Thailand: Concert charged with violating virus decree; only two import cases reported


A view of the almost empty departure hall of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Saturday, August 1, 2020, as passenger numbers plummeted due to the coronavirus. - AFP

BANGKOK, Aug 1 (Xinhua): A concert organiser in Thailand was charged with organising a mega country music concert in southern Thailand without enforcing social distancing and mask wearing amongst concert-goers.

"We have evidences to show that the concert organizer breached the emergency decree law," said Cha-uat district police chief Pol Col Thien Barnthip, from Thailand's southern Province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, the location where the concert took place last Saturday.

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