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Two Burmese democracy activists speak out on the unrest in the Southeast Asian country

Red-shirt leader Nattawut Saikua was released from prison on Friday, but not before he was tagged with an electronic monitoring bracelet, which will track his every move.

One of two prisoners who escaped from Krabi province last month was arrested on Friday in a hut in Sikao district of Trang province.

A prisoner who had disguised himself as a prison guard to escape from Phetchabun Provincial Prison on Thursday was captured later the same day from an abandoned house in Muang district.

Five members of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) and a former deputy education minister would be released from prison after they received royal pardons, Bangkok Remand Prison announced on Sunday (September 13).

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) provided updates on Monday (September 7) of the people who are suspected of having been in contact with the 37-year-old man who tested positive for Covid-19 while in detention at the Central Special Correctional Institution for drug charges.

The Urban Institute for Disease Prevention and Control took a biosafety mobile unit to conduct Covid-19 tests on people living in a Baan Suan Thon Phuttha Bucha condominium building in Bangkok's Thungkhru district on Saturday, after a man tested positive earlier in the week. It was the first domestic case in Thailand in over a 100 days.

The Criminal Court announced on Friday (September 4) that the 150 officials who came in contact with the Covid-19 patient at the Central Special Correctional Institution had no sign of the virus.

Nonthaburi Governor Sujin Chaichumsak has ordered the closure of the "Sam Wan Song Kuen" (three days, two nights) restaurant on Rama V Road for three days after it became known that a man, who has tested positive for Covid-19, used to work there.

Thai authorities said they were closely tracking the travel and physical contact history of a 37-year-old man being detained over drug charges after he tested positive for Covid-19.

Two government agencies are working together to provide diagnosis and treatment for neurological diseases among prison inmates nationwide.

The Department of Corrections has not received a report on the prisoner said to have contracted Covid-19 , despite the case being raised by the government’s Covid-19 news centre, said director general Narat Sawettanan.