{"id":33041,"date":"2021-06-13T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/13\/factory-workers-making-goods-for-the-west-bear-brunt-of-virus-surge-in-south-east-asia"},"modified":"2021-06-13T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T04:00:49","slug":"factory-workers-making-goods-for-the-west-bear-brunt-of-virus-surge-in-south-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33041","title":{"rendered":"Factory workers making goods for the west bear brunt of virus surge in south-east Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migrant labourers tell of being forced to isolate in brutal conditions as Covid wave grips region<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was around mid-May when workers at the Cal-Comp factory in Phetchaburi, central Thailand, heard a small group of their colleagues had tested positive for Covid-19. It soon became clear the virus had ripped through the production lines. A cluster associated with the electronics factory has since been linked to thousands of infections.<\/p>\n<p>Hwan Htet Paing*, a worker from the factory, said he was not told the results of his Covid test, carried out on 19 May. Despite this, he was instructed to quarantine inside a vast hall at his workplace. The floor was covered with tarpaulin sheets and lined with rows of mosquito nets for each worker. Everyone was given a bucket and a cup, and bedsheets to lay across the floor. Fans were handed out to help ease the heat \u2013 until the vast numbers of people testing positive meant there were none left.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/13\/factory-workers-making-goods-for-the-west-bear-brunt-of-virus-surge-in-south-east-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrant labourers tell of being forced to isolate in brutal conditions as Covid wave grips regionCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt was around mid-May when workers at the Cal-Comp factory in Phetchaburi, central Thailand, he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,1066,346,70,79,93,565,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-malaysia","category-society","category-thailand","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33042,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33041\/revisions\/33042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}