Doctors who specialize in viruses and respiratory diseases are worried regarding the BA.2 virus spreading quickly, with hundreds of thousands of people infected per day, causing The health system cannot support it. indicates this week if the trend does not improve must be strict measures to reduce people’s outings
Today (21 Feb.22) Prof. Dr. Yong Phuworawan, head of the Center specializes in clinical virology. Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University said that the Covid-19 outbreak is on an uptrend. as already mentioned A strain that tends to go fast BA.2 is inevitable as the outbreak is on the rise in Asia. Singapore has a population ten times less than us and has more than fifteen thousand cases.
As for Japan, up to almost a hundred thousand, Korea is the same. Therefore, it is expected that there is a trend of infection with wave 5, not sure if it will be in the hundreds of thousands or not. which doesn’t want to see the numbers go up like that at all
While Prof. Dr. Nithipat Jearakul, Head of the Department of Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Posted a message via private Facebook, stating that without a word, he broke through the old record, not difficult at more than 3.3 thousand. number of critically ill patients patient wearing ventilator and the deceased that gradually broke through the resistance to raise the panel
Next week and that week should see a continuation of the latter three indicators. Because it takes 1-2 weeks for results to be seen, medical personnel who hope to go on vacation in the next one to two months should hurry now because late, may have to return the return ticket to the accommodation
However, Prof. Dr. Nithipat said that if the Covid-19 patients were allowed to spread more severely, The medical may not be able to If you don’t see a better trend this week Some measures must be tightened to reduce people’s outings.
information from Yong Poovorawan Nithipat Jearakul
image from AFP
