reader Posted December 24, 2020 Posted December 24, 2020 From Coconuts Bangkok Amid rising alarm over hundreds of new coronavirus transmissions in recent days, mostly among migrant seafood industry laborers at a fresh market southwest of Bangkok, health officials said today they found another 39 related cases spread through 17 provinces. Cases have now been found in at least 23 provinces plus the capital, from Songkhla to Chiang Mai and Tak to Nakhon Ratchasima. In Bangkok, 11 people have now been found to have become infected, including another 28 infections found in provinces. Taweesilp Wissanuyothin of the Disease Control Department did not go into further detail this morning about the 11 Bangkok cases. Seven other cases were also detected in state quarantine. At today’s news conference, Taweesilp urged the public against xenophobia. “Please do not forget that migrant workers help drive our country’s economy, whether they are legal or not,” he said. Mahachai is home to a large population of workers from Myanmar, where an outbreak has been raging since August. vinapu 1 Quote
