Samut Sakhon’s Major Human Smuggler Arrested
A Thai woman, 45, was arrested for sending illegal Myanmar migrants to the Central Shrimp Market of Samut Sakhon province, the epicenter of the new COVID-19 wave in the country.
A Thai woman, 45, was arrested for sending illegal Myanmar migrants to the Central Shrimp Market of Samut Sakhon province, the epicenter of the new COVID-19 wave in the country.
The authorities ordered the Central Shrimp Market to remain closed until the facilities there and at the nearby migrant dormitory are upgraded to ensure sanitation and hygiene practices.
The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will change the pattern of COVID-19 tests in Samut Sakhon province where there are a large number of infected people because ongoing tests are costly.
The COVID-19 Information Center reported 756 new COVID-19 cases and the total rose to 16,221.
The seventh field hospital of the province opened and more of such facilities will be set up as active case finding is detecting more COVID-19 patients.
Samut Sakhon province yesterday reported 914 new cases, mostly detected in active case finding.
Samut Sakhon has launched a new round of mass Covid-19 testing for migrant workers at the Central Shrimp Market ahead of the planned market reopening next week.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had a video conference with a deputy governor, disease control team and officials of Samut Sakhon to follow up the COVID-19 situation in the province as the number of infected people was rising there.
In Samut Sakhon, where a large number of migrant workers were infected with Covid-19 in the new round of the outbreak, 180 Myanmar migrants on Monday left the field hospital, set up inside a sports stadium.
Ye Yan Aung, labor attaché at the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, visited the compound of the Wattana Factory project in Phan Thai Norasing sub-district of Muang district, Samut Sakhon, to inspect the construction of a 1,000-bed field hospital to treat COVID-19 patients.
Thai Union Group PCL (TU) insisted that its products are safe although its workers were infected with COVID-19.
Talaythai, the country’s largest market of aquatic products, on Rama II Road in Muang district of Samut Sakhon province reopened today.