Nonthaburi places Bang Yai Market under strict control

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Officials have placed Bang Yai Market under the highest level of controls and surrounded it with barbed wire after a COVID-19 infection was detected there.

 

Nonthaburi Governor Sujin Chaichumsak, ordered the market be temporarily closed, along with the nearby seven story pink condominium also to be shuttered until January 12 next year. The market however is to be allowed to reopen on January 1st.

 

An announcement of at risk areas in the province, also imposed strict controls across all districts with Bang Yai seeing the most stringent measures. The announcement assured residents that all restrictions were made with consideration of the economy and the lives of people in Nonthaburi, as much as they were made in the interests of public health.

 

Deputy Governor of Nonthaburi, Nisakorn Wisitsornat and Bang Yai District Chief Chun Natdech Kansukul, accompanied over 100 officials including police and public health workers to put up notices of the temporary closure of the condominium, and used Burmese translators to communicate with the mostly Myanmar tenants of the building to ensure that they understood the structure is to be closed to all people without proper authorization, as a measure intended to contain COVID-19.

 

While tenants of the building were disconcerted by the news, the authorities assured them they would be provided with food and water throughout the closure, and did not obstruct the placing of barbed wire around the premises. A checkpoint has been set up at the condominium to screen people coming and going.

 

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Please also give them free COVID tests and stop blaming Burmese for everything.

Sheet, this is getting a bit too close to home for comfort.Still, I've survived many diseases - mumps, measles, you name it I've had it, not to mention dengue fever and some other weird tropical disease that took my hearing, hopefully a bit of that resilience still resides in this 65 going on 66 body.

Locking people inside a building and using barbed wire, when there are known known Covid cases inside, has to be barbaric.

Quite unfortunately, this is my general neighborhood. I live about 3km away and Talad Bang Yai is a welcome respite from the boredom of Central Westgate. Sigh..I'm in BKK now but will return home today and stock up, looks like a long slog ahead.

Edited January 1, 20215 yr by tonray

2 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Locking people inside a building and using barbed wire, when there are known known Covid cases inside, has to be barbaric.

Getting more like the CCP tactics everyday.