Covid-19 News & Updates

[PeteC]

18 Covid deaths, 1,911 new cases

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

The government on Thursday reported 18 new Covid-19 deaths over the past 24 hours, for a total of 336, and 1,911 new cases, raising the total to 76,811.

In the third wave of Covid-19, which started at the beginning of last month, there were 47,948 cases, 19,369 of whom have already recovered.

On Wednesday, 2,435 Covid patients were discharged from hospitals.

Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said six of the deaths were in Bangkok, three in Samut Prakan province, two each in Nonthaburi, Chiang Mai and Samut Sakhon and one each in Pathum Thani, Yala and Sing Buri.

Thirteen were women and five were men. They were aged 45-100 years. Thirteen of them had hypertension. Other illnesses were diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, obesity, lung disease, thyroid disorder, previous stroke, renal disease or cancer.

Twelve deaths were people who had close contact with infected family members, one caught the disease from a previously confirmed case, another from a friend, one visited a risk area in Chiang Mai province, one lived in a risk area and two were vendors at malls.

The 1,911 new cases (1,298 in Greater Bangkok) included 1,902 local infections, 1,749 of them confirmed at hospitals and 153 via mass testing.

Bangkok had 739 new cases, Nonthaburi 273, Samut Prakan 143, Chon Buri, 76, Samut Sakhon 65, Surat Thani, 53, Nakhon Pathom 47, Ayutthaya and Chachoengsao 35 each and Pathum Thani and Nakhon Si Thammarat 31 each.

"The situation in Bangkok is still worrying and most new cases were found in congested communities," Dr Taweesilp said.

There were nine new imported cases, seven of them quarantined arrivals from the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Ireland, Iran (2), the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. The two others were a Thai man and woman who sneaked in from Malaysia and Cambodia respectively.

Of the 76,811 total cases, 46,795 (60.9%) had recovered and 29,680 were in hospitals, with 1,073 in critical condition and 356 dependent on ventilators.

Global Covid-19 cases rose by 837,731 in 24 hours to 155.82 million. The worldwide death toll went up by 14,278 to 3.25 million. India logged 412,618 new cases for a total of 21.97 million and 3,982 new deaths. for a toll of 230,151.

[Big Boy]

Today's Brief:

[HHTel]

Every statement from the 'government' over the last week or so has been followed by a contradiction. Will this be the final dictate. "All cases in the high risk groups will be scheduled regardless of nationality".

Let's hope so but I'm not holding my breath.

[Big Boy]

She blames the press for putting a bad slant on the information - what happened to them clamping down on fake news.

[HHTel]

The 'bad slant' was using actual quotes from government spokespersons. How slanted can it get?

[dtaai-maai]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... pandemic1/

Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic

The public health measures that slow the spread of the novel coronavirus work really well on influenza

Since the novel coronavirus began its global spread, influenza cases reported to the World Health Organization have dropped to minuscule levels. The reason, epidemiologists think, is that the public health measures taken to keep the coronavirus from spreading also stop the flu. Influenza viruses are transmitted in much the same way as SARS-CoV-2, but they are less effective at jumping from host to host.

Every cloud...?

[hhinner]

^^ Oh goody! Let's keep doing it./s

[HHTel]

From FB:

Reported today 7th May:

2,044 new cases
27 deaths.

Recoveries 2,377. This is the second day that recoveries are greater than infections. Hopefully that will continue.

[Dannie Boy]

Although deaths are showing little sign of reducing

[joelle]

Although deaths are showing little sign of reducing

Really?? Reducing?? Deaths : Today 27, yesterday 18, Wednesday 15

[HHTel]

Joelle, you don't understand the English language well enough. Not your fault.

'Showing little sign of reducing' means that it's not reducing.

[joelle]

Joelle, you don't understand the English language well enough. Not your fault.

'Showing little sign of reducing' means that it's not reducing.

Oups so sorry misread, please delete my post
I apologise

[Dannie Boy]

Joelle, you don't understand the English language well enough. Not your fault.

'Showing little sign of reducing' means that it's not reducing.

Oups so sorry misread, please delete my post
I apologise

No problem, Covid’s the problem!!

[PeteC]

More details when published.

COVID-19 in Thailand Update (May 7, 2021)
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As of Friday, 1,070 (-3) patients are in critical condition, with 367 (+11) of them relying on ventilator. Only 0.68 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, with 1,201,258 (+33,539) people received the first dose, while 450,524 (+16,410) received the second dose.

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[joelle]

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