The PPHO daily report for Feb 17, marked as accurate as of 8pm last night, was posted online at 11:23pm.
The report marked 54 new infections among Sandbox tourist arrivals and 27 new infections among Test & Go tourists, but no new infections among other international arrivals.
The report marked no new deaths attributed to COVID-19, leaving the total number of COVID deaths recorded so far this year at 20.
Officials marked 10 COVID deaths in Phuket in January, six in December, 18 in November, 44 in October and 55 COVID deaths in September.
Meanwhile, the 534 new local infections reported brings the total number of new local infections reported on the island in the past seven days to 3,436, as follows:
- Feb 11 - 478 new cases
- Feb 12 - 462 new cases
- Feb 13 - 486 new cases
- Feb 14 - 470 new cases
- Feb 15 - 496 new cases
- Feb 16 - 510 new cases
- Feb 17 - 534 new cases
The report marked three people infected with COVID-19 in other provinces before entering Phuket since Jan 1, as well as eight returning from other countries and testing positive, and zero COVID patients brought back to Phuket under the “Bring Phuket people home”.
The report also marked 5,376 Phuket Sandbox arrivals who have tested positive for the virus after landing on the island since Jan 1, and 956 Test & Go tourists who have tested positive since Jan 1.
According to the report for Feb 17, there are 5,909 people under medical care or supervision, 190 more than the 5,719 reported yesterday.
The report also marked 425 people being discharged from medical care for COVID infection yesterday ‒ but did not give a total for the number of patients released from medical care since Jan 1.
The report recorded 307 people suspected of being infected with COVID-19 after testing positive by antigen test kit (ATK), while the total number of people reported as currently being held at ‘COVID-19 Care Centers’ across the island decreased from 533 to 517.
According to the report for Feb 17, there are still 16 ‘Red’ patients (zero change), 555 ‘Yellow’ patients (+9) and 102 ‘Green’ patients (-1) in care.
A further 1,034 people who tested positive for COVID-19 were at ‘hospitels’ (-17), and 532 were designated to recover in “Community Isolation“ (-1).
The report also marked that of 3,551 hospital beds in total available (-55), 2,239 were occupied (-10).