Due to the temporary closure of Sadao checkpoint, the homecoming workers may use a nearby Padang Besar border checkpoint in Songkhla province. - The Star/ANN
BANGKOK (Xinhua): A border checkpoint in southern Thailand has been temporarily closed for a week of sanitisation against the Covid-19 pandemic after two immigration officials have been found infected with it.
Gen Pornpipat Benyasri, chief of the Thai Defense Forces, on Wednesday (April 22) ordered the temporary closure of Sadao checkpoint in Songkhla province until April 29 after the two immigration officials, based at the Thai-Malaysian border checkpoint, have been found infected and about 70 others have been put under a 14-day quarantine.
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