Covid-19 News & Updates

[PeteC]

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18,943 new Covid cases, 69 more deaths

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[buksida]

US CDC urges Americans to avoid travel to Thailand
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday urged Americans to avoid travel to Thailand, Hong Kong and New Zealand over Covid-19 cases.

The CDC elevated its travel recommendation to "Level Four: Very High" for Thailand and two other destinations. In total, the CDC urges Americans to avoid travel to about 135 countries and territories.
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"If you must travel to Thailand, make sure you are vaccinated and up to date with your Covid-19 vaccines before travel," it said, adding that "even if you are up to date with your Covid-19 vaccines, you may still be at risk for getting and spreading Covid-19."

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22,073 new Covid cases, 69 more deaths

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22,984 new Covid cases, 74 more deaths

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[joelle]

High rise again specially the number of deaths linked to COVID

[Dannie Boy]

High rise again specially the number of deaths linked to COVID

I had a horrible feeling that it hadn’t plateaued and had a number of weeks to go judging by the trends in the UK - hopefully the peak will be reached by the end of the month and then start falling

[buksida]

hopefully the peak will be reached by the end of the month and then start falling

Keep hoping, its Songkran next month which is when Bangkok takes 10 days off to travel around the country and infect everyone!

[HHTel]

Plus if you count the ATK testing that ramps it up to 72,000 cases yesterday.

[PeteC]

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24,792 new Covid cases, 63 more deaths

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[PeteC]

This is a complete reversal of policy IMO. Up to now if a person had Covid and he died, the cause was listed as Covid regardless of any underlying problems. The motivation obviously is to make the country's numbers look better.

Thai government to change how Covid-19 deaths are recorded

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The Public Health Ministry says it will adjust how it records Covid-19 deaths after it emerged that up to 30% of patients who died passed away as a result of underlying illnesses. According to a Bangkok Post report, health minister Anutin Charnvirakul says officials will revise the data to ensure the cause of death in Covid patients is more accurately established. The move comes as Dr Kiattiphum Wongrajit from the health ministry confirms that between 10 and 30% of patients who died while infected with the virus also had conditions such as cancer.

Thailand reported another 74 deaths yesterday, which was a record high during this current wave, but significantly less than the 312 deaths reported during the pandemic’s peak. New infections rose for the third day in a row yesterday, at 22,984. This figure doesn’t include 49,494 positive antigen results, which would bring that daily total to 72,478.

Meanwhile, the Bangkok Post reports that the National Health Security Office continues to struggle with the volume of calls it’s receiving from Covid patients. Dr Jadet Thammathat-aree from the NHSO says the office has missed over 3,500 calls and messages due to the service being overwhelmed. He says the office will follow up on the missed calls and messages to ask patients about their symptoms. He adds that it will take around 5 days to return the calls of all patients in Bangkok and in 5 surrounding provinces.

Patients with only mild symptoms will be given a supply of Favipiravir and told to rest for 10 days. The NHSO and the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine have also distributed around 40,000 packs of the alternative treatment green chiretta to 900 communities.

SOURCE: Bangkok Post

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