Go-go bars gone as coronavirus hits Bangkok's night life


A tour guide waits for visitors inside the Patpong museum at the nightlife district, during the coronavirus outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, May 26, 2020. - Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters): The black leather party masks that performers May and Som wear for their fetish shows in Bangkok are definitely not the sort to stop the coronavirus.

Behind closed doors, they practise for the day when health restrictions are lifted and tourists return, but they have no idea when and worry that the city's infamous Patpong red-light district could be very different by then.

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