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A Mae Sot Hospital doctor posted a message on Facebook thanking Atlanta Medicare for donating 3,700 bottles of an antiretroviral drug worth 3.55 million baht.

A rescue team on Friday tracked down the 45-year-old Canadian man who had disappeared while exploring a forested area near Wat Tham Inthanin in Tak’s Mae Sot district on Thursday evening.

A 38-year-old man in Tak province has become the first person to die of Covid-19 spread by the Thong Lor cluster, the province's Public Health Office said on Friday.

The Army is preparing 23 refugee camps in the border province of Tak to accommodate Myanmar nationals fleeing the deadly crackdown following the February 1 coup.

Mae Sot Hospital in Tak province on the Myanmar border has banned visitors until Monday (March 8) after 19 of its staff came into contact with two Covid-19 patients.

Cross-border trade in Tak’s Mae Sot district has been disrupted as Myanmar truck drivers have struck work to participate in anti-coup protests, a news source revealed.

Fire swept through one the biggest refugee camps on the Thailand-Myanmar border, in Mae La subdistrict in Tak’s Tha Song Yang district, destroying more than 50 shelters. No injuries or deaths were reported.

Eleven School and Child Development Centres in Mae Sot City Municipality in Tak province as well as private schools will be closed from February 8-12 due to increasing Covid-19 cases.

All 15 schools in Mae Sot were ordered to shut down on Monday morning less than an hour after reopening, following the discovery that several children had tested positive for Covid-19.

Thailand was hit by a new wave of Covid-19 infections in December when people, both Thais and foreigners, began sneaking across the border, leaving medical personnel on the frontline overwhelmed.

Senior Public Health Ministry officials and the Mae Sot deputy mayor on Thursday surveyed the Mae Sot International Stadium in Tak’s Mae Pa subdistrict after the province’s communicable disease committee decided to build a field hospital there to treat and quarantine Thai nationals in Myanmar who wish to return home.

Some 200 Thais working in casinos across the border in Myanmar, along with some who have crossed over illegally for work or to gamble are now asking to return home, 3rd Army commander Lt-General Apichet Suesat said.