PM: Thailand Weighing New COVID-19 Restrictions Amid Big Outbreak in Samut Sakhon
[AFP] Updated at 5:33 p.m. ET on 2020-12-22 Thailand is considering imposing a strict lockdown, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha announced Tuesday, after hundreds of new coronavirus cases were confirmed among a migrant-worker cluster in one province for a third straight day, with alarming secondary transmissions detected elsewhere. In a nationally televised speech, Prayuth blamed migrants, who had entered the country illegally via the kingdom’s shuttered borders and evaded a mandatory 14-day quarantine, for the biggest surge in COVID-19 cases since the first infection was det...