Thailand to 強化する 国境 支配（する）／統制するs after （悪事，秘密などを）発見するing South African COVID-19 variant
BANGKOK, May 23 (Reuters) - Thai 国境 支配（する）／統制するs will 強化する after the 発見 of three 地元の 事例／患者s of the South African COVID-19 variant stemming from 違法な 国境 crossings, 当局 said on Sunday, as the country grapples to 含む／封じ込める its worst coronavirus 突発／発生 yet.
The first 地元の 事例／患者 of the South African variant, known as B.1.351, was （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd on May 4 in a 32-year-old Thai man after he was visited by family who entered Thailand from Malaysia through an informal 国境 crossing, the director-general of the 病気 支配（する）／統制する department said.
Movement of people has been 制限するd in the 影響する／感情d 地区 and only two other 事例／患者s of the South African variant, out of 81 事例／患者s, have been （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd there since the start of May, Opas Karnkawinpong said.
"The South African variant discovered is 類似の to those 設立する in Malaysia," Opas said.
While there are 関心s the variant may 脅す the efficacy of COVID-19 ワクチンs, Opas said 集まり inoculations will still be 効果的な in 減ずるing the severity and 率 of fatality from the 病気.
The Thai 政府 said it will 増加する 動員可能数, 検問所s and electric 監視 along all land 国境s and order 公式の／役人s to be tougher on the trafficking of 違法な migrants.
当局 in Bangkok have also 禁じるd movement of labourers at construction 労働者s' （軍の）野営地，陣営s after 11 （軍の）野営地，陣営s were の中で 30 active clusters in the Thai 資本／首都.
The 政府 COVID-19 仕事 軍隊 has asked construction companies to take care of their 労働者s by 供給するing food and 準備／条項s during this period.
There are around 409 労働者s （軍の）野営地，陣営s around Bangkok where city 当局 say 62,169 労働者s live, about half who are migrant labourers.
Movement 制限s have also been 課すd on markets and call centres around Bangkok.
Thailand on Sunday 報告（する）／憶測d 3,382 new coronavirus 事例／患者s and 17 new deaths, bringing the total to 129,500 事例／患者s and 776 fatalities since the pandemic started last year. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)
