Originally Posted by
250 kts
Do you really believe the govt figures though? Only 3000 cases and 56 deaths bearing in mind it was the first foreign country outside China to report a death.
Thailand responded really well to this; lockdown, curfew, contact tracing, ban on passenger flights, ban on foreign tourists, medical tests for arrivals (before ban) and other measures were put in place very quickly and have remained. In fact most Asian countries seem to have done better than many western countries, perhaps because of previous experience with SARS or maybe a lack of complacency.
No country’s figures will ever be totally accurate but they are by and large a function of that government’s response so while their totals could be double or treble what’s reported it’s highly unlikely they are approaching US, UK or Brasil levels of infection and deaths.