"Let's implement this for a month. Things should improve then," Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters yesterday. - AP
BANGKOK: Thailand will close hundreds of construction sites and prevent workers from leaving their camps for a month, its prime minister said on Friday, in an effort to tackle the country's worst coronavirus outbreak so far.
The order followed the emergence of more clusters in construction camps in the capital, which has 575 such sites in total housing about 81, 000 workers. Since May, 37 clusters have been found in Bangkok camps.
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