Antigen tests show 20,000+ new Covid infections per day
published : 21 Jul 2022 at 14:35
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
The country registered 2,607 new Covid cases admitted to hospital during the previous 24 hours, but government data showed an average of more than 20,000 positive antigen tests over the past week.
On Wednesday morning, the government announced 19 coronavirus-related fatalities and 2,886 hospital admissions.
All 2,607 new patients were infected inside Thailand - 15 prison inmates and the rest in the general population.
At present the health ministry is counting only those patients admitted to hospital in the daily caseload. But over the past seven days, antigen tests showed a daily average of 20,547 people tested positive for Covid-19.
As of midnight Wednesday, a total of 23,445 people were receiving Covid-19 treatment (up from 23,179 the previous day), including 11,547 in hospitals (up from 11,271). Among the remainder, 854 were in field hospitals/hospitel facilities (up from 839) and 11,196 in home/community isolation (up from 11,042).
Of those in hospital, 854 were seriously ill patients with lung inflammation (up from 851) and 382 needing ventilators (down from 394).
Vocabulary
- admission: the act of accepting somebody into a hospital for medical treatment - การรับผู้ป่วยไว้ในโรงพยาบาล
- antigen: a harmful substance that causes your body to produce antibodies to fight it - แอนติเจน, สารที่กระตุ้นการสร้างแอนติบอดี้, สารก่อภูมิต้านทาน, สิ่งแปลกปลอมที่เข้าไปในร่างกาย แล้วร่างกายจะผลิตสารซึ่งเรียกว่าแอนติบอดีขึ้นมาต่อต้าน หรือทำลายสิ่งแปลกปลอมนั้น ๆ
- inflammation: a red, painful and often swollen area in or on a part of your body - การอักเสบ
- inmate: someone who is kept in a prison, mental hospital or other institution - ผู้ถูกกักกัน, ผู้ถูกกักบริเวณในเรือนจำหรือโรงพยาบาล
- isolation: set apart from; disconnected from - แยกออกมา ตั้งอยู่เดี่ยวๆ
- ventilator (noun): a piece of equipment with a pump that helps somebody to breathe by sending air in and out of their lungs - เครื่องช่วยหายใจ
