Myanmar’s Migrants Face Discrimination Amid Surging COVID-19 in Thailand
Myanmar embassy officials led by Minister-Counselor U Maw Ba La arranges to transfer the Myanmar migrants–who tested COVID-19 positive and were quarantined previously at home–to the temporary field hospital in Mahachai’s football ground on January 8, 2021. / Myanmar Labour Attaché Office / Facebook
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By Nyein Nyein 9 January 2021
Less than a month after Thailand’s leaders blamed Myanmar migrant workers for the latest COVID-19 outbreak in Samut Sakhon’s wholesale seafood market, discrimination has become a part of Myanmar migrants’ daily lives in everything from transportation to banking.
Ever since Dec. 17 when a 67-year-old Thai vendor working in Mahachai’s shrimp wholesale market tested positive for COVID-19, the market, where many Myanmar migrants work, has been in lockdown. In news reports over the following days, Thailand’s health minister and then prime minister accused illega