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10,000 to be tested after Samut Sakhon outbreak spreads to Bangkok

Migrant workers from Myanmar stand behind razor wire blocking the entrance to the Central Shrimp Market linked to an outbreak of Covid-19, in Muang district of Samut Sakhon on Sunday. (Photo by Arnun Chonmahatrakool)

Thailand confirmed 576 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, including 516 migrant worker cases linked to the outbreak in Samut Sakhon announced the day before, the government said, before additional cases were found in Nakhon Pathom.

The new cases include 19 locally transmitted cases in Bangkok and in the neighbouring province of Samut Sakhon, now locked down, where the 516 inflections were also found.

All of them were linked to a shrimp market in Samut Sakhon, according to a statement from the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). 

There were also 41 imported cases. 

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