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Authorities in Thailand are weighing whether to impose a wider coronavirus lockdown after a major outbreak at a seafood market | AFP Asharq Al-Awsat
A coronavirus outbreak linked to a seafood market in Thailand passed 1,000 cases on Tuesday, 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.
As of early Tuesday morning, there were 1,063 confirmed positive cases out of 6,156 tested a major outbreak for a country which previously had 4,300 infections.
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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.
More Than 600 Myanmar Migrants Infected in Thai COVID-19 Outbreak
Myanmar migrant workers queue to be tested for COVID-19 at a wholesale shrimp market in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province on Dec. 19, 2020. / Office of the Myanmar Labor Attaché / Facebook
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By Nyein Nyein 21 December 2020
Some 600 Myanmar migrants working in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province are among more than 800 confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to the Talay Thai wholesale shrimp market, the site of the country’s worst outbreak so far, which was first reported last Thursday.
On Monday morning, 126 new cases were reported in Samut Sakhon, taking the total linked to the outbreak to 820 since Dec. 17. Of these, about 600 are Myanmar workers, according to U Aung Kyaw, the director of the advocacy group Migrant Workers Rights Network.