Chiang Mai panics after woman evades quarantine, spreads COVID-19

People who have visited certain Chiang Mai venues are advised by health authorities to quarantine for 14 days after a number of people have contracted COVID-19 from a 29-year-old woman who entered Thailand from Myanmar illegally and did not isolate herself. 

At least two people who came into contact with the woman have tested positive for the virus and an estimated 300 are considered at risk after the unidentified Thai woman crossed into Chiang Rai province via Myanmar’s Tachileik border crossing in a public van on Nov. 23, evading mandatory two-week quarantine. She then traveled on to Chiang Mai.

There’s anxiety the woman could prove a “super spreader” since she did not report her return to the authorities and skipped state quarantine. Chiang Rai Gov. Prajon Pratsakul on Monday morning confirmed that two people were being treated at the Chiang Rai…