No deaths, 2 Sandboxers with Covid-19 in Phuket
While Thailand has begun to see a downward trend in daily infections that is hoped to continue, Phuket’s infection trend has been rising over recent weeks. A few days this week have dropped to below 200 Covid-19 but today there’s been 238 new infections reported over the past 24 hours. The province extended strict entry requirements in hopes of curbing Covid-19 further, earlier this week.
The Phuket Provincial Public Health Office reported in their daily Covid-19 situation report that medical facilities added a large number of new beds to stay ahead of increasing hospitalisation. The Covid-19 Care Centres – a sort of halfway house for those who test positive with an antigen test kit but haven’t confirmed the diagnosis with a more accurate RT-PCR test – had increased occupancy sharply in the last few days to nearly 1,000 occupants but yesterday saw a slight fall.
The rolling 7-day total has still increased, though if numbers of daily infections continue to fall, the weekly figures will decrease after a few more days. Breakdowns of Phuket data, all collected since the start of the third wave of Covid-19 on April 3, are included below by the numbers.
TOTALS
| CONDITION OF HOSPITALISED PATIENTS | |||
| TIME | DESCRIPTION | TODAY | CHANGE SINCE YESTERDAY |
| DAILY | Total new domestic daily cases (Tuesday) | 204 | -53 |
| WEEKLY | Total new cases in a rolling tally of the last 7 days | 1,467 | +15 |
| TOTAL | Total Covid-19 cases in Phuket since April 3 (not including the demographics listed below) | 4,535 | +204 |
| DEATHS | Total number of deaths in Phuket from Covid-19 since April 3 | 20 | 0 |
ANTIGEN TEST KITS
People test with antigen test kits when they are at risk, but the results are not considered 100% conclusive. If someone tests positive, they will undergo an RT-PCR test to confirm the result. The case will only be added to the official numbers after that RT-PCR test is returned positive. Those in Phuket with a positive result from an ATK are moved to a Covid-19 Care Centre for safety as they await the results of an RT-PCR test.
| DESCRIPTION | TODAY | CHANGE SINCE YESTERDAY |
| People testing positive with ATKs, unconfirmed until tested with RT-PCR tests | 29 | -18 |
| People in Covid-19 Care Centres in Phuket | 980 | -18 |
HOSPITALS & SUPERVISION
- 2,052: People currently under medical care or supervision for Covid-19 in Phuket, up 38 from yesterday
- 2,678: Total number of people released from medical care, up 126 from yesterday
| HOSPITAL BEDS | ||
| DESCRIPTION | TODAY | CHANGE SINCE YESTERDAY |
| Total hospital beds in Phuket | 2,118 | +403 |
| Occupied hospital beds | 1,497 | +160 |
| Available hospital beds | 621 | +318 |
| Hospital bed occupancy rate | 70.68% | -8.59% |
| CONDITION OF HOSPITALISED PATIENTS | |||
| DESIGNATION | DESCRIPTION | TODAY | CHANGE SINCE YESTERDAY |
| RED PATIENTS | severe Covid-19 infections | 34 | 0 |
| YELLOW PATIENTS | moderate Covid-19 infections | 316 | 0 |
| GREEN PATIENTS | mild Covid-19 symptoms | 397 | 0 |
ADDITIONAL COVID-19 INFECTIONS IN PHUKET
The official totals announced each day do not include several demographics:
- 85: Phuket Sandbox travellers who tested positive for Covid-19 sometime after landing in Phuket, up 2 from yesterday
- 42: Phuket natives infected in other provinces but moved for treatment under the “Bring Phuket People Home” programme, unchanged from yesterday
- 23: Travellers returning home from other countries and found to be infected, unchanged from yesterday
- 10: people in Phuket who were infected in other provinces, unchanged from yesterday
DAILY CASES THIS MONTH
| AUGUST | ||||||
| SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY |
| 1 36 | 2 32 | 3 21 | 4 65 | 5 33 | 6 40 | 7 40 |
| 8 81 | 9 61 | 10 37 | 11 104 | 12 33 | 13 82 | 14 109 |
| 15 49 | 16 50 | 17 43 | 18 89 | 19 129 | 20 101 | 21 126 |
| 22 124 | 23 73 | 24 156 | 25 189 | 26 169 | 27 209 | 28 210 |
| 29 162 | 30 256 | 31 257 | SEPTEMBER 1 204 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
COVID-19 INFECTIONS BY PHUKET REGION
The update for September 1 did not have the regional breakdown, so this data is for August 31 still. The data will be updated when the PPHO releases more data.
| Mueang Phuket | Kathu | Thalang |
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SOURCE: The Phuket News
