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.
it was a poor choice of words. that word and the negative attitudes that come with it should be left in the 20th century and i m sorry this has shifted our way from comprehensive immigration reform. joining me now on the phone paul chav chavez, president of the cesar chavez foundation. thank you for joining us today. let me start by saying your father a well-known icon of latino civil rights. he fought for migrant workers rights. today is his 86th birthday. when you hear slurs like that which have not been used often certainly in public in recent years, where would your father view where we are today as a n country in addressing latino civil rights issues? you know, my father always reminded us of the progress that had been made and then he would let us know there s a lot more work to be done. he really believed in the greatness of this country and the ability of this country and its citizens to correct wrongs.