One of Thailand’s largest seafood markets located southwest of Bangkok has been shut down after a vendor there was confirmed to have COVID-19.
Health officials today ordered the Mahachai Market in Samut Sakhon province to close three days for cleaning after a 67-year-old stall owner was confirmed to have been infected at the sprawling market. It comes nearly a week after a seventh case of local transmission involving medical personnel was linked to a dirty quarantine doorknob.
The source of the vendor’s infection is still unknown, but many who work and live in what is Thailand’s Cannery Row come from Myanmar, where a major outbreak has been underway for several months. The female vendor has not left the area where she lives and works, let alone traveled outside the kingdom.
The last known case of transmission in the wild came Dec. 4 when a 30-year-old Chiang…
