Thai police patrol the country's sea border with Myanmar this morning (September 7) following a spike in Covid-19 cases in the neighbouring country. <br /><br />Officers used speedboats in the Andaman Sea off the coast of Ranong province in the south to scour the channels where Burmese workers can enter illegal by dodging immigration controls. <br /><br />Thailand has recorded just one local transmission of the coronavirus in more than 100 days. In contrast, Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, saw a sudden surge in infections at the end of August and has now recorded more than 1,419 cases of the virus as of September 7. <br /><br />Lt. Col. Thanya Damkaew, the commander of the Border Patrol Police in Ranong, said he had been tasked with ''deterring illegal immigration from neighboring citizens who may have been infected with Covid-19''.<br /><br />He added: ''The work has switched to patrols 24 hours a day since receiving orders to patrol the Andaman Sea.''
