Thailand steps up security at borders

Just making sure: A security guard pretending to take the temperature of a face shield-wearing Thai Hanuman puppet held by puppeteers at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok. The monkey god Hanuman is a character from the ‘Ramakien’, the Thai version of the Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’. — AFP

THAILAND has ordered security to be stepped up at its land borders after concerns surged over a possible second wave of coronavirus infections, following the arrests of thousands of illegal migrants in the past month.

Since the start of June, authorities have arrested 3,000 migrant workers for overland entry attempts, said Taweesin Wisanuyothin, a spokesman for Thailand’s task force on the disease, yesterday.