Thai PM orders one month closure of worker camps in Bangkok
Saturday - June 26, 2021 7:51 am ,
Category : HEALTH
Bangkok, June 26 (IANS) Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Friday that temporary closure will be applied to specific clusters to stem domestic spreads of Covid-19.Prayut said that construction worker camps in Bangkok and surrounding provinces together with selected sites in four southern provinces will be closed down for a month effective from the upcoming Monday, the Xinhua news agency reported.He further rejected pressure to put Bangkok under a full lockdown despite increasing local infection rates.The capital has suffered by far from the highest infections among all provinces in Thailand since the beginning of the third wave.
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