Covid-19 News & Updates

[HHTel]

Some big numbers out today. Over 4,000 cases with 35 deaths.

The usual posters will provide the detail.

[PeteC]

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Official COVID-19 update in Thailand on Tuesday
* 225,365 people infected (+4,059)
* 187,836 discharged from hospital (+2,047)
* 35,836 in hospital
* 1,693 deaths (+35)
Imported cases - 21
Domestic cases - 2,257
Proactive case finding in communities - 1,706
Cases found in correctional facilities - 75
Number of people who received vaccines:
1st dose: + 152,809
2nd dose: + 74,830
Total: 7,906,696

As of Tuesday, 1,479 (+43) patients are in critical condition, with 410 (+15) of them relying on ventilator.

[joelle]

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Tuesday 22nd June
FB link for reference: https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld
Slight mistake on their chart it should be Tuesday not Wednesday

[Big Boy]

Today's Daily Brief:

[PeteC]

4,059 new Covid cases, 35 deaths announced Tuesday

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

[HHTel]

Thailand has the contract to manufacture AZ vaccine for SE Asia.

So we had AZ donations from S. Korea recently.

Now we're getting AZ donations from Japan next month.

Says it all doesn't it?

[hhinner]

^^ It says not nearly enough and not loud enough either.

[HHTel]

We're seeing the numbers going in the wrong direction. Cases seem to have settled on 3,000+ per day and the death toll just keeps rising. 51 deaths reported today.
I wonder how the Delta variant figures in these cases.

Phuket's 'sand box' opening in a week!!!

[PeteC]

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Official COVID-19 update in Thailand on Wednesday
* 228,539 people infected (+3,174)
* 189,777 discharged from hospital (+1,941)
* 37,018 in hospital
* 1,744 deaths (+51)
Imported cases - 26
Domestic cases - 2,392
Proactive case finding in communities - 720
Cases found in correctional facilities - 36
Number of people who received vaccines:
1st dose: + 165,673
2nd dose: + 75,966
Total: 8,148,335

The number of critically ill patients continues to rise. As of Wednesday, 1,526 (+47) patients are in the ICUs, 433 (+23) of them relying on ventilator.

Hospital beds in Bangkok are just about all filled.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... unning-out

[joelle]

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Wednesday 23rd June
FB link for reference: https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld

[PeteC]

Record 51 Covid deaths, 3,174 new cases

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

[PeteC]

"He said that public and private are limiting the number of tests they provide because there are not enough beds for everyone who might test positive."

Well there it is, someone finally said it. We waste our time looking at published numbers as they don't tell even half of the story.

Leading doctor calls for Bangkok lockdown

https://www.thaienquirer.com/28921/lead ... -lockdown/

A doctor at the largest public hospital in Thailand on Wednesday asked the government to lock down Bangkok for seven days to stop the spread of Covid-19 in the capital amid shortages of hospital beds.

A new daily high for the Covid-related death toll was also reached in the past 24 hours, the government said.

“It seems like we are cornered, there are not that many options left,” Dr Nitipat Jiarakul, chief of Siriraj Hospital’s Division of Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis Department, posted in his social media page on Wednesday.

“The number of daily new cases is not decreasing” and could potentially exceed 10,000, he indicated.

He said that public and private are limiting the number of tests they provide because there are not enough beds for everyone who might test positive.

He also said there had been a higher ratio of elderly and people with underlying diseases among those infected in the third wave, and they usually take longer time to recover.

“Each hospital is trying not to test that many people because there is not enough bed for when they have tested positive,” Dr Nitipat.

“We can no longer add any more bed for patients in severity level 2 and 3,” he added.

Patients in severity level 1 will normally require a ventilator to breathe.

He said the number of available beds that could handle cases with severity level 2 and 3 at major public hospitals is now less than 5 percent.

The Ministry of Public Health said on Tuesday that there were only 20 hospital beds left at public hospitals that could handle severe cases.

There are currently 433 Covid patients who require ventilators and 210 of them are being treated in Bangkok, the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said on Wednesday.

The majority of the remaining patients on ventilator are being treated in Samut Prakan with 53 cases followed by 22 in Nonthaburi, 21 in Chonburi, 20 in Pathum Thani, 15 in Samut Sakhon and 13 in Nakhon Pathom.

The CCSA also reported that there are now 37,018 patients being treated at hospitals. Of that, 11,366 are being treated at public and private hospitals and 25,652 are being treated at field hospitals that are usually for patient with small symptoms and asymptomatic patients.

“For me, the final answer for this fourth wave is lock down Bangkok for seven days to get rid of left-over problems and reduce the number of new problems that are piling up,” Dr Nitipat said.

New high

The CCSA said 3,174 new Covid cases and a new high of 51 related deaths were found in the past 24 hours. The previous record was 47 on May 27.

Of the 3,112 local cases (excluding 36 cases in prisons and 26 imported cases), the highest numbers by province were 956 in Bangkok followed by 501 in Samut Prakan, 240 in Samut Sakhon, 185 in Songkhla, 142 in Chonburi and 120 in Pattani.

The CCSA also reported that there have been a total of 96 known clusters in Bangkok. Of those 79 have reported cases in the past 14 days including 30 in worker camps and working sites, 17 at businesses and factories, 17 around markets and shopping centres, 12 in residential areas, two at care homes and one at a naval academy.

[Big Boy]

Today's Brief:

[HHTel]

This briefing gets more and more embarrassing every day.

I hope they have enough staff at the airport to handle the thousands of tourists desperate to enter the Phuket 'sandbox'. LOL.

[hhinner]

^^ Saw a news report on the Phuket airport preparations this afternoon. Had to chuckle. Have the rules even been settled so that the potential tourist (I hesitate to use a plural) knows what they can expect and do?