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More Than 600 Myanmar Migrants Infected in Thai COVID-19 Outbreak
Myanmar migrant workers queue to be tested for COVID-19 at a wholesale shrimp market in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province on Dec. 19, 2020. / Office of the Myanmar Labor Attaché / Facebook
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By Nyein Nyein 21 December 2020
Some 600 Myanmar migrants working in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province are among more than 800 confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to the Talay Thai wholesale shrimp market, the site of the country’s worst outbreak so far, which was first reported last Thursday.
On Monday morning, 126 new cases were reported in Samut Sakhon, taking the total linked to the outbreak to 820 since Dec. 17. Of these, about 600 are Myanmar workers, according to U Aung Kyaw, the director of the advocacy group Migrant Workers Rights Network.