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The Samut Sakhon Provincial Seafood Market is believed to have contributed to the spread of COVID-19 in Thailand. In the photo: Fish trade in a market in Narathiwat province, southern Thailand, on December 28 – Photo: AFP
December 24, 2020 is probably the dark Christmas that covers all of Thailand. It seems that after almost 3 months of effective control of the COVID-19 epidemic, the golden pagoda has registered almost 700 new cases of illegal migrant workers from Myanmar at a seafood market in the province of Samut Sakhon, a very nearby province. the capital city of Bangkok.
Currently, the epidemic has spread to more than 33 provinces and cities across the country, of which Bangkok and Rayong have the highest number of COVID-19 cases to date.
The second outbreak returned just after the political protests and in Thailand subsided. The whole country happily welcomes the year 2021, when it is most prosperous, everything collapses.
The end of the year parties have been canceled, shopping malls like Siam Square have to close, people’s lives are turned upside down at the last minute, and of course it does not exclude Vietnamese living and working. In Bangkok.
Arriving in Thailand in mid-November 2019, I went through many ups and downs with this country. Working for a US based company, I clearly feel the impact that COVID-19 has.
Not only does it cause health problems, but the pandemic also seriously affected the economy and our jobs in the fields. My company has been forced to lay off more than 1,500 employees around the world to save costs, and indeed I feel fortunate to be chosen by the company to keep.
With the company’s pay recipients, as well as Thai labor law, I am somewhat more fortunate than most blue-collar, business-trade workers in this country. The arrival of COVID-19 was when many Vietnamese shops and restaurants in Thailand struggled because the government ordered the closure and a curfew was introduced.
Many Vietnamese workers fell into a situation where they could not walk or stay. Registration tickets for flights from March to 2020 will take 5 months to return. Fortunately, Thailand is kind enough to automatically renew residency for all foreigners stuck in the country and wait for their flight to return home.
And then the epidemic situation in Thailand was strictly controlled, from a few cases to no more community cases. That raises hope for people far from home, with the belief that flights in 2021 will reopen, so that everyone can return home and be reunited with their families. But all this now seems to return to the starting point.
I went back to my home work days, deeply defining the second Tet vacation away from my hometown, with an even greater concern that Thailand would once again be closed to the world. Life for the Vietnamese in Thailand once again had its ups and downs.
Anyway, honestly, I still have hope and I think Thailand will control the translation again, because it has won once.
