News Forum - Monday Covid Update: 24,635 new cases; provincial totals

[Thaiger]

81 coronavirus-related deaths were reported by the CCSA today, raising the pandemic’s death toll in Thailand to 24,880 with 3,182 of those fatalities since the start of this year. In the 24-hour period since the last count, the CCSA recorded 24,635 new Covid-19 cases and 25,753 recoveries. There are now 250,737 people in Thailand being treated for Covid-19. Out of the new cases recorded today, 31 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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[JamesR]

"Yesterday, 29,347 people received their first dose of the vaccine, 11,195 received their second dose, and 70,440 people received a third shot to boost their immunity against the coronavirus."

Wow, so far behind many other countries in the world, I had my first jab in the UK on the 4th March 2021 which is over a year ago and had all three jabs by November 2021.

Thailand will never open at this slow rate.

I was talking to a Thai in Surat Thani a few days ago and she said she knows many Thai people who have refused to get any vaccination as they believe the nonsense the vaccine is dangerous.

[Soidog]

The case numbers and deaths are literally flat lining. I’ve never seen a case and fatality profile like the one Thailand claims to have. One measure is what’s called the positivity rate. This is the number of cases compared to the number of tests. The following chart shows the problem in Thailand. For some reason the last data was March 5th ?