Thailand to test 10,000 after virus outbreak linked to seafood market

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Nearly 700 new infections have been linked to Mahachai market and port since a 67-year-old female prawn seller tested positive.

Thailand will test more than 10,000 people for coronavirus after an outbreak linked to its biggest seafood market, officials said Sunday, December 20.since a 67-year-old female prawn seller tested positive on Thursday, December 17 – most cases among Myanmar workers who toil in the kingdom's multi-billion-dollar seafood industry.

"It is impossible to social distance here," said Kyaw Zay Yar, a Myanmar worker helping a local foundation coordinate testing. He said anti-Myanmar sentiment had been shared on social media – with Thais accusing the workers of importing the highly infectious disease. "Myanmar migrants are feeling uneasy as well... we are just trying to calm each other down," he said.Rights groups say Mahachai's shrimping and seafood industry is fueled by a low-paid migrant workforce, subjected to poor working and cramped living conditions.

 

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