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Tak refugee tests positive

Tak refugee tests positive

Camp locked down after Myanmar man contracts Covid-19

Officials inspect the Ban Um Piam refugee camp in tambon Khiri Rat of Phop Phra district, Tak, on Saturday. (Photo by Assawin Pinitwong)

Local authorities on Saturday put a refugee camp in Tak’s Phop Phra district under lockdown after a Myanmar national there tested positive for Covid-19.

Phuwadon Kaoklueng, deputy chief of Phop Phra district said the measures are being implemented after a 48-year-old refugee named Soga Ne, 48, who had sneaked into Myanmar and back into the camp via a natural border, exhibited signs of infection including a fever and was tested at the camp’s medical unit.

There are 10 people believed to have been in close contact with Ne and they are being…

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