Covid-19 News & Updates

[HHTel]

No good signs in today's (29th May) figures:

New Cases: 4,803 including 2,702 from the prison system
Deaths: 34

Recoveries: 4,439
120,916 cases since Apr 1st

[Dannie Boy]

With no lockdowns and little/no intervention by vaccination, there is no way the figures will improve. The best you can do is limit your movements, take all reasonable precautions and wait for the jabs to commence!!

[HHTel]

I'm actually getting used to being in my 'bubble'. I might need therapy to leave it when things get back to normal, if ever.

[PeteC]

Interesting development. No further story at the moment, just the below headline.

Khaosod English

A man registers for the COVID-19 vaccine at a 7-Eleven today in Bangkok. Starting Thursday, citizens aged 18–59 were able to register for vaccination at 7-Eleven, FamilyMart, Tops Daily, and Big C Mini branches across Bangkok.

[handdrummer]

Interesting development. No further story at the moment, just the below headline.

Khaosod English

A man registers for the COVID-19 vaccine at a 7-Eleven today in Bangkok. Starting Thursday, citizens aged 18–59 were able to register for vaccination at 7-Eleven, FamilyMart, Tops Daily, and Big C Mini branches across Bangkok.

What will the time lag be, between registration and injection?

[GroveHillWanderer]

Interesting development. No further story at the moment, just the below headline.

Khaosod English

A man registers for the COVID-19 vaccine at a 7-Eleven today in Bangkok. Starting Thursday, citizens aged 18–59 were able to register for vaccination at 7-Eleven, FamilyMart, Tops Daily, and Big C Mini branches across Bangkok.

What will the time lag be, between registration and injection?

According to published news reports quoting a government spokesperson, vaccination for 18-59 year-olds (without underlying conditions) will start in August.

I imagine it would depend on how the vaccination drive goes in June and July, though.

[GroveHillWanderer]

I'm actually getting used to being in my 'bubble'. I might need therapy to leave it when things get back to normal, if ever.

Same here.

[joelle]

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Saturday 29th May
FB link for reference: https://www.facebook.com/nbtworld

[PeteC]

More details when published.

COVID-19 in Thailand Update (May 29, 2021)
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As of Saturday, 1,221 (-5) patients are in critical condition, with 406 (+1) of them relying on ventilator. About 1.64 percent of the population is fully vaccinated, with 2,415,903 (+96,599) people received the first dose, while 1,088,222 (+60,476) received the second dose.

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[Big Boy]

Today's Brief:

[PeteC]

Amid continuing surge of Covid-19, Thailand sees over 4,800 new cases

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40001443

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Saturday reported 4,803 new cases, among the highest on a single day since the outbreak, and 34 deaths over a 24-hour period.

The new cases included 2,702 infections found in prisons and 51 overseas travellers in quarantine.

Bangkok led the list with 1,054 cases, followed by 215 in Samut Prakan and 186 in Nonthaburi.

The infected overseas arrivals included 50 Thais – 47 from Cambodia and three from Saudi Arabia. The other case was a Serbian from Serbia.

The Thai capital also led the list of fatalities with 21 deaths, followed by two each in Samut Prakan, Chiang Rai and Pathum Thani, one each in Phetchaburi, Phetchabun, Nonthaburi, Ayutthaya, Ratchaburi, Songkhla and Saraburi provinces.

Meanwhile, 4,434 patients have recovered and been discharged in the last 24 hours.

As of Saturday, the number of confirmed cases in Thailand had risen to 149,779. So far, 102,311 people have recovered and been discharged, 46,480 patients are still in hospitals and 988 have died.

Meanwhile, another 96,599 people were given their first Covid-19 shot in the last 24 hours, while 60,476 were given their second shot, bringing the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in Thailand to 3,504,125.

According to Worldometer, as of 10am on Saturday, the number of confirmed cases globally had risen to 170.12 million (up by 505,813), 151.95 million of whom have recovered, 14.64 million are active cases (93,398 in severe condition) and 3.53 million have died (up by 11,968).

Thailand ranks 84th on the global list of most cases, which is topped by the US with 34.02 million, followed by India 27.71 million, Brazil 16.39 million, France 5.64 million, and Turkey 5.22 million.

[dtaai-maai]

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-wh ... obal-en-GB

COVID-19: which countries will be the next to see a big spike in cases?

Beneath the many complexities of the marathon that is the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a simple hypothesis: if the coronavirus is introduced into a susceptible population, and those people are able to mix, then there will be significant community transmission. Across 2020 and 2021, we have seen this happen around the world, including, recently, in India.

Who else is at risk?

In terms of where cases are increasing most quickly (at time of publication), the website Our World in Data highlights Laos, Timor, Thailand, Cambodia, Fiji and Mongolia as the countries where numbers have recently doubled in the shortest period of time (ranging from 16 to 23 days for these countries; for comparison, the doubling rate for India ahead of its second wave was 43 days). When looking at the countries whose reported deaths are currently doubling most quickly, it’s Timor, Thailand, Mongolia, Cambodia and Uruguay (range: four to 31 days).

For countries such as Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and also Vietnam (highly praised so far), it’s high susceptibility to COVID-19 that’s the problem. They’ve had few cases in the past, so there’s little natural immunity, and they’re now experiencing outbreaks amid an inability to procure a large vaccine supply. Vaccine coverage therefore is low. Thailand and Vietnam have given a first dose to just 2% and 1% of their populations respectively.

[Big Boy]

I don't disagree with most of that. However, according to my vaccine tracker, Thailand have given a first dose to 5% of the population (3,208,882 doses in total). I haven't done the maths to check that %.

[PeteC]

Bangkok Post version for today.

34 Covid fatalities, 4,803 new cases

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

[HHTel]

From FB 30th May:

New cases: 4,528 including 1,902 from the prison system.
Deaths: 24

2,933 recoveries.
125,444 cases since Apr 1st.