Strictly supervise the Mae Sot 2 permanent border checkpoint after meeting 19 Myanmar workers. Car charterers leave Samut Sakhon before announcing a lock down. The governor ordered the detention for 14 days.
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Labor from Samut Sakhon – On December 20, 2020, at the front gate of the 2nd permanent border, Mae Sot, the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, Ban Wang Takhian Tai, Tha Sai Luat Sub-district, Mae Sot District, Tak Province, next to the Thai-Wife border Come From morning to afternoon this afternoon, Mae Sot district administrative staff Sending a fast-moving unit, the third Mae Sot Territorial Volunteer Company with health officials of Mae Sot District Soldiers, Special Task Force, 4th Infantry Regiment, Tak Provincial Employment Officer and Tak Immigration Police
In order to search for all passenger vans, which carry hundreds of Myanmar nationals, send them to the parking lot at the checkpoint. Mae Sot Permanent Border No. 2
Since the middle of the night, security officials in Mae Sot district have increased their rigor by raising the level of validation of documents for foreigners crossing the Mae Sot 2nd Permanent Border Post after the announcement was made last night. Lock down in Samut Sakhon area and prohibit the removal of foreign workers from the COVID-19 epidemic In Samut Sakhon Province
The results of the passenger van search showed three chartered passenger vans transporting 19 Myanmar nationals from Samut Sakhon area with luggage full of the van cabin until it was crowded. All workers traveled outside the lockdown area before the lockdown was announced in the middle of the night on December 19.
After detection, the 19 workers were placed in a special zone, separated from more than 80 regular workers traveling from Bangkok and other provinces in the central region of Thailand. Before the officer coordinated to send all workers today who submitted a request to cross the Mae Sot border to Myawaddy Province health officials. Myanmar Taken back to the country of origin to be transported to a Myanmar detention center Through strict international screening
Three drivers of vulnerable laborers, all three of whom are now Thai men, have been taken to the state detention area in Mae Sot district to wait for a 14-day medical examination and wait.
One of the vulnerable workers said Myself along with a friend to work in the Samut Sakhon area and hired a van at a special price to deliver at the border of Mae Sot District, Tak Province, in order to travel back to my hometown in Myawaddy Province. Myanmar Many people fear the spread of COVID in Thailand and want to go home in the New Year due to their homesickness. And there was a few hours before the announcement of the lockdown in Samut Sakhon Province
Recently, security officials in Mae Sot District have to increase surveillance and deter labor groups that may be smuggled across the border. Including setting up a screening point for all foreign labor transport drivers driving in the border area of Tak Province 24 hours a day
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