Fish markets mistaken as Covid source ‘face Bt1bn hit’

By The Nation

 

 

Samut Sakhon’s normally busy fish markets paid the penalty on Friday after a prawn-seller in the city tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.

 

The Talay Thai market and Mae Klong Fish market were deserted by customers even though the infected woman worked at a separate market, Talad Krong, which sells only prawn.

 

Almost no trade was done at the city’s two main fish markets on Friday, after shoppers mistook them for the source of the latest domestic case of Covid-19, said Kamjon Mongkoltrilak, president of the Fisheries Association of Thailand.

 

“I would like to clarify that the woman infected with Covid-19 owns a prawn shop at a separate location from the fish markets. The woman’s shop sold no seafood, only prawn raised in ponds.”

 

He added that Talay Thai market and Mae Klong Fish market were also separate markets, but media had used photos of both in their news coverage of the Covid-19 case. This had confused shoppers and scared them away from both markets, he said.

 

Mongkol Mongkoltrilak, president of Samut Sakhon Fisheries Association, confirmed that the freshwater prawn shop owned by the infected woman had no link with the two markets at all. He insisted that the two fish markets were still safe.

 

The misleading news coverage would impact around 100,000 people who work in the two markets and their estimated Bt1 billion annual trade, said Mongkol Sukcharoenkana, former president and adviser of the Fisheries Association of Thailand.

 

Mongkol added that boat workers stay in Thailand and face strict disease controls including temperature measurement both on and off the fishing boats.

 

However, undocumented migrant seafood workers have evaded quarantine and are being sought by health officials, he said. He warned of dire consequences of importing Covid-19 from overseas fisheries workers.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399828?utm_source=category&utm_medium=internal_referral

 

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Maybe if reporting was done by a single entity or a unified command structure with the three W's being told, Thats the Who, What, and the Why or Where, when the reports were made and spread over media there may have not been any confusion.  However, TIT and at least three or four different people always have to tell the media their view of the story without all of the information included.  Hate to say it, but it is their own damned fault and the Government should be involved in restitution for any lost product that spoiled or would have been sold, just my opinion.

4 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Hate to say it, but it is their own damned fault and the Government should be involved in restitution for any lost product that spoiled or would have been sold, just my opinion.

But they will blame the press.

It is always somebody else's fault.

 

Another very misleading headline.

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

However, undocumented migrant seafood workers have evaded quarantine and are being sought by health officials, he said.

In contrast to the "documented migrant seafood workers", who all do 14d in ASQ...? 

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Mongkol Mongkoltrilak, president of Samut Sakhon Fisheries Association, confirmed that the freshwater prawn shop owned by the infected woman had no link with the two markets at all. He insisted that the two fish markets were still safe.

Yet customers who used her "prawn shop" in one market may have also gone to the other markets, thus spreading the infection...

sorry your argument doesn't hold up and the customers were right to be cautious.

17 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

But they will blame the press.

It is always somebody else's fault.

 

.....and usually foreign !

On 12/18/2020 at 5:22 PM, snoop1130 said:

Mongkol Mongkoltrilak, president of Samut Sakhon Fisheries Association, confirmed that the freshwater prawn shop owned by the infected woman had no link with the two markets at all. He insisted that the two fish markets were still safe.

 

Good to hear that they are still safe, so i can go there to buy some fish.