me that his city is yet again locked down. I realise that Prayut overruled his medical team by allowing Songkran to go ahead and have millions of people wandering around the country spreading the virus. Yet why on earth would he agree to that in the knowledge that the practical and medical costs would just keep rising way beyond any political advantage when they could have been far better controlled with the country perhaps opening earlier?
Taiwan is in a much better situation but again political leadership seems to have overruled the medical experts. With the island shut off from the world for most of last year, it takes the insane decision that the quarantine period for airline pilots who are in and out of the country on a regular basis could be reduced from 14 days to 7 days, then 5 days and finally 3 days. Of course they had to be quarantined in the airport hotel, but the control was so lax, two EVA airlines pilots got out of the hotel for a night on the town with their girlfriends. These guys were fired and fined $10,000. Now China Airlines is shut down for two weeks because its on board staff also brought back the virus. And now the entire island is locked down with the population experiencing for the first time what most of the world experienced last year.
How is it that those who make such decisions are so idiotic?
That’s what being human means. India is a clusterfuck because having got their pandemic under control the prime minister decided to hold huge election rallies. In Malaysia it was the breaking of the daily fast during Ramadan. In Chile apparently it was “vaccination will solve all our problems” so they opened up in anticipation. People are stupid - get over it.