Thailand’s Seafood Market in Samut Sakron With Major Covid Outbreak!
With the earlier low cases of Thailand which with just 4,000 cases and 60 deaths so far since the pandemic began. But somehow on Saturday, the authorities have announced that 548 positive cases were reported which is connected to a seafood market in Mahachai, Samut Sakhon province around 40 minutes southwest of Bangkok.
Currently, a strict lockdown and curfew were introduced around the marketing which affecting schools, stadiums, playgrounds, and shopping malls until early January 2021. While foreign workers are now being banned from leaving the province and Moe Kyaw Thu from the Raks Thai Foundation, which is coordinating testing, said it aims to screen 4,000 people over the weekend.” The population in Mahachai is roughly 70 percent Thai and 30 percent migrant workers, which means the source of the virus spreading could come from migrant workers, particularly Myanmar workers,” he said.
Hopefully, the cases have nothing to do with the current Thailand border opening to all visitors.