News Forum - Friday Covid Update: 8,158 new cases; provincial totals

[Thaiger]

15 coronavirus-related deaths were reported by the CCSA today, raising the pandemic’s death toll in Thailand to 21,898 with 200 of those fatalities since the start of this year. In the 24-hour period since the last count, the CCSA recorded 8,158 new Covid-19 cases and 3,942 recoveries. There are now 74,795 people in Thailand being treated for Covid-19. Out of the new cases recorded today, 11 were found in correctional facilities. More than 80,000 inmates at Thailand’s overcrowded prisons and detention centres have tested positive for Covid-19 over the past several months. Since the start of the pandemic last year, […]

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[Morpheus]

These figures dont add  up. In one small amphur within our province of Mukdahan they had 400 cases in one day. And our province hadly gets a mention in these figures released from CSA. And lets not forget here in Thailand RAT tests are not publisized. I suspect the government down playing real Omicron cases.

[palooka]

30 minutes ago, Morpheus said:

 I suspect the government down playing real Omicron cases.

Not down playing, they just don't have a clue, you have to test and count to get real figures and they do neither seriously.

[Chatogaster]

53 minutes ago, Morpheus said:

These figures dont add  up. In one small amphur within our province of Mukdahan they had 400 cases in one day. And our province hadly gets a mention in these figures released from CSA. And lets not forget here in Thailand RAT tests are not publisized. I suspect the government down playing real Omicron cases.

Just compared the provincial data (+27 cases yesterday, +66 today) as published by โควิด19 จังหวัดมุกดาหาร - Covid-19 Mukdahan with was published by the CCSA (+37).  Allowing for differences in cut-off points, that adds up (to be more precise: it doesn't not add up). What's your source & metric for 400 ?

[vlad]

200 Dead from Covid in 14 day's. 

[HiuMak]

The previous 3k support level is broken and the new level is 8K. Steady and holding.

[Morpheus]

On 1/14/2022 at 5:28 PM, Chatogaster said:

Just compared the provincial data (+27 cases yesterday, +66 today) as published by โควิด19 จังหวัดมุกดาหาร - Covid-19 Mukdahan with was published by the CCSA (+37).  Allowing for differences in cut-off points, that adds up (to be more precise: it doesn't not add up). What's your source & metric for 400 ?

Local government employee. (family)

[AlexPTY]

these numbers mean nothing for Omicron type of infections, most countries switching to better date as Thailand should:

 

"Instead, public health officials are considering a shift from increasingly inaccurate case data to numbers they say better represent the effect of the disease on the community and the health care system: COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.

Omicron case counts are shattering all previous COVID-19 records. But the numbers don’t carry the same weight they used to. State and local health departments are preparing to explain that to the public and start reporting more meaningful data on the virus."

 

[Manu]

22 minutes ago, AlexPTY said:

these numbers mean nothing for Omicron type of infections, most countries switching to better date as Thailand should:

"Instead, public health officials are considering a shift from increasingly inaccurate case data to numbers they say better represent the effect of the disease on the community and the health care system: COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.

Omicron case counts are shattering all previous COVID-19 records. But the numbers don’t carry the same weight they used to. State and local health departments are preparing to explain that to the public and start reporting more meaningful data on the virus."

...and the sooner the better. It will end the "numbers-that-mean-nothing" hysteria in this forum for a start.

https://english.elpais.com/society/2022-01-10/with-coronavirus-cases-on-the-rise-spain-adapts-influenza-surveillance-system-to-covid-19.html