Tuesday, 22 Dec 2020 06:13 PM MYT
A migrant worker has her temperature checked as she queues to talk with the public health authorities for a Covid-19 investigation at a fresh market in Bangkok, Thailand December 22, 2020. Reuters pic
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BANGKOK, Dec 22 A coronavirus outbreak linked to a seafood market in Thailand surpassed 1,000 cases today, as authorities weighed whether to introduce a wider lockdown.
Thailand has been on tenterhooks since Thursday following the positive virus test of a 67-year-old prawn seller from Mahachai market, Samut Sakhon province, about 40 minutes southwest of Bangkok.
Monday, 21 Dec 2020 03:20 PM MYT
A healthcare worker takes a nasal swab sample of a child for a Covid-19 test at a migrant community, amid the Covid-19 outbreak, in Samut Sakhon province, in Thailand December 20, 2020. Reuters pic
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BANGKOK, Dec 21 Thailand s prime minister called for calm today and said there were no immediate plans for a wider lockdown after 382 new coronavirus infections were confirmed, the majority linked to the country s worst outbreak yet.
Of the new cases, 360 were migrant workers connected to a seafood centre outbreak in Samut Sakhon, a province near the capital Bangkok, where a lockdown has been imposed and thousands of tests were being conducted to contain and track the spread.
Saturday, 19 Dec 2020 04:17 PM MYT
A man smokes as he waits for customers in a shop at Chinatown in Bangkok, Thailand December 8, 2020. ― Reuters pic
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BANGKOK, Dec 19 ― Thailand has nine new local coronavirus infections, the biggest one-day rise in local transmissions in more than seven months, health officials said today.
The nine cases are connected to a shrimp market in Samut Sakhon province, near Bangkok, where four infections were reported yesterday, officials told a briefing.
The cases started with a 67-year-old woman, who sells shrimp in the market, who was confirmed to have the infection before three of her family also tested positive.
Thai Artist’s Work Shows Political Awakening
December 15, 2020
Thai artist Yuree Kensaku poses next to her mural Bleu Blanc Rouge at the Bangkok Art Biennale in Bangkok, Thailand December 4, 2020.
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cartoon cats and birds. But it may be a sensitive subject for Thailand s
monarchy.
For artist Yuree Kensaku, the country’s political situation shapes her work. Protesters in Thailand are calling for reform of the monarchy and other changes. People have started their political awakening, said Kensaku.
The Bangkok Art Biennale is now showing her latest artwork. It combines the influences of her Thai background with her experience making art in La Rochelle, France. There, historical works of art showing times of revolution gave her the ideas she uses now.
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