Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin announces the results of Covid-19 active testing at factories in Samut Sakhon province, at Government House in Bangkok on Wednesday. (Screenshot)
Health officials have taken samples from more than 100,000 factory workers during active Covid-19 testing in Samut Sakhon province so far, and about 7,000 of them were positive.
Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, announced the figures on Wednesday.
Most of the tested workers were at nine big factories, four of which each had 10,000 or more employees. He said 26-27% of workers at some factories were positive for Covid-19.
Officials were also isolating factory workers in good health from the general population to ensure the disease was contained within their workplaces, he said.
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