Migrant labourers dumped in Samut Prakan test negative

By The Nation

 

 

Tests on 14 Myanmar workers found dumped at the entrance to Green Lake Village on Bangna-Trat Road in Samut Prakan have all come back negative for Covid-19.

 

Police are investigating the owners of a plastics factory that employed the workers after they were found abandoned on Tuesday night. Another four workers dumped by the factory were rounded up on Wednesday.

 

Samut Prakan police chief Chumpol Pumpuang said all 18 abandoned workers were screened and cleared of Covid-19 infection but have been sent to a quarantine facility for 14 days, as per Public Health Ministry rules.

 

Only six of them have work permits.

 

Police investigating the plastics factory where they worked found 34 Myanmar nationals – seven men and 27 women – still working there. All had work permits.

 

Questioned about the dumped workers, the factory manager claimed a driver had taken them to other areas without informing the factory. The manager assured police that all the remaining migrant workers would be tested for Covid-19.

 

Police said they will interrogate the factory’s administrators before deciding whether to charge them with violating the Disease Control Act for moving migrant workers without permits.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30400170

 

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so what ?

 

I live here but I hate the way they constantly push blame or just totally ignore the obvious 

 

we had some Thais cross the border from a knock house hotel in Burma - then suddenly every migrant in the country has the Chinese Virus known as Covid 

 

The denial is quite astounding 

 

I hope every so called migrant leaves Thailand and never comes back, there is nothing for them here 

 

and farangs point this out and we are not wanted here either because we call it out 

 

can't really expect much more from the leaders here who were never elected

 

they appointed themselves .................. go figure 

 

Banana through and through  

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Only six of them have work permits.

so will they give a big fat fine to the company

 

or just the usual brown envelope ?

 

thailand, where locals hate foreigners, but not the cheap labour

 

at least, the immigrants come to work, not like in my home country, where a big 5 percent of them have a job

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Questioned about the dumped workers, the factory manager claimed a driver had taken them to other areas without informing the factory.

Of course he did, it's the season for giving...

free tours around the country, take-in the beauty and get dumped on the road side.

I hope he gets a gift of a few years behind bars for being the most in-human being this year.

Bosses need to be JAILED not just companies fined. And there needs to be a total AMNESTY for any illegal workers so that EVERYBODY comes forward for not one test but three, and 14 days' quarantine. WITH PAY, that way, we'll find all cases out there. Why the hell not, eh!

59 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Bosses need to be JAILED not just companies fined. And there needs to be a total AMNESTY for any illegal workers so that EVERYBODY comes forward for not one test but three, and 14 days' quarantine. WITH PAY, that way, we'll find all cases out there. Why the hell not, eh!

Because that would be far too much work for the Unelected "PM" and his generals, there would not be any money in it for them. Don't forget, they don't have to please the Thai electorate, because they don't need to win votes, when the time comes and the present unelected "PM" has to be disposed of, another unelected "PM" will take over.

The Thai people themselves would need to start a huge rebellion to stop all this nonsense, the soldiers will just keep on electing themselves.

The driver did it by himself.    But the company used  these workers the day  before?    

Thailand- where companies come so they can use exploited  cheap immigrant labor.