A border checkpoint in southern Thailand has been temporarily closed for a week of sanitisation after two immigration officials were found infected with Covid-19.
Gen Pornpipat Benyasri, chief of the Thai Defence Forces, on Wednesday 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, were found infected and about 70 others have been put under a 14-day quarantine.
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