Migrant labourers dumped in Samut Prakan test negative
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.
