The Ministry of Public Health reveals that the situation with Covid 19 is likely to decrease, but some provinces in the Northeast still have a high infection, reiterating “Omicron” if not vaccinated with a booster needle, it may cause severe symptoms and death.
Dr. Chakrarat Pittayawong-anon, MD. Director of the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, revealed the situation of COVID-19 on May 2, 2022 that Thailand has reported 9,331 cases of the virus today, down from several weeks ago when there were approximately 9,331 cases per day. Twenty thousand cases of pneumonia and intubation tend to decrease. As the patients healed continued to increase.
This is consistent with the information of infected people registered for treatment by the National Health Security Office (NHSO), both outpatient and isolated at home (OPSI) and at home treatment (HI), which last week had 498,578 cases, a decrease from 6-7 hundred thousand cases, reflecting the actual decline in the situation Of the 84 deaths, most of them were not vaccinated. are elderly and have chronic disease Northeastern, Central and Eastern There were many deaths.
Dr. Chakrarat said that reporting of deaths has been adjusted to separate reports between infected groups. pneumonia and death with groups with chronic diseases and diagnosed with COVID to be consistent with the actual infection and death situation. Both groups had different measures to reduce mortality from treatment. This will help to put in place treatment measures in the future.
The vast majority of omikron strains are asymptomatic or asymptomatic. But if not vaccinated There is also a high chance of serious illness and death. By injecting a booster needle can reduce deaths by 31 times, so we need to help bring the elderly to get the booster vaccination. Currently, only 41.5% of the injections are available, while the coverage that will help reduce widespread illness is 60% or more. For children aged 5-11 years old, parents are encouraged to bring their children to have injections before the start of the semester as well.
“Infection situation seriously ill and died also as expected As for the intubation patients, will be reduced according to the infected person and the pneumonia patient or not? Still need to follow up for another 2-4 weeks, so the level 4 alert is still being given across the country. Please avoid gatherings and risky places. because some provinces still found more infections especially in the northeastern region of more than 40 provinces with a decrease in the number of patients and tends to be stable has prepared an action plan to prepare for the endemic stage To ensure that if there is a more severe epidemic mutant will be able to cope. There must be sufficient vaccines and doctors to provide standardized preventive care,” said Dr. Chakrarat.