Covid-19 News & Updates

[buksida]

Just curious but any idea why is this coming from an Irish community on Facebook when it should be on a real news website or TV channel somewhere?

[Nereus]

Firstly, airports were not in my post! and secondly, the onus is on the airlines not the airport.

Absolutely!

[Big Boy]

Just curious but any idea why is this coming from an Irish community on Facebook when it should be on a real news website or TV channel somewhere?

It is live on TV every day - about an hour in Thai, followed by the English Summary. The Irish Community are very fast at capturing and uploading to a media that can be shared. While they are happy to do it, I am very grateful, and take the easy way out to share it

[PeteC]

Coronavirus: The world in lockdown in maps and charts

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52103747

[HHTel]

Taken from a statement by the director of the Division Communicable Diseases yesterday:

Sophon said the mortality statistics showed male patients have a four times higher risk of death from Covid-19 as 2.7 per cent of deceased patients are males while only 0.7 per cent are females

And the other 96.6% are what???

[thecolonel]

Taken from a statement by the director of the Division Communicable Diseases yesterday:

Sophon said the mortality statistics showed male patients have a four times higher risk of death from Covid-19 as 2.7 per cent of deceased patients are males while only 0.7 per cent are females

And the other 96.6% are what???

See Worldometers for an explanation on case fatality rate calculations

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[Big Boy]

Today's numbers (will replace with better version if/when it is published) - updated:

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[HHTel]

Taken from a statement by the director of the Division Communicable Diseases yesterday:

Sophon said the mortality statistics showed male patients have a four times higher risk of death from Covid-19 as 2.7 per cent of deceased patients are males while only 0.7 per cent are females

And the other 96.6% are what???

See Worldometers for an explanation on case fatality rate calculations

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I know what is meant. I'm not that stupid. I was attempting a joke on the statement itself!!

[nil]

This is interesting.



That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd.

Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiologists, advisor to the Swedish Government (he hired Anders Tegnell who is currently directing Swedish strategy), the first Chief Scientist of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and an advisor to the director general of the WHO, lays out with typically Swedish bluntness why he thinks:

- UK policy on lockdown and other European countries are not evidence-based
- The correct policy is to protect the old and the frail only
- This will eventually lead to herd immunity as a “by-product”
- The initial UK response, before the “180 degree U-turn”, was better
- The Imperial College paper was “not very good” and he has never seen an unpublished paper have so much policy impact
- The paper was very much too pessimistic
- Any such models are a dubious basis for public policy anyway
- The flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as the lockdown
- The results will eventually be similar for all countries
- Covid-19 is a “mild disease” and similar to the flu, and it was the novelty of the disease that scared people.
- The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1%
- At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available

[Big Boy]

This one is pretty big, and just over an hour old. Basically all the good people helping with food donations have to stop immediately, and food donation has to be coordinated through local government. I can understand the reasoning of Social Distancing (I drove past food distribution on Soi 94 earlier), because it doesn't happen. However, I drove past the Tessebahn's distribution a couple of days ago, and there wasn't much Social Distancing there either (maybe at the physical distribution point, but I couldn't see through the crowds).

My fear is some of the good people doing the distribution now, may be put off if it's centralised.

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[Big Boy]

[sateeb]

Deputy PM tries to clarify the PM’s letters to Thailand’s richest citizens

On Friday night the Thai PM told the Thai population that he was going to send a letter to Thailand’s Top 20 richest people asking for their ideas on how to revive the Thai economy. And he hinted that he wants them to chip in as well.

He explained that he’s doing it to gather their input and ideas to ease the impact on the economy and seeking their advice. The reaction of Thai social media was predictably savage accusing Prayut and his coalition as being a “beggar government”.

But Deputy PM Wissanu Krea-ngam last night wanted to clarify that the letters the government is sending to 20 of the richest Thais was not begging for money.

He said that “things will get clearer next week and it is the premier who is taking care of all the details,” (great, that clarifies everything).

Though the PM did not mention the top richest of Thailand by name during his address, they would include CP’s Chearavanont family, Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, the Chirathiwat family, Gulf Energy Development’s CEO Sarath Ratanavadi, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services and Bangkok Airways founder Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, the Osathanugrah family, and BTS Group Holdings chairman Keeree Kanjanapas.

With an estimated net worth of US$16.9 billion, Dhanin Chearavanont, senior chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group, is the wealthiest person in Thailand.

The number two spot was occupied by Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi with a net worth of US$16.6 billion. He runs Thailand’s largest brewer, Thai Beverage, known for its Chang beer.

Number 20 on the list, presumably going to get a letter as well, is Thaksin Shinawatra with an estimated net worth of US$1.9 billion. We can imagine the letter…

“Hi Thaksin. How are things in London? Getting used to the cold weather? How’s your sister? Haven’t caught up with you or your family much recently, as you’re a bit difficult to contact. I’ve been busy being prime minister. You know what it’s like – meetings, phone calls, signing things, coups. Anyway, I’ve got this great idea…”

During his Friday evening address the Prayut also called on people to stand in unity with the government, without the division of “colour” (referring to the red shirt-yellow shirt political divide in Thai politics).

Prime Minister Prayut told the public that he and the Covid-19 Situation Administration Centre representatives will meet next week to discuss the possible loosening of restrictions and measures.

We look forward to hearing about the replies of the letters.

https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/economy ... t-citizens

[europtimiste]

Thailand's richest and the richest has been forgotten.

[Big Boy]

Do not go down that road.

[HHTel]

This will eventually lead to herd immunity as a “by-product”

Unproven and actually currently in doubt.