SAMUT SAKHON - Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha on Monday blamed a coronavirus outbreak linked to the kingdom's largest seafood market on low-paid migrant workers employed in the country's lucrative shrimp industry.
The majority of the new cases are workers from Myanmar, who toil on shrimping boats and in processing factories linked to the multi-billion-dollar Thai seafood industry. On Monday the market was ringed by barbed wire and authorities distributed food to workers quarantined inside. "We could all be infected since we don't have the information who to avoid and where not to go," he said.