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The Central Shrimp Market in Thailand’s coastal province of Samut Sakhon – the epicentre of the country’s second COVID-19 wave – reopened on March 1 after being closed since December 19.

The business resumption sub-committee of Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) will propose that disease control measures be relaxed in 19 more provinces from the current 35.

Thailand on February 1 recorded 836 new coronavirus cases, 793 of them from active testing.

Thailand has for the first time put into operation a COVID-19 quarantine facility which was converted from a factory of the Pattaya Food Group.

Thailand on December 26 reported 110 new cases of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, raising the total number of cases in the country to 6,020, including 4,061 community infections.

Laos has temporarily banned the import of seafood from Thailand after a new outbreak of COVID-19 hit the kingdom, Vientiane Times reported.

Thailand announced on December 18 four new community infections of COVID-19 just one day after the country eased restrictions to allow tourists to return.

The number of COVID-19 tests on at-risk groups, such as healthcare workers, migrants and new prisoners, is expected to double next month, in line with the Thai government's efforts to contain the virus, according to the Department of Disease Control (CDC).