Today’s total is 3,174 with only 36 in prison. The daily blips (such as yesterday’s) appear to coincide with reports of new clusters inside factories when every worker gets tested. Given that all positive cases are sent to hospital it’s no surprise to read that Bangkok is running out of hospital beds.
Back up to almost 4,000 today - 3,879 plus 229 prisoners.
Phuket recorded 2; it needs to exceed 70 in 7 days to threaten the Sandbox project.
With the UK “Opening” being postponed for a month (at least) following rapidly rising figures ....11,000+ on Tuesday and 16,000+ on Wednesday...I can’t see many tourists arriving from the UK.Originally Posted by StevieWonders
One reason (of many) why the COVID statistics are unreliable:
Multiple hospitals in the Bangkok area have stopped doing PCR swab tests for Covid-19. Their rationale is that if some test comes back positive, there won’t be beds for the patients. Other hospitals have “scaled down” the swab tests because their staff is too busy, says Dr Suppachok Kirdlarp.
Dr Thiravat Hemachudha, head of the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre, says that Chulalongkorn Hospital has stopped doing Covid swab tests for 4 days starting today. Dr Thiravat cites the lack of beds for potentially infected people.
https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/m...suficient-beds
Today’s case number is 3,644 cases with 162 from prisons.
More stories emerge on Bangkok’s shortage of hospital beds - https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2138707
4,161 cases today with 72 from prisons.
So they've slowed testing, and cases are still going up? That's not good.
Today's general population figure is 3.950 with a further 45 in prison. Given that some hospitals are no longer testing as they have no beds available for those whose result is positive, these figures are even less reliable. Those beyond the pale have difficulties in getting tested and vaccinated -
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand...ants-need-help
A bad number today - a 25% jump in 24 hours - 5,406 cases with only 9 from prisons.
Why anyone in the hospitality sector - yes, Silom 4, I mean you - could imagine that with even last week’s worsening figures that booze would be allowed suggests a loose connection with reality. Only a week or so ago the government had said there would be no booze because in their view it encouraged relaxed behaviour and breaking of social distancing behaviour.
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