BANGKOK, April 29
(TNA) – A COVID-19 information hotline now offers
service in three more languages for migrant workers from Myanmar, Laos and
Cambodia in Thailand.
Director of the Disease Control Department Suwannachai
Wattanayingcharoenchai announced the additions of three languages to the COVID-19
hotline on Wednesday.
From May 1, hundreds of thousands of migrant
workers can access to essential information and health guidelines from COVID-19
Migrant Hotline by dialing 1422.
At the press briefing, World Health Organization Representative
Dr Daniel Kertesz commented Thailand had been successful in containing the
virus with appropriate and timely measures.
The new hotline service made sure that over 2.7
million migrant workers were not left behind, he said.
Migrant workers were vulnerable to the disease because the
nature of their works made it difficult to practice social distancing, he
said. Providing guidelines via hotline
could improve effectiveness of disease control, said Dr Kertesz. (TNA)
