The Public Health Ministry has opened an emergency operations centre (EOC) in Tak province in a bid to block cholera, which is spreading in the adjacent city of Shwe Kokko in Myanmar. Two cases so far have been recorded in Tak.

Many poultry found dead, believed from cholera, in Maha Sarakham

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, permanent secretary for public health, said on Sunday that the public health office of Tak now functioned as the EOC and Dr Supachok Wechaphanphesat, acting health inspector-general, was its commander.

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