The Thai News
Published by: Edward Era Barbacena
Thailand's capital city's nightlife will be temporarily unavailable to the people of the night as the ban on selling liquors on bars, nightclub and restaurants to take on effect on Saturday due to the increase in cases of covid-19 in the country.
Thailand has been efficient in controlling the spread of the covid-19 pandemic since it was detected on January last year. On November, the total cases was only less than 4,000.
Unexpectedly, the cases have skyrocketed last December by more than 40 percent and cases have reached to a staggering 7,300.
In Bangkok, where more than 2,600 cases were detected, local government have decided to impose partial lockdown in order to curb the spread of the pandemic that will take effect on Saturday.
Establishments like nightclubs, restaurants, shopping malls, cockpit arenas, gyms, sports centers massage parlors, barber shops and salons will be shut down and will not be allowed to operate for the meantime.
Local government unit have announced that public schools will be closed for two weeks and dozens of checkpoints will be set across the nation's capital.
Nationwide restrictions and closures are expected to be carried out from January 4 and will be lifted up by February 1 - thus it will provide a 2 days grace period of business owners to prepare.
Anger echoed the social media as people were infuriated on the new restrictions with business owners expressed frustrations on the partial lockdown.
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