Thailand tracking 200 people as infected returnees skip Covid-19 quarantine

Mon, Nov 30, 2020 - 3:44 PM

Thailand has strict measures and border controls to keep the coronavirus at bay having kept its cases to less than 4,000 and deaths at 60, although its tourism-reliant economy has suffered badly.

PHOTO: AFP

[BANGKOK] Thailand was racing to track down about 200 people in its northern provinces on Monday to stop a potential coronavirus outbreak, after three Thai nationals entered the country illegally from Myanmar and tested positive days later.

Three women bypassed immigration checks and...

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