67-year-old positive shrimp seller, 689 cases followed in 4 days – Newsbeast



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In test coronavirus More than 10,000 people will be displaced in Thailand following the outbreak of an outbreak linked to the larger seafood market near Bangkok, authorities said today.

In total, 689 new cases of coronavirus, related to the Mahatsai crustacean market, were recorded at a time when a saleswoman shrimp, 67 years old, tested positive on Thursday, according to the report released today by the authorities.

Most infected people Myanmar Nationals who came to work in Thailand.

The authorities ordered the Myanmar workers to remain isolated in their homes around the market.

“We quarantined them and prohibited their movement,” the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health said today, according to AMPE.

The disease control service “will track communities with a population of around 10,300,” said Tawesin Visanuyotin, a spokesman for the organization that has been fighting the epidemic.

The tests, which will be performed free of charge for migrant workers, will continue until Wednesday, he clarified.

Images posted on social media show workers in masks huddled in a queue to take the test.

“Social distancing is impossible here” found a worker from Myanmar.



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