Thailand to further ease Covid-19 restrictions, shorten curfew hours

A cashier wears a face shield behind plastic protection as she works in a supermarket amid the Covid-19 outbreak after the Thai government eased isolation measures, in Bangkok, Thailand, May 29 2020.- Reuters

BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand will next week shorten curfew hours and ease restrictions on more businesses, the government said on Friday (May 29), in response to its low numbers of locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus.

From June 1, cinemas and theatres can reopen, but with no more than 200 people at a time and with strict social distancing measures, said Somsak Roongsita, secretary-general of the National Security Council.