Thailand vows crackdown on human trafficking across Thai-Myanmar border; Myanmar Covid-19 total goes above 130,000

This handout from Thailand's Immigration Bureau taken on January 3, 2021 and released on January 9, 2021 shows a Rohingya woman, who illegally entered Thailand after being smuggled overland from Myanmar's Rakhine state and were bound for Malaysia, taking a Covid-19 coronavirus test at Bangkok's Don Mueang police station. - AFP

BANGKOK, Jan 10 (Xinhua): Thailand's police chief on Saturday pledged to crack down on human-trafficking rackets across the Thai-Myanmar border as well as any officials who may have been involved.

During his visit to border patrol police units in Mae Sot district of Tak province, Pol. Gen. Suwat Jangyodsuk said he had assigned the deputy police chief to head a police mission to investigate the alleged trafficking of Myanmar migrants and any bribe-taking officials allegedly involved.