The government on Tuesday reported 427 new cases of the novel coronavirus, including 397 migrant workers, raising the accumulated total since the start of the pandemic to 5,716. .
At least 16 of the new transmissions of the virus occurred in Thailand.
The virus was also detected in 14 people who recently arrived from other countries.
Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said the infected workers were detected during testing in the wake of the Samut Sakhon outbreak.
Sixteen locally infected people were linked to the shrimp wholesale market at the epicentre of the new outbreak in Samut Sakhon province.
They included five in Bangkok:…
