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Outbreak spreads to at least 821 cases in 7 Thai provinces. Here’s the latest.

Months of lax attitudes and false alarms have ended with a genuine outbreak southwest of Bangkok which has now spread to at least seven provinces, including the capital.

A whopping 821 cases have now been linked to the Mahachai Market in Samut Sakhon province, health officials announced just before noon.  North of the capital in Saraburi province, three people, all related, were confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 by health officials this morning after visiting a large seafood market where the virus has ripped through dormitories mostly housing migrant workers from Myanmar. The outbreak has now reached Bangkok where four infections have now been found, as well as Samut Prakan, Nakhon Pathom, Suphanburi and Ratchaburi provinces.

The total number of cases is in flux as health officials are conducting mass testing on upward of 10,000 people there. The total caseload…

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