Thai and Laos government to discuss lifting seafood import ban

 

 

Thailand is asking the Lao PDR to have confidence in Thailand’s ability to contain the recent outbreak, assuring that there is no contamination of Thai seafood products.

 

The Foreign Affairs ministry said Lao’s charge d’affaires in Thailand has agreed to support Thailand in negotiations with the Laotian government over the lifting of the ban on seafood imports from Thailand. The Thai government is trying to assure Laos that Thai seafood is free of the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2.

 

On 23rd December, the Laotian government banned on seafood imports from Thailand, citing the COVID-19 outbreak at the seafood market in Samut Sakhon, fearing that the food would be contaminated with the virus. Thai charge d’affaires in Vientiane, Aurawadee Sribhirom, rushed to meet with Laotian Foreign Affair ministry to ensure that Thailand is able to contain the outbreak. The statement said their counterpart had shown confidence in Thailand’s disease control measures.

 

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Why ban the import in the first place?

 

The chance of spreading covid-19 through shipments and transmitted virus on packages/food are almost non existing https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/food-and-COVID-19.html

 

Plus the seafood that Thailand export are not capable of getting infected with covid-19 unless Thailand started to export bottle nose dolphins or sea lions. 

13 minutes ago, Virt said:

Why ban the import in the first place?

 

The chance of spreading covid-19 through shipments and transmitted virus on packages/food are almost non existing https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/food-and-COVID-19.html

 

Plus the seafood that Thailand export are not capable of getting infected with covid-19 unless Thailand started to export bottle nose dolphins or sea lions. 

The people transporting it could spread it - much as they have done so successfully in Thailand. 

32 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

The people transporting it could spread it - much as they have done so successfully in Thailand. 

True but the article mentions that they feared the food was infected.