Police: More than 40,000 arrested for curfew breach in Thailand

Tents of food stalls and other vendors are illuminated at Rot Fai Market in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday (June 19). Daily life in the capital resumes to normal as the government continues to ease restrictions related to running business and activities that were imposed weeks ago to combat the spread of Covid-19. Thailand reported no local transmissions of the coronavirus in the past 3 weeks. - AP

BANGKOK (Xinhua) -- Thai police on Saturday (June 20) released a report indicating that more than 40,000 people were arrested for defying the night curfew, which was intended to curb the spread of Covid-19 (coronavirus).

Over the course of 72 days, which began on April 3 and ended on June 14, a total of 41,941 violators were apprehended nationwide, that is an average of 582 per day, according to Pol Lt Gen Piya Uthayo.