Thairath Online
2 May 2022 20:53
The Ministry of Public Health reveals that the overall number of Covid-19 has decreased, except for the Isan region, some provinces are still highly infected, reiterating that vaccinations can reduce the severity of the disease, and will keep an eye out for 2-4 weeks, has pneumonia patients with intubation decreased or not?
On May 2, at the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Situation Press Center, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi Province, Dr. Chakrarat Pittayawong Anon Director of the Division of Epidemiology, Department of Disease Control, announced the situation of COVID-19 that Thailand has reported 9,331 cases today, down from a few weeks ago when there were around 20,000 cases a day. tracheal tube tends to decrease As the patients healed continued to increase. This is consistent with the NHSO registered patient data, both outpatient and home isolation (OPSI) and home treatment (HI), which last week had 498,578 cases, down from 6. -7 hundred thousand, reflecting that the situation has actually decreased 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 determine future treatment measures. Most 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 school starts as well.
“Infection situation Severely 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.
Read more…