Free tests for at-risk groups as PM plans illegal migrant smuggling crackdown
Free tests for at-risk groups as PM plans illegal migrant smuggling crackdown
THAILAND: The Department of Health Service Support yesterday (Dec 23) instructed private hospitals nationwide to provide free COVID-19 tests for at-risk groups.
Thursday 24 December 2020, 08:19AM
Officials stop a car at a checkpoint set up to block illegal immigration, in Sangkhla Buri district of Kanchanaburi yesterday (Dec 23). Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen.
Director-general of the department Thares Krassanairawiwong said a new wave of COVID-19 infections in Samut Sakhon last week sparked grave concern among local residents as well as those who had visited at-risk areas.