Thailand Increases Land Border Surveillance to Curb Virus Risks
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Thailand has stepped up its border surveillance to reduce illegal crossings of migrant workers who risk spreading coronavirus infections, according to Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha.
Myanmar, Thailand’s neighbor and a top source of migrant labors for the Southeast Asian nation, has been reporting a spike in new infections in recent weeks. Thailand has now gone almost 100 days without any local cases with the cumulative infections at 3,417 and 58 fatalities, Health Ministry data showed.