Monday: 382 new Covid cases

published : 21 Dec 2020 at 15:52

ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters

People queue to get tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon on Saturday after cases of local infections were detected and linked to a vendor at the market. (AFP file photo)

The number of Covid-19 cases in Thailand soared by 382 on Monday, 360 of them migrant workers from Myanmar linked to a wholesale shrimp market in Samut Sakhon.

The spike in infections followed the 576 new cases recorded on Sunday. Monday's rise was expected because of testing of thousands of migrant workers, mainly in the areas locked down since Saturday night.

The new infections raised the total in Thailand since the start of the outbreak to 5,289, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

More cases linked to the Central Shrimp Market are expected.

The CCSA urged all workers from Myanmar to come out to be tested, including those who sneaked across the border into Thailand. Illegal migrants will not be punished, they said.

Vocabulary

case: a particular situation or a situation of a particular type - กรณี, เหตุการณ์, สถานการณ์
illegal: against the law - ผิดกฎหมาย, นอกกฎหมาย
migrant worker: someone who travels to another place or country in order to find work - คนงานต่างถิ่น
outbreak: the sudden start of a disease - การระบาดของโรค
punish: to make somebody suffer because they have broken the law or done something wrong - ทำโทษ
sneak (verb): (past: snuck) to go somewhere secretly, trying to avoid being seen - เดินหลบ,เดินลับ ๆ ล่อ ๆ
spike: a sudden increase - การพุ่งพรวดขึ้น

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