1,630 today - a significant fall. It’s the lowest daily figure this month.
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...
It might be worth mentioning that the Lao capital’s population is half that of Chiang Mai or maybe two or three times that of Pattaya, so that percentages or rates per thousand give a more meaningful comparison. Raw numbers mean nothing.Originally Posted by cdnmatt
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.
Human beings are fallible? Who knew?!
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