News Forum - COVID-19 SATURDAY UPDATE: Infections spike, deaths stable

[Thaiger]

Covid-19 infections have taken a sharp rise from 3,000 at the start of the year to over 8,000 infections recorded yesterday, with imported cases doubling, though deaths have been fairly stable and low. Today, the CCSA reported 8,263 new infections, up 737 since yesterday, and 14 Coronavirus-related deaths, down 5 from yesterday. Since April 1, 2021, in the latest wave of the virus in Thailand, a total of 2,232,166 confirmed infections have been reported, with 21,813 total deaths from the pandemic. In the 24 hour period since the last count, the CCSA has reported 2,865 recoveries, up 30 from yesterday. […]

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[Tom_Archer]

I am really pleased to see the Omicron spike start to appear in the Thai stats, but not for any bad reason.

In the UK Omicron is quickly displacing Delta with 96% + of cases now Omicron.

Not only are very few people getting badly sick with Omicron in the UK, but the very few that require hospital attention have almost all got one thing in common - they are morbidly obese.

In a lean nation like Thailand this variant should be welcomed with open arms - with very few people getting Covid a second time (among recent infections in South Africa, only 1.2% had been previously infected) this should be the end game for the pandemic.

Time to stop running scared of this bug and let Omicron pass through the Thai population, so everyone can move on and return to normality.

Edited January 8, 2022 by Tom_Archer