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Province holds 4,000 workers

A customer buys prawns at a makeshift market inside Kasetsart University in Bangkok. The university opens its campus to farmers to sell their prawns to help shore up the oversupply caused by the current Covid-19 scare. Chanat Katanyu

Permanent secretary for health, Kiatiphum Wongrajit, on Tuesday expressed confidence that authorities in Samut Sakhon will be able to bring the spread of Covid-19 under control in the next few weeks, adding that around 4,000 workers living at the epidemic centre have been detained for over 10 days, meaning they are unlikely to spread the disease to others in the province.

The country is now facing a new wave of Covid-19 after a 67-year-old female stall owner at the Central Shrimp Market in Samut Sakhon province tested positive for the virus on Dec 17. The market, crowded…

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