Only 20 international travelers, out of over 22,000, reportedly found with Covid-19 infections on the first seven days of reopening, CCSA announces

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National – More than 22,000 visitors have traveled to Thailand upon the reopening of the country to vaccinated foreign tourists from selected countries. Of that, only 20 of them were found positive with the Covid-19 Coronavirus, CCSA (Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration) Deputy spokesperson Apisamai Srirangsan announced today, November 8th. The deputy spokesperson reported that […]

Only 20 international travelers, out of over 22,000, reportedly found with Covid-19 infections on the first seven days of reopening, CCSA announces
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[Zeb]

This bodes well for the continued return of tourism to Thailand, both from the Thai viewpoint and the low chances of catching Covid on the flight.

Mind you these numbers should be low. Fully vaxxed as well as PCR test prior to flight and only the test on arrival indicating a very small number of positive results in 22,000.

Statistically very nominal, almost insignificant but it is Delta.

Crack on !

PS - It does pose the question if Thai Authorities will at least trial the Rapid Result Tests which are said to be 99.9% accurate, if memory serves me ? 

Hopefully, before to long.

Edited November 8, 2021 by Zeb

[Fired Up Paul]

1 hour ago, Zeb said:

Mind you these numbers should be low. Fully vaxxed as well as PCR test prior to flight and only the test on arrival indicating a very small number of positive results in 22,000.

Statistically very nominal, almost insignificant but it is Delta.

Crack on !

PS - It does pose the question if Thai Authorities will at least trial the Rapid Result Tests which are said to be 99.9% accurate, if memory serves me ? 

Hopefully, before to long.

These infections are not necessarily amongst the vaxxed as Thais aren't required to be vaxxed to return and there are 7 day and 10 day quarantines available for un-vaxxed too.

Your main point about rapid tests remains valid, especially considering all of the infrastructure and resources devoted to opening up safely in it's current form.

Within a context of 7.5k daily cases, it makes much more sense to have one or 2 rapid antigen tests instead of PCR tests and (even 1 day) hotel quarantine. 

Adding even 10 cases a day to 7.5k cases makes next to zero difference to the overall numbers and most non-mongler visitors will wait (or choose alternative locations) before visiting countries that require jumping through too many hoops. 

[Thomaz73]

2 hours ago, 1500B said:

These infections are not necessarily amongst the vaxxed

True. The first handful were not jab'd according to Barrow a few days ago.

[OKAY]

If you were vaccinated and then exposed to Covid virus, wouldn't you test positive for the hours it'd take your immune system to kill the viruses you were exposed to?  You would test positive now but ten or twelve hours later your immune system killed them all. Doing its job. So the timing penalty is ten days in hospital ?  You aren't asymptomatic ; you are cured by your antibodies already.

[Fired Up Paul]

1 hour ago, OKAY said:

If you were vaccinated and then exposed to Covid virus, wouldn't you test positive for the hours it'd take your immune system to kill the viruses you were exposed to?

There haven't been any studies recording the chain of events you describe.

IIRC, Covid will normally start in the nose, then the throat, then make it's way into your system which is when the vax can kill it, or not. There are a lot of variables at play but the timeframe is said to be 3-4 days to become infectious.

So that's why they ask for 2 x PCR Tests however, it is very intrusive and expensive so it turns lots of tourists away (who each present micro risks if they are vaccinated x 2 or 3).

[Ohyesuare]

2 hours ago, OKAY said:

If you were vaccinated and then exposed to Covid virus, wouldn't you test positive for the hours it'd take your immune system to kill the viruses you were exposed to?  You would test positive now but ten or twelve hours later your immune system killed them all. Doing its job. So the timing penalty is ten days in hospital ?  You aren't asymptomatic ; you are cured by your antibodies already.

If you have a "breakthrough infection" then the only difference is that you are highly likely to not get sick or as sick and an even higher chance of not dying from it. From what I've read, you would still test positive for the same length of time.