BANGKOK, July 20 (TNA) — The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will consider resuming the import of migrant workers on July 22 while expressing confidence in disease control in Rayong and Bangkok.
CCSA spokesman Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin said CCSA would consider the labor import because employers were demanding migrant workers.
He also said that the COVID scare in Rayong and Bangkok following the arrival of an Egyptian solider and a Sudanese girl who were infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prompted people to increasingly use the Thaichana check-in and checkout application.
According to Dr Taweesin, 6,501 people in Rayong were tested and 6,287 of them tested negative for COVID-19. Test results had yet to be announced for 214 others. In Bangkok, 364 were tested and all of them were free of the disease. The Sudanese case in Bangkok was closed.
The CCSA spokesman said the Foreign Ministry was arranging for the returns of about 600 Thai people a day and that there were enough quarantine facilities to handle the traffic. (TNA)
