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Thailand is considered an exhibition nation in terms of containment and control of Covid-19. Now there is again a mood of alarm. Hundreds of people tested positive for the virus in an industrial suburb of Bangkok. This despite the strict protection measures in the country and the borders, which remain practically closed. The Thai government quickly found a scapegoat: Guest workers who entered illegally are said to have introduced the virus.
Thai Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul (54) blames migrants from nearby Myanmar for the steepest rise in infections since the start of the pandemic. On Saturday 548 people tested positive for the virus in the Bangkok suburb of Samut Sakhon. Samut Sakhon is the center of Thailand’s fishing industry. Thousands of guest workers from Myanmar arrive there on fishing tractors or are employed in factories there and, according to Anutin, have brought the virus from their homeland.
A night curfew lockdown will be applied throughout the province of the same name until April 3. Residents cannot leave the exclusion zone either. Because it can be assumed that many more people are already infected, according to authorities, 43 percent of all those tested were carriers of the virus on Saturday.
Soon to be quarantined at the golf club
For weeks, Thai authorities and security groups have been trying to secure the nearly 2,500-kilometer-long border between the two countries as tightly as possible. In northern Chiang Mai, Thai women working in a hotel across the border had brought the virus to Thailand. Countless migrants from Myanmar trying to cross the border illegally have also been caught. Ancient Burma is considered a crown hot spot. Now, the authorities have resolutely taken immediate precautions to prevent a major outbreak in Bangkok.
Thailand is in the process of gradually reopening the country to tourism. Even travelers from Switzerland, although this is considered a risk country, can enter again. This in compliance with a strict approval process. The kingdom tries to distinguish itself as a dream destination in the days of Corona. Luxury hotels offer exquisite quarantine programs. Quarantine should soon also be possible at the golf club, including daily golf. (kes)
