A coronavirus cluster in Thailand grew to 10 on Wednesday amid fears scores of other Thai women connected to a hotel in a notorious Myanmar border town could be infected and may attempt to return home under the radar.
Health authorities in Bangkok were holding emergency talks on Wednesday night, an official said.
Thailand has managed to contain COVID-19 infections to just over 4,000 cases.
Its Achilles heel is an extremely porous 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) border that it shares with Myanmar, where the virus is rampant, with more than 1,000 new cases a day in recent months….