Coronavirus Now in Thailand !!

[joudon]

So how busy is Pattaya at the moment and who is visiting

[Galee]

I'm surprised that there has been no mention of smokers being at risk with this virus. I'd assume that a smoker with compromised lung capacity would be a higher risk compared to a non-smoker?
It would be interesting to see a correlation of deaths for smokers and non-smokers.

[Kenr6583]

Most of my time in LK Metro, very busy. Not a fan of Walking Street, just went down there once to see if it was open. I was here last May and it is night and day, no Chinese tourist. Plenty packed with white faces, but no Indians either. Totally different than my first time here.

[Kenr6583]

One more thing to add. At BKK Airport they were not allowing India Nationals to go through the regular immigration lines, they were being redirected to someplace else, not sure where.

[jai yen yen]

Like I said before, this is going to be very bad. Stock up on supplies and stop going out if you don't have to. As of now i have no visitors to our house and we don't go out shopping or to areas where there are other people. A nursing home just across the border in Seattle has got an outbreak, 50 or more infected and 4 or 5 dead already. The old people will be hit very hard in the care homes. My wife is a care aid in a nursing home where we live and she will be quitting her job as soon as it gets closer to our area. I am retired so easier for me. Good luck to everyone.

[Zidane]

I'm surprised that there has been no mention of smokers being at risk with this virus. I'd assume that a smoker with compromised lung capacity would be a higher risk compared to a non-smoker?
It would be interesting to see a correlation of deaths for smokers and non-smokers.

Yes that's a very good point. In Wuhan, for example, the virus has affected far more men than women. One of the theories is that in China far more men smoke than women.

The virus seems to have little impact on children.
But if you are over 60 and have pre-existing health problems you are the most likely to be at risk.

[Mike-Quebec]

I think that just like " anefarious1 " say

it Probably going to be a mass chaos here within 2-3 weeks. It's gonna get ugly.

on the report of the " Novel Coronavirus 2019 Pneumonia Situation: Thailand situation update on 22 February 2020 "

it say's
from the 24 January until 21 February 2020, showed 1,419 flights and 191,006 passengers and air crew members from China were screened for the disease.
outside the airports, there were 7,812 people from 411 ships arriving from affected areas that were screened at six sea ports.
From 29 January to 21 February 2020, an accumulated number of screening people was 2,146,851 and found 68 of those people met a case definition criteria of PUI.

https://reliefweb.int/report/thailand/n ... 2-february

Funny That Thailand do not have more case or as much case as Japan and S-Korea with all those people arriving from China

[Doodoo]

There is nothing Funny about it, Mike
Thailand and other countries continue to monitor and educate their population on how to prevent the spread of the virus, wash hands, prevent yourself from sneezing and coughing in the direction of others AND if you feel ill get to a Medical Facility for treatment

There is no magical formula to follow just luck of the draw and so far Thailand is winning

[GT93]

My nearly 94 year old mother-in-law is currently in hospital in Sisaket from age related health issues. The family is telling me there's no sign of the virus at the hospital. That's fortunate as it will easily kill old girls her age.

The UK edition of The Guardian is currently very bleak on the Coronavirus. And to whip some of our readers into a frenzy, I made a donation to The Guardian last month. And it wasn't my first.

[Mike-Quebec]

I Never say it funny that you say "educate their population on how to prevent the spread of the virus, wash hands, prevent yourself from sneezing and coughing in the direction of others"

but it very funny the way you " Doodoo " interpret what people say, read again my message it not about what you say it about the report LINK !

[stattointhailand]

I don't know about anyone else but I have a heart problem with no insurance and I'm in the middle of making plans to get out of Thailand and sit it out in the uk where I have a better chance.i don't think it will come down to having insurance or a bucket full of cash.these hospitals won't be able to cope and especially with the cases that are just being called viral pneumonia.if countries like s.korea and Italy can't contain the spread how can Thailand with its floods of Chinese coming in.anyway its here but we just ain't being told the truth of the numbers.maybe the government are just ignoring the problem as they seem to do in most cases and hope this one will just blow away as one government spokesman put it last week.

Just for info mate, there are now 85 cases in UK up about 30 odd since yesterday

[vincemunday]

We just had a quite bizarre shopping experience, we were temperature checked on the way into Makro and made to use alcohol rub on our hands and the handle of the trolley.

[GT93]

I think your chances are much better in the UK Marcosteffano. If you need to be hospitalized, your chances of getting admitted would be much higher in the UK. I foresee tens of thousands of critically ill people in Thailand not being admitted to hospital. First world health systems might be able to improvise better.

[Khun Paul]

Apparently the race was cancelled by Moto GP and not the Thai authorities (hhad forum)

YES noted BUT SONGKRAN is going ahead DEPITE the Government admitting it will assist in virus transmission. Not cancelling it as it is the Peoples Festival...Excuse me ...What a crock of POO !!

[vincemunday]

Why is it poo?

[AlexO]

Why is it poo?

Vince, I believe he is refering to the excuse that because the Thai Government claim it is "the peoples festival" that it is ok to go ahead rather than cancel and lose even more tourist monies. Same as Japan, so much money involved that the Olympics are still going ahead (for now) but Italy can shut down its peoples sport, football (Seria A to play behind closed doors) I suppose a few thousand more cases of Viral Pnumonia will not really affect the Hi So's.

[Khun Paul]

Why is it poo?

Well one could say the other word, but some snowflakes may object, so POO is an acceptable word of the stuff that emanates from ones posterior

[vincemunday]

The way I book it is it’s THEIR country, THEIR festival and definitely THEIR choice.

[pipoz4444]

I found this information on Business Insider, as a comparison of SARS to COVID 19

The new Coronavirus appears to be less deadly than SARS, however, the mortality rate for SARS was 9.6%, whereas COVID-19 seems to kill between 1% and 2.3% of those infected. In essence, it's a version of SARS that spreads more easily but causes less damage,according to a Virologist at the University of Reading in the UK, on February 3.

But, some of the crucial differences between this outbreak of COVID 19 and the SARS pandemic some 17 years ago, are;
1. It took eight months for SARS to infect more than 8,000 people. COVID-19 has infected more than 75,000 people in about eight weeks.
2. One month into SARS outbreak, only five people had died. The new coronavirus had killed at least 213 people by that mark. The COVID-19 death toll surpassed that of SARS on February 8.
3. Both SARS and the new coronavirus belong to a particular virus lineage called betacoronaviruses, which can make the jump to humans and nest in our respiratory tracts. SARS and the new coronavirus both dock to the same human cell receptor, called ACE2, deep in people's lungs

Most experts think the new coronavirus' incubation period ranges from one to 14 days, although a recent study suggested it could be as long as 24 days. SARS' average incubation period, by comparison, was seven days.

Researchers traced SARS to a population of horseshoe bats in China's Yunnan province. These bats lived in a cave just 1.1 kilometer from the nearest village. SARS jumped from bats to weasel-like mammals called masked palm civets, then to humans. The spillover happened in wet markets in Guangdong, China. The most likely intermediary species for the new coronavirus are bats, pigs, civets, or pangolins (not snakes, as some researchers initially suggested). That's because these animals also have the same ACE2 receptors.

pipoz4444

[the-monk]

According to the BBC, at 11:47 this morning Thailand had 47 confirmed coronavirus cases.