A Thai pickup truck (right) unloads goods to a lorry from Myanmar as border trade resumes in Mae Sot district of Tak province on Monday. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)
TAK: Cross-border cargo trade resumed over the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot on Monday morning after Covid-19 restrictions were eased.
The lockdown imposed on two communities in the district will be lifted on Tuesday morning
Movement of cargo between Thailand and Myanmar over the bridge, at Ban Wang Ta Khian in tambon Tha Sai Luat, was suspended and two Mae Sot communities, Masjid Madihah and Ban Thung Thong, placed under lockdown after several coronavirus cases were found in Mae Sot district.
Provincial governor Pongrat Piromrat said the decision to resume cargo shipments from Monday and to lift the lockdown on Tuesday was…
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