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Four out of 32 Myanmar migrants who had allegedly illegally entered Thailand via Prachuap Khiri Khan province on March 3 have tested positive for Covid-19, provincial Governor Phanlop Singhaseni said on Thursday.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Wednesday released a report on law violations and complaints related to the Covid-19 outbreak as of February 28, government spokesperson Anucha Burapachaisri said.

Police on Monday announced that Ratree “Je Pet” Vechsuwan has been arrested for allegedly running an illegal migrant labour network.

Twenty-seven Cambodian nationals have been arrested for entering the country without proper documentation and disguising themselves as Buddhist monks at Wat Talom temple in Bangkok’s Phasi Charoen district, Immigration Police chief Pol Lt-General Sompong Chingduang announced on Tuesday.

Mae Sot officials are concerned about the situation along the Thai-Myanmar border at Tha Song Yang district, Tak province, after Myanmar’s government ordered three battalion commanders to be removed from office on charges of “conspiracy with foreigners to destroy the country” and a clash in the neighbouring nation between its military and ethic rebels.

Nearly 300 migrant workers in Samut Sakhon province were free from Covid-19 after 14 days in quarantine, testing and are ready to return to work in the Central Prawn Market.

Some 900 people tested positive in Samut Sakhon recently, a provincial health official said on Wednesday.

Seven out of 19 illegal immigrants arrested following a tip-off have tested positive for Covid-19, a senior Bangkok administration official said.

The district chief of Sungai Kolok district in Narathiwat province on Friday announced the arrest of 11 male migrants from Myanmar while they were trying to enter Thailand by crossing a river in Pasemat subdistrict that serves as a border with Malaysia.

An Ubon Ratchathani man has been arrested for allegedly transporting 12 illegal migrants from Laos in a pickup truck late on Friday.

Thirty suspected illegal migrants from Myanmar and a Thai man who allegedly helped hide and transport them after they had crossed the border in Tak province via Mei River have been arrested.

The Ministry of Public Health is employing preventive measures against Covid-19 on the border areas of Tak province, as the outbreak in Myanmar is escalating and several Myanmar migrants have been caught trying to slip into Thailand via natural channels such as rivers, canals and mountains.