Thailand Considers More Lockdowns as Seafood Workers Hit by Virus

  • Government seeking 10,000 people with ties to Covid-19 cluster
  • About 1,000 new cases found, mostly migrant staff from Myanmar

Locked down area near a seafood market in Samut Sakhon, Dec. 20.

Photographer: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images

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Thailand said it may expand a lockdown, sending markets tumbling, as health authorities search for more than 10,000 people with ties to a record cluster of coronavirus cases found in a coastal province near Bangkok.