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Thailand tightens Covid-19 measures on southern border after South African variant detected | South China Morning Post

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Nine villages in a district near the Malaysian border were sealed off by Thai authorities on May 22, 2021, after health officials confirmed new Covid-19 outbreaks of the South African variant. The mutated strain, which is considered more contagious, was detected in eight patients from southern Thailand’s Tak Bai dis…

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