News Forum - Saturday Covid-19 Update: 11,975 infections, 127 deaths

[Thaiger]

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration reported 11,975 new Covid-19 infections in Thailand along with 127 deaths, both lower than yesterday. Covid-19 data was relatively good over the last 24 hours as total patients in medical care (124,540), patients in ICUs (3,323), patients on ventilators (729), suspected infections by ATK test (2370), and infections in prisons (93) have all fallen since yesterday’s data. The total number of infections in Thailand since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic is 1,549,285 and with 14,700 recoveries over the past 24 hours, 1,408,821 have now recovered from Covid-19. A total of 16,143 people have […]

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[Jason]

Test numbers______??? Vaccination Numbers_____??? 

[Soidog]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Test numbers______??? Vaccination Numbers_____??? 

Numbers do seem to be improving. Looking at the positive rate, Thailand is now down to 26% from a high of 38% a few weeks ago. Long way to go to get to the levels seen elsewhere. 
 

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/positive-rate-daily-smoothed?tab=chart&time=2021-05-16..latest&country=THA~GBR~ISR~PHL

[Bob20]

29 minutes ago, Soidog said:

Numbers do seem to be improving. Looking at the positive rate, Thailand is now down to 26% from a high of 38% a few weeks ago. Long way to go to get to the levels seen elsewhere. 
 

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/positive-rate-daily-smoothed?tab=chart&time=2021-05-16..latest&country=THA~GBR~ISR~PHL

The data are clear. But let's not forget that they were never randomly acquired. Initially they were testing clusters and hotspots and that may now have changed into slightly less targeted test areas. A lower figure may not signal actual lower incidence in the general population.