A tonne of prawns sold out outside Government House, pro-democracy group says

By THE NATION

 

 

The leader of pro-democracy "We Volunteer" group, Piyarat Chongthep, on Saturday decided to sell a tonne of prawns in front of Government House, in response to a decrease in seafood sales across the nation due to the new Covid-19 crisis in Samut Sakhon province.

 

 

Wevo informed via its Facebook page that the entire stock of a tonne of prawns was sold out. The group also apologised for problems during the distribution on Saturday.

 

Piyarat explained that the prawns were brought from a farm in Nakhon Pathom province. His commercial operation was supervised by the police officers there.

 

The latest Covid-19 crisis emerged in Thailand last week, from the Central Shrimp Market in Samut Sakhon. Initial patients included seafood vendors, their family members and migrant workers who worked there, but the coronavirus has spread to other people who visited this market and other markets in the province.

 

This week, several vendors who had purchased seafood from Samut Sakhon for selling in their shops or in their stalls, were found infected with the virus. Moreover, some markets have been closed after the confirmed cases, obstructing routine trading and sales.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30400277?utm_source=category&utm_medium=internal_referral

 

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Tomorrow's headlines ' the number of Covid infected people has increased sharply, properly due to  consumption of Covid tainted prawns, the government is investigating the source'...

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

Tomorrow's headlines ' the number of Covid infected people has increased sharply, properly due to  consumption of Covid tainted prawns, the government is investigating the source'...

...and discover it was in fact Special BBQ Sauce.

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Piyarat explained that the prawns were brought from a farm in Nakhon Pathom province. His commercial operation was supervised by the police officers there.

Nakhon Pathom now has a spike in infections, at least 8 tambons that I know of.

13 hours ago, ezzra said:

Tomorrow's headlines ' the number of Covid infected people has increased sharply, properly due to  consumption of Covid tainted prawns, the government is investigating the source'...

Ohh, they won’t bother investigating the source.....they will go straight to charging the “offenders”. Let’s see ...they advertised it on Facebook so that means they can use the Computer Crimes Act. Illegal assembly when people queued up ? I’m sure they could get sedition and les  majeste in there somehow too.

It's not the Samut Sakhon prawns and seafood that were infected, it was some people that worked in the processing of the prawns and seafood.

 

Nothing to see here beyond an entrepreneurial shrimp farmer from 'up country' quickly cashing in on the misinformed scaremongering.