Lockdown worries rife
published : 22 Dec 2020 at 04:05
27 A worker pushes a cart at Talay Thai market in Samut Sakhon. The World Bank says the economy will suffer in a second lockdown. Arnun Chonmahatrakool
Thailand s GDP could see a steep contraction similar to the second-quarter decline if nationwide lockdown measures are imposed to contain a fresh round of outbreaks, says the World Bank.
Should a new round of infections result in a lockdown in Bangkok or across Thailand, overall economic activities would be impeded, said Kiatipong Ariyapruchya, senior country economist for Thailand at the World Bank.
Under this scenario, domestic consumption would diminish and cause the unemployment rate to edge up, with Thailand s GDP nudging lower as a result, said Mr Kiatipong.
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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.
Migrants likely spread bug, says Anutin
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Thousands of workers from Myanmar based in seafood hub of Samut Sakhon
published : 19 Dec 2020 at 05:44
110 Talad Klang Kung, the Central Shrimp Market where the infected vendor worked in Samut Sakhon, has been closed for a thorough cleaning for three days. (Samut Sakhon Provincial Public Relations Office photo)
Migrant workers are suspected of being the source of the spread of Covid-19 in Samut Sakhon, as three close relatives of an infected shrimp wholesaler in the province have also tested positive for the virus.
Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said that officials may have to trace and test up to 10,000 people in the area to find out how the woman contracted the virus.
17 Officials clean the shrimp market in Samut Sakhon on Friday. The market was ordered closed for three days after a 67-year-old stall owner was found infected with Covid-19. (Photo: Samut Sakhon PR office Facebook page)
Three close relatives of a Covid-19 infected shrimp wholesaler at a market in Samut Sakhon have also tested positive for the virus.
The shrimp market, meanwhile, has been closed for thorough cleansing.
The 67-year-old vendor s 95-year-old bed-ridden mother, her elder sister, aged 73, and her sister-in-law, 57, were found to be also infected, Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn, director general of the Communicable Diseases Division, said on Friday.
The woman owns a stall at the