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Covid has hit over 500 factories
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published : 30 Jul 2021 at 14:41
9 About 1,500 workers at a textile factory in Nonthaburi province during their strike late last month, when they demanded management conduct mass Covid-19 testing after about 60 of their colleagues were infected with the virus. (Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya)
Since April 1, Covid-19 outbreaks have hit 518 factories and a total of 36,861 of their employees in 49 provinces, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.
CCSA spokesman Taweesilp Visanuyothin said on Friday that Phetchaburi province recorded the most infected workers at 4,464, followed by 3,487 in Phetchabun, 2,538 in Prachuap Khiri Khan, 2,496 in Samut Sakhon and 2,209 in Songkhla province.
Fifteen provinces each had 1,000 or more infected workers, five provinces from 501 to 999 infected factory workers and 29 provinces fewer than 500.
Pandemic still complicated in Southeast Asia as more infections, deaths recorded Update: 20-07-2021 | 07:54:06
While Thailand is setting up checkpoints to restrict mobility in 13 provinces in a bid to prevent COVID-19 from spreading from the dark-red zone, the pandemic situation has also yet to ease in other Southeast Asian countries.
People wait for their turn to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 16
Taweesilp Visanuyothin, the spokesman for the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration of Thailand, said on July 19 that the checkpoints are being built and more security personnel will man all roads linking the 13 provinces with their neighbours.
CCSA enacts travel curbs
CCSA enacts travel curbs
THAILAND: Checkpoints are being set up to restrict people’s movements in 13 ‘dark red’ zone provinces in a bid to control the severe wave of COVID-19 infections, according to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
Tuesday 20 July 2021, 09:11AM
The departure hall at Suvarnabhumi airport is almost completely deserted yesterday (July 19) after the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand banned airlines from operating fligths to and from ‘dark red’ zones, including Bangkok, on Sunday. Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul.
Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the CCSA, said checkpoints will be up and running in the 13 provinces and along roads linking the 13 provinces with their neighbours around the clock as tighter restrictions come into force today.