Covid-19 News & Updates

[Big Boy]

Today's Brief:

[joelle]

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Thursday 8th July
FB link for reference: https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld

[hhinner]

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

It's going to be the subject of a CCSA proposal. So any announcement is premature. It's in today's CCSA briefing.

[joelle]

Ranking of 10 provinces with highest COVID-19 transmission, as of 8 July 2021

[PeteC]

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

It's going to be the subject of a CCSA proposal. So any announcement is premature. It's in today's CCSA briefing.

There's articles popping up now that something will be decided at meetings tomorrow. 7 days won't even put a dent in it though, so if it starts with that it will surely be extended in increments. .

[PeteC]

Record 75 Covid deaths, 7,058 new cases

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

[Osandpo]

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/semi-lockd ... 19-deaths/

An article in English now - not very clear on detail but they’re talking a minimum of 14 days with a decision to be made tomorrow

[HHTel]

with the exception of markets

Hasn't it been acknowledged that markets are one of the main sources of transmission?

[handdrummer]

What's that Mexican game, where a person is blindfolded and waves a stick with a nail on the end and tries to hit a piñata filled with prizes for everyone. That's what this government is like.

[PeteC]

Thailand ranked 3rd to last worldwide on Covid-19 handling

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/thai ... 9-handling

[PeteC]

72 Covid deaths, 9,276 new cases

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

Note: This link will lead to the updated story sometime around 1500 hours this afternoon.

[Big Boy]

Thailand ranked 3rd to last worldwide on Covid-19 handling

https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/thai ... 9-handling

What a change around from last year's accolades.

[PeteC]

All statistics reporting delayed today due to the meetings concerning the new lockdown rules. We'll post when they do.

[Big Boy]

I fear this lockdown will be harsh. The only thing that is being said so far is the PM + 11 cabinet ministers will forego their salaries for 3 months. I worry that if they are punishing themselves, what is the average man on the street facing?

[Big Boy]

The CCSA are currently preparing a summary of information about the new measures to help solve the Covid19 situation. There will be a live broadcast about this at around 4pm on NBT2HD