News Forum - Sunday Covid Update: 180 deaths 14,029 new cases

[Thaiger]

180 coronavirus-related deaths and 14,029 new Covid-19 cases were reported today by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration. In the past 24-hours since the last count, the CCSA has recorded 15,742 recoveries. There are now 135,966 people in Thailand currently receiving treatment for the coronavirus. In the latest and most severe wave of Covid-19, first recorded on April 1, the CCSA has reported 1,353,310 confirmed Covid-19 infections. Out of the new infections reported today, 276 were found at correctional facilities. In the latest wave, more than 40,000 inmates at Thailand’s overcrowded prisons have tested positive for Covid-19. More information will […]

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[JackIsAGoodBoy]

It was all just bullshit to lockdown more tightly. The cases have not skyrocketed at all, instead going down.

Edited September 12, 2021 by JackIsAGoodBoy

[HolyCowCm]

Cutting back on the testing I would think in order to manipulate their plan to open the country.

[Jason]

The outcome of cutting testing to "massage the figures", is only more cases requiring hospitalisation. Lockdowns are effective at controlling the spread, while the population is getting vaccinated. The "elephant in the room" (and if there's any country in the world that would appreciate the saying...it's Thailand!) is the lack of consistent supplies of vaccines. Seeing that Astra Zeneca is the only developer/producer willing to grant license for the production in other countries (like my own), wouldn't it be worthwhile securing the license so Thailand can produce it's own supply?

[Jason]

There is another subtle transmitter of Delta that seems to have been largely overlooked by government and media...The cash economy. Thailand is still a country where currency notes are the main form of payment for good and services. Cashless and contactless forms of payment are still far to rare. All that currency being passed from one person to another, taking Delta with it! Maybe this will give impetus to cashless and contactless forms of payment. If you're a shop assistant, handling currency notes, you might want to slip on some surgical gloves whn handling it....