Covid-19: Detailed info on vaccinations, hospitalisations, and provinces. The Thaiger

Covid-19: Detailed info on vaccinations, hospitalisations, and provinces

By 

Neill Fronde

Sunday, September 19, 2021 15:13

Covid-19 numbers continue to slowly fall as today's report from the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration saw 117 deaths and 13,576 new infections in the past 24 hours. 131,095 people remain under medical supervision while 12,492 people have been released from medical care in the last 24 hours, bring the total recovered from the virus to 1,330,238.

395 of the infections were uncovered within Thailand's prison system, where nearly 66,000 total Covid-19 cases have been found since April. Another 2,509 possible cases are pending after testing positive using less reliable antigen test kits, but they will not be counted in the country's official Covid-19 numbers until testing positive with an RT-PCR test.

Currently, there are 3,646 people receiving critical treatment in ICU facilities in hospitals and 768 people requiring the use of ventilators.

There have now been a total of 15,363 deaths and 1,476,477 Covid-19 infections since the beginning of the more contagious third wave of the Coronavirus beginning April 3.

OTHER COVID-19 NEWS:

• Phuket has seen infections remaining steady with one new Sandbox infection and one new death, the second of a prison inmate this week. Read the story here.
• PM Prayut Chan-o-Cha has agreed to suggest to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration to lift Covid-19 restrictions on theatres and filmmaking. Read the story here.
• The CCSA released a statement with several conflicting vaccination goals for Thailand for the month of October, with the main target to hit 50% vaccination. Read the story here.
• Over half of the prison population in the Correctional Institute for Young Offenders in Nakhon Si Thammarat has tested positive for Covid-19, causing the prison to seal off. Read the story here.

HOSPITALS & MEDICAL CARE

After a steady decline in hospitalisations and Covid-19 patients under medical care, the last few days have seen the numbers slowly climbing again. Of note, while the totals have decreased by 35,000 throughout the month and those in home and community isolation have dropped 80%, those patients in hospital care has nearly doubled since the beginning of the month.

VACCINATIONS

While vaccinations have been slow in Thailand, September has seen a fairly steady daily rate of people being administered vaccines, with daily inoculations between 700,000 and 900,000 each day aside from weekends when the figures are about halved.

With 43.6 million vaccines administered, nearly 14.3 million people are new fully vaccinated and the number of people who have received a third vaccine or booster shot is approaching 900,000.

PROVINCIAL NEWS:

While the daily provincial update information available has been spotty this week, The Thaiger is working to provide full information on provincial updates in English as soon as possible.

The 14 provinces (and the prison system which is counted separately) are included below with daily infection numbers for the last week. Totals are included for the entire pandemic and from April 1 when the third wave of Covid-19 began it's far more infectious spread throughout Thailand.

	PROVINCE	From 1 Apr	12 Sep	13 Sep	14 Sep	15 Sep	16 Sep	17 Sep	18 Sep	TOTAL
1	Bangkok	319,666	3,356	3,329	2,788	2,772	2,386	2,911	2,843	340,551
2	Samut Prakan	92,721	832	443	811	1,351	1,455	1,110	1,018	99,741
3	Samut Sakhon	82,390	506	402	542	404	338	387	288	85,257
4	Chonburi	72,554	848	650	955	835	973	935	848	78,598
5	Prisons	62,361	276	163	271	451	394	790	854	65,560
6	Nonthaburi	47,818	410	468	482	359	295	326	399	50,557
7	Pathum Thani	33,481	196	207	70	164	139	177	138	34,572
8	Nakhon Pathom	28,876	194	158	167	145	148	128	145	20,962
9	Chachoengsao	26,157	206	148	208	284	208	167	224	27,602
10	Rayong	22,654	524	647	217	680	445	136	414	20,217
11	Ratchaburi	22,795	216	299	314	137	389	50	378	125,670
12	Songkhla	22,374	396	301	272	327	470	312	370	24,322
13	Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya	23,707	221	217	206	134	80	110	106	24,781
14	Saraburi	21,412	251	233	127	218	279	329	289	23,138
15	Nakhon Ratchasima	20,989	168	212	162	178	163	200	328	22,400

SOURCE: Department of Disease Control