“Doctor Thira” warns to protect carefully, fearing that the number of daily infections in May is twice as high as April.
Dr. Teera Woratanarat, Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University Post a message via Facebook states that on April 13, 2022, it has surpassed 500 million people, yesterday around the world added 1,001,876 people, 2,919 additional deaths, totaling 500,806,429 people, totaling 6,208,916 deaths, the top 5 people who The most infected are South Korea, France, Germany, Italy and Australia.
Yesterday, the number of new infections had countries from Europe and Asia occupy seven of the top 10 and 15 of the world’s top 20.
The number of new infections every day in the world now. from Asia and Europe together accounted for 87.87% of the world’s population, while the number of deaths accounted for 75.67%.
New infections in Asia accounted for 31.84 percent of the world’s population, while the number of deaths rose to 18.73 percent.
epidemic situation in Thailand
Yesterday, the number of new infections, including ATK, was the 7th highest in the world and 3rd in Asia.
While the number of deaths yesterday 9th highest in the world
Yesterday’s death toll in Thailand accounted for nearly one-fifth of all reported deaths in Asia.
Update from WHO
Recently, the World Health Organization published the WHO Weekly Epidemiological Update on April 12, 2022, a few hours ago.
The number of new infections worldwide in the past week dropped 24% and the number of deaths dropped 18% compared to the previous week.
while looking at the Southeast Asia region The number of new infections decreased by 8%, the number of deaths decreased by 15%.
However, if we look at Thailand from the Worldometer data this morning, the number of new infections has dropped by 7%, although it seems happy that the number of weekly new infections has decreased. But it’s just an official RT-PCR report number only. If we include the ATK amount, we’ll find that Weekly new infections increased by 2.57%, while the number of deaths continued to increase by 7%.
Outbreaking species
The WHO reports that Omicron remains the dominant strain in the global outbreak, accounting for 99.2% of the total, with less than 0.1% of the delta strain and around 0.8% of other strains.
For Omicron, the different subspecies Included in the surveillance system are BA.1, BA.2, BA.3, BA.4, BA.5, and also hybrids such as XE (caused by crossing between BA.1 and BA.2).
The BA.4 and BA.5 strains were genetically altered both at the spine and outside the spine. Some sites, such as L452R and F486V, may result in the virus becoming more immune to it. Both subspecies are characterized by the absence of 69-70 locations at the spines, resulting in an S Gene Target Failure (SGTF), which is likely to be used to distinguish BA.2 from RT-PCR.
look at the Thai situation
Lessons from Songkran and New Year over the past year If not protected After Songkran, the number of infections will increase by 2-3 times. At the end of May, the number of infections per day may be twice as high as at the end of April.
The news this morning saw eating and drinking at night at restaurants in Khao San Road. And water guns are sold to tourists. May have to help each other to warn to be careful. both about not wearing a mask eating and drinking together including playing in the water which will have the opportunity to spread infection easily and will affect the work or operation of various stores
As with other tourist attractions in the country, including traveling back to their homeland to see their families and to visit the elders of the people in different provinces
Wearing a mask is the most important because it is the last line of defense
Covid…infected…not just you.
Covids But it will result in long-term covid problems.
wish you happiness and safe on Songkran day
