Hundreds of construction workers employed by a company owned by the nation’s top health official have contracted the coronavirus and been sealed inside their metro Bangkok workplace.
The latest outbreak to rip through Thailand’s migrant worker population is in Nonthaburi’s Soi Phibunsongkram 7, which was sealed under order of Gov. Suchin Chaichumsak after more than 500 workers tested positive. The Burmese, Cambodian and Thai workers work for Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction, the construction conglomerate owned by the family of Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who once served as president.
Among the 515 infected were 43 Thai, 207 Cambodian and 265 Burmese workers. Most were asymptomatic, Suchin said, but he fears more might have been contracted COVID-19. They accounted for over half of the nearly 1,000-strong workforce living there.
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