Urgently found next to COVID, shocked villagers gather in front of Mae Sot checkpoint, requesting the closure

 

At 15.00 on October 11, 2020, the reporter reported that At the front of the Mae Sot permanent border gate of the second Adjacent to the foot of the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge, Mae Sot District, Tak Province has a group of villagers on the border of Mae Sot District By using the name of the border people's network To gather in peace

To submit a letter requesting to the governor of Tak Mae Sot Customs Tak Immigration Ordered the closure of the Mae Sot permanent border to prevent COVID-19 Spread from the Myanmar side to the border of Mae Sot District, Tak Province

With the villagers' representatives reasoning that Due to the epidemic situation of COVID-19 Thai-Myanmar border Latest medical team of Mae Sot Hospital Two Myanmar drivers found infected with COVID-19 And can travel to Mae Sot market, which is the heart of Mae Sot city

As a result, the public has a lot of panic. Because if opening a border checkpoint normally Pathogens will spread into Thailand. Inevitably Therefore request to submit a letter through Tak Province governor Request to temporarily close the Mae Sot border checkpoint until the situation is resolved.

After the villagers' representatives read the statement Completed Mr. Thawatchai Onsarn, Deputy District Chief of Security, Mae Sot District Administrative representative of Mae Sot District Accepts a letter from a representative of the villagers to submit to the governor of Tak Province. The protesters set a deadline within 3 days to ask for an answer, which, if not effective, will bring more villagers to protest The entire assembly then dissolved among dozens of security personnel to maintain the peace.

After the staff of Mae Sot Hospital has worked proactively Set up a screening point for Myanmar drivers In front of the second permanent border at Mae Sot And found 2 people with COVID the day before Recently, one additional driver of goods transported with COVID-19 has been detected, a total of three, and officials have urgently investigated the disease of those who have come into contact with a third driver.