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.
More CCTV cameras will be installed in some areas in Mae Sot district and Mae Ramat district of Tak province in addition to more frequent border patrols, according to Suwat.
The police chief made the comments in response to allegations on social media which claimed some officials had taken part in the cross-border trafficking of Myanmar migrants.
Meanwhile, the confirmed Covid-19 cases rose to 130,049 with 2,826 deaths in Myanmar on Saturday, according to a Health Ministry release.
The South-East Asian country recorded 566 new infections and 14 more deaths from the coronavirus epidemic in the past 24 hours, the release said.
A total of 113,550 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far in Myanmar.
According to the ministry's release, the daily virus test positivity rate stands currently at 2.9 percent, remaining under 5 percent since Dec 18.
Over 1.98 million samples have been tested for Covid-19 since the first infection was detected in Myanmar on March 23 last year. - Xinhua
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.
More CCTV cameras will be installed in some areas in Mae Sot district and Mae Ramat district of Tak province in addition to more frequent border patrols, according to Suwat.
The police chief made the comments in response to allegations on social media which claimed some officials had taken part in the cross-border trafficking of Myanmar migrants.
Meanwhile, the confirmed Covid-19 cases rose to 130,049 with 2,826 deaths in Myanmar on Saturday, according to a Health Ministry release.
The South-East Asian country recorded 566 new infections and 14 more deaths from the coronavirus epidemic in the past 24 hours, the release said.
A total of 113,550 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals so far in Myanmar.
According to the ministry's release, the daily virus test positivity rate stands currently at 2.9 percent, remaining under 5 percent since Dec 18.
Over 1.98 million samples have been tested for Covid-19 since the first infection was detected in Myanmar on March 23 last year. - Xinhua
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