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Myanmar & COVID-19
Health authorities in Samut Sakhon province plan to test more than 35,000 migrant workers in the next 10 days.
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Asia
Indonesian President Joko Widodo received his first shot of a Chinese-made vaccine on Wednesday, as Beijing’s top diplomat visited the country.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
With a vaccine due to arrive in February, the government asked for help from the public to pay the bill. The public responded generously.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Despite a Myanmar government-ordered ‘lockdown’, gambling operations in Myawaddy continue to fuel illegal movement back and forth across the Thai border.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The government has opened two bank accounts with initial deposits totaling $251 million and invited members of the public to contribute.
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World
Officials in Colorado announced the US’ first detection of a potentially more infectious strain of the coronavirus that has already been detected in Britain.
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Guest Column
Thais won’t be safe until migrant workers are safe. Guarantees that nobody will be detained when they report for testing, regardless of work status, are a good start.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The governor of Samut Sakhon province is among nearly 1,300 people who have been infected in Thailand’s biggest COVID-19 outbreak.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Emergency authorization of the vaccine expected by the end of December with Myanmar vaccinations to roll out by April.
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World
US biotech firm Moderna expects its vaccine to be effective against variants of the coronavirus.
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Editorial
In reacting to the COVID-19 cluster in Samut Sakhon, Thai officials must take care not to stigmatize the Myanmar migrants on whom the seafood hub’s economy depends.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Hundreds of Myanmar migrants working in markets and factories in the Thai seafood industry hub of Mahachai near Bangkok have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Opinion
Despite—and in some cases, because of—border closures due to COVID-19, illegal trades continue to flourish on the Thai-Myanmar frontier.
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World
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his government would start the biggest vaccination in the UK’s history, now that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been approved there.
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World
Drugmaker Pfizer plans to seek emergency use authorization in the US for its COVID-19 vaccine, which it now says is 95-percent effective, in the next few days.
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