Thailand’s New COVID-19 Outbreak: Myanmar Migrants Mustn’t Be Scapegoated
Myanmar migrant workers return from Thailand via the Mae Sot-Myawaddy border post in July amid COVID-19. / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 22 December 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 that has infected hundreds of Myanmar migrants working in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province, southwest of Bangkok, is now the kingdom’s worst. Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed health authorities to come up with a working plan in case the country needs to go into full lockdown. Already, worrying signs are emerging that the Myanmar migrant population in Thailand will be targeted and discriminated against.