05 Aug, 2021
The Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) marked a record 65 new local COVID-19 infections on the island yesterday (Aug 4), bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 1,306.
The PPHO report also marked four new Phuket Sandbox arrivals testing positive for COVID-19, and yet another death attributed to COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in Phuket attributed to COVID-19 since Apr 3 to 14.
Phuket suffered a COVID death just yesterday, as well as three COVID deaths just last week, on July 29, on July 26 and on July 25.
The 65 new local infections bring the total number of new local infections on the island in the past seven days to 278, as follows:
The current total of 1,306 infected in Phuket since Apr 3 does not include nine people infected with COVID-19 in other provinces and four returning from other countries and testing positive.
The current Phuket tally also does not include 24 COVID patients brought back to Phuket under the “Bring Phuket people home” policy, or the 43 Phuket Sandbox arrivals who have tested positive for the virus after landing on the island since the Sandbox scheme began on July 1.
According to the PPHO COVID report for yesterday, 452 people were now under medical care or supervision, with a total of 888 people discharged from medical care for COVID infection since Apr 3.
The PPHO daily COVID Situation report is now presented in a format reporting the number of hospital beds available for COVID patients on the island.
The report yesterday marked that Phuket currently has 770 beds in total available for patients, with 402 beds occupied, and the remaining 398 beds still available.
The report also marked that of the 402 patients currently receiving medical care, 18 were designated as ‘Red patients’, 204 were designated ‘Yellow’ patients and the remaining 180 were designated ‘Green’ patients.
The CCSA has classified the seriousness of COVID infections according to the three colours as follows:
Green
Yellow
Red
