Thai health minister wants book thrown at ‘selfish’ people sneaking in with COVID-19

The highest health official today asked the authorities to prosecute three women accused of putting hundreds at risk and potentially igniting a COVID-19 outbreak by illegally entering the country and dodging quarantine.

Anutin this morning said he’s asked provincial governors in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai to take action against the women, who visited a number of crowded venues despite knowing they had COVID-19. 

“This incident shouldn’t have happened, but it did because of the selfishness of only a few people causing trouble to Thais,” Anutin Charnvirakul said Tuesday, referring to the three unidentified women, who worked together in Myanmar and crossed illegally. 

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He said the women’s actions could have violated the Communicable Disease and Immigration acts.

“I asked officials of the…