Beds for COVID-19 patients in an emergency hospital at the Chiang Mai International Convention and Exhibition Center(MATEE TP / Shutterstock.com)
The Thai government reports 1.335 new coronavirus infections for today, the highest number since the epidemic began early last year. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 35.910. The death toll remains unchanged at 97.
Bangkok had the most new infections with 351, followed by Chiang Mai (319) and Prachuap Khiri Khan (161). Opas Karnkawinpong, director general of the Department of Disease Control, says that most infections are related to entertainment venues.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered officials from all government agencies to work from home until the end of the month if possible and asked the private sector to follow suit to prevent further spread.
Authorities in 43 provinces have imposed travel restrictions. Surin was the last, joining 42 other provinces on Tuesday night, the Interior Ministry said.
Big worries in Chiang Mai
The authorities in Chiang Mai are also very concerned about the increase in infections, which now exceed 260 every day. 1.260 infections were reported yesterday, bringing the total number of infections since the pandemic broke out early last year to XNUMX.
Chatuchai Maneerat, head of provincial health care, says if the number of infections continues to exceed XNUMX per day, hospitals will run out of capacity. Since the outbreak at the beginning of last month, more than six hundred people have tested positive and two hundred have been admitted to hospital.
The province now has a thousand beds in the provincial field hospital. “That number may not be enough,” he says. Therefore, the authorities decided to add another thousand.
Governor Charoenrit reports that a second emergency hospital is being worked on and that further preparations may be needed to accommodate the flow of new patients. The field hospital at Chiang Mai University can be expanded with 300 beds and the Territorial Defense Training School with 120 beds.
Source: Bangkok Post
Hear that many people from Myanmar enter Thailand and are infected and would spread the virus. Do not know if that is really the case, but the Thai Government should massively vaccinate their own population. Tourism has always been an important source of income for Thailand.
In Thailand it is never the Thai's fault. For the time being, it has been established that most of the sources of this outbreak of infections originated in exclusive brothels frequented by the wealthy Thai man. Then I wonder how they got that virus? Would it be possible that they do not have to be quarantined after a foreign business trip? After all, a pile of money works wonders.
Dear marcello, if your assumption is correct, Chiang Mai should have the most cases of Myanmarese.
However, the reality is, as you can see, almost 80% of infections are related to entertainment venues.
I do not want to talk about your comment about our own people, because it leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth.
That means 2 weeks in quarantine upon arrival in Chiangmai, although not in a hotel designated by the government.
In the press today: “Denmark stops AstraZeneca completely and suspends use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine”. Increasing clusters of infections, unsafe vaccines. I'm afraid this is all going in the wrong direction.
It is indeed possible to vaccinate en masse, but more and more people are now questioning the safety of certain vaccine brands. If several countries start to refuse vaccines, it could take a long time before the majority of the world's population will be vaccinated. There is already a serious shortage of vaccines, where does this end?
I hope for drastic measures from the Thai government. And everyone has yet to return from Songkran celebrations across the country. Oops… this does not bode well…
Is there anything about the travel restrictions?
For example, can (Thai) people still travel to Suvarnabhumi airport to go to Europe?
And now the news to all less than 1 km from my home in the village where I live, the first person has been admitted to the hospital in CM with Covid.
A ladyboy who also liked to go out, especially in CM.
His parents have a clothing factory in our village.
This morning the village chief announced through the sound system that the last market still open will also be closed immediately. Also, many in the immediate vicinity, so in our village, are now under guarantine.
A few days earlier in Pasang during a military conscription examination at a local high school, a similar story, also infections via Horeca in Chiangmai.
The company from another village, which normally brings our drinking water every week and a young employee of which also had to pass the inspection, is now also in guaranty, including the accompanying puy job from his village.
I still laugh when I think of all those stories and reports on this blog by fellow bloggers who have to jump through burning hoops via Thai embassies COE, FIT TO FLY 72 hours before departure QAS hotels and whatnot to be allowed in Thailand come.
Meanwhile, the house is on fire inside.
Jan Beute
On April 13, only 557.000 people had been vaccinated 1x in Thailand, so immunity will have to wait a while......
https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1213894-ddc-discourages-inter-provincial-travel-as-songkran-comes-to-an-end/
We shouldn't panic:
– 80% do not even know that they were infected because they are not sick of it
– 10-15% have some mild complaints and can in principle take a rest at home (not in Thailand because a bed has been reserved for you and 'the innkeeper (Prayut?) does not trust his guests to stay at home'.
– 5% really need more medical care.
And between 1-2% die from it.
Telling the truth is not panicking. Downplaying the problems makes everything worse. Fear and panic arise when you are insufficiently informed and have to continue with uncertainties and incorrect information.