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Two more cases in Bangkok, both linked to Samut Sakhon

Myanmar migrants’ children ride in the sidecar of a motorcycle in the area under lockdown in Muang district of Samut Sakhon on Sunday. (Photo: Arnun Chonmahatrakool)

Two more coronavirus infections have been reported in Bangkok, and both had recently visited the Central Shrimp Market in Samut Sakhon.

The market in tambon Mahachai of Samut Sakhon’s Muang district is the source of a Covid-19 outbreak which has spread to several other provinces, including neighbouring Bangkok.

Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration spokesman, announced the two new cases on Monday, confirming that both were linked to the market but offering scant other details.

He said one of the two patients had worked at the shrimp market and lived in Bang Khunthian district of Bangkok. The other was in hospital in…

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