The confirmed Covid-19 caseload in Thailand soared by 382 on Monday, 360 of them migrant workers from Myanmar linked to a wholesale shrimp market in Samut Sakhon, the province bordering Bangkok on the southwestern side.
The spike in infections followed the 576 new cases recorded on Sunday. Monday’s rise was expected because of ongoing, intensive testing of thousands of migrant workers in the province’s fishing industry, mainly in the areas locked down since Saturday night.
The new infections raised the accumulated total in Thailand since the start of the outbreak to 5,289, according to the Centre for…
