Thailand tracking 200 people as infected returnees skip Covid-19 quarantine, SE Asia

BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Thailand was racing to track down about 200 people in its northern provinces on Monday (Nov 30) to stop a potential coronavirus outbreak, after three Thai nationals entered the country illegally from Myanmar and tested positive days later. Three women bypassed immigration checks and entered via natural border crossings last Tuesday and Friday, skipping the mandatory quarantine for new arrivals, Chiang Rai provincial governor Prachon Pratsakul said. There were 356 people in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai provinces potentially exposed, among them staff and customers of a hotel, shopping mall, cinema, restaurants and passengers in a van…