Covid-19 News & Updates

[Big Boy]

Today's Brief:

[PeteC]

57 Covid deaths, 5,420 new cases reported Tuesday

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... ed-tuesday

[PeteC]

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Official COVID-19 update in Thailand on Wednesday
* 301,172 people infected (+6,519)
* 203,745 discharged from hospital (+4,148)
* 67,614 in hospital
* 2,387 deaths (+54)
Imported cases - 16
Domestic cases - 4,958
Proactive case finding in communities - 1,490
Cases found in correctional facilities - 55
Number of people who received vaccines:
1st dose: + 223,268
2nd dose: + 46,385
Total: 11,328,043

2,496 (+146) patients are in critical condition, with 676 (+33) of them on ventilators.

[joelle]

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Wednesday 7th July
FB link for reference: https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld

[Big Boy]

Today's Brief:

[PeteC]

54 Covid deaths, 6,519 new cases

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -new-cases

[PeteC]

My usual disease bad news reporting will be late today, sometime near or after 1500 hours.

Preliminary numbers are: Record 75 Covid deaths, 7,058 new cases

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... -new-cases

....and a lockdown is now a strong possibility: Lockdown in sight

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... n-in-sight

[PeteC]

New terminal at Suvarnabhumi Airport to be field hospital

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/new- ... d-hospital

A new plan will have Bangkok residents heading to the airport, but not in a good way, as authorities have decided to convert Suvarnabhumi Airport’s new terminal into a field hospital. The recently built Satellite 1 facilities are large enough to house a minimum of 5,000 beds for Covid-19 infected patients as outbreaks surge in the capital city.

With 216,000 square metres of available space spread over 4 stories, the terminal will get far more mileage as a healthcare facility than it will as an airport with Thailand’s vastly reduced flights schedules due to closed borders. Thailand’s Transport Minister has confirmed plans to convert the airport terminal to a field hospital next month.

The terminal complex was approved in 2011 for 62 billion baht and will postpone its official opening until April of next year. The airport authority says the Covid-19 pandemic slowed the importing of materials. But the terminal is finished enough to serve as hospital housing for mild to severe Covid-19 patients.

The ground floor is spacious enough to house at least 5,000 beds for Covid-19 infected people dealing with symptoms. The second floor will be converted to an intensive care unit to treat the most severe cases. The top two floors will be utilized to house people infected with the Covid-19 virus but are either asymptomatic or experiencing only mild afflictions.......

[buksida]

For those that religiously believe all those pretty graphics and what the junta tells you ...

Thailand may have infection numbers “3-4 times higher” than government-declared total
Experts say that Thailand may have Covid-19 infection numbers 3-4 times higher than the total number declared by the government per day, according to insiders within the healthcare sector.

According to a doctor at the Bangkok Dusit Medical Services group, experts at the Private Hospitals Association meeting on Wednesday suggested that the real number of Covid-19 infections could be much higher than that being declared by the government.

“We have no idea what the total number is but it could literally be 3 to 4 times higher than what is being declared based on the statistics we have gathered at our hospitals,” the doctor said on condition of anonymity.

“The reason we don’t know is because private hospitals don’t have the capacity or the mandate to do widespread testing, we can only test people that come to our hospitals,” said the doctor who asked not to be named. “In April, we had infection rates around 10 per cent of people that were tested. Now it is much closer to 20 per cent.”

Thailand’s government said that the country saw 6,464 new covid infections in the general public on Wednesday.

“We do not know for sure what the actual number is we can only judge it by the rate of infections and by the numbers we see that come to get tested at the hospital,” said Dr Suwadee Puntpanich, a director at Thonburi Bamrungmuang Hospital which is part of the Thonburi Healthcare Group.

https://www.thaienquirer.com/29512/thai ... red-total/

[hhinner]

Who religiously believes the pretty graphics? I think most countries have the pretty graphics but don't know the true extent of infections. However the graphics, if religiously followed over a period, can show how infection trends are moving. And are likely more accurate about serious infections than mild or asymptomatic ones.

[sateeb]

For those that religiously believe all those pretty graphics and what the junta tells you ...

Thailand may have infection numbers “3-4 times higher” than government-declared total
Experts say that Thailand may have Covid-19 infection numbers 3-4 times higher than the total number declared by the government per day, according to insiders within the healthcare sector.

According to a doctor at the Bangkok Dusit Medical Services group, experts at the Private Hospitals Association meeting on Wednesday suggested that the real number of Covid-19 infections could be much higher than that being declared by the government.

“We have no idea what the total number is but it could literally be 3 to 4 times higher than what is being declared based on the statistics we have gathered at our hospitals,” the doctor said on condition of anonymity.

“The reason we don’t know is because private hospitals don’t have the capacity or the mandate to do widespread testing, we can only test people that come to our hospitals,” said the doctor who asked not to be named. “In April, we had infection rates around 10 per cent of people that were tested. Now it is much closer to 20 per cent.”

Thailand’s government said that the country saw 6,464 new covid infections in the general public on Wednesday.

“We do not know for sure what the actual number is we can only judge it by the rate of infections and by the numbers we see that come to get tested at the hospital,” said Dr Suwadee Puntpanich, a director at Thonburi Bamrungmuang Hospital which is part of the Thonburi Healthcare Group.

https://www.thaienquirer.com/29512/thai ... red-total/

Speculation by an anonymous doctor

I don't think anyone believes the buffalo poo being excreted by the politicians so no need for smartass comments please.

[buksida]

I don't think anyone believes the buffalo poo being excreted by the politicians so no need for smartass comments please.

And yours are becoming quite frequent again ...

[sateeb]

The Juan Kerr emoji is oh so very mutual so unless you want the last word as usual lets get back to topic eh.

[PeteC]

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Official COVID-19 update in Thailand on Thursday
* 308,230 people infected (+7,058)
* 236,149 discharged from hospital (+4,978)
* 69,619 in hospital
* 2,462 deaths (+75)
Imported cases - 9
Domestic cases - 5,249
Proactive case finding in communities - 1,732
Cases found in correctional facilities - 68
Number of people who received vaccines:
1st dose: + 248,933
2nd dose: + 42,642
Total: 11,619,618

2,564 (+68) patients are in critical condition, with 698 (+22) of them on ventilators.

[Osandpo]

Thai PBS have just announced (in Thai only so far) a new 7 day complete lockdown in Bangkok and the worst affected provinces.