Ghost town: A woman walking past the Central World shopping complex in Bangkok on the first day of the curfew. — AFP
Over 10 million people were placed under fresh Covid-19 restrictions and a curfew in the Thai capital, as the kingdom battles a surge of cases worsened by the highly infectious Alpha and Delta variants.
Thailand has so far recorded more than 326,300 cases and 2,711 deaths – with the bulk of them coming in this latest wave that kicked off in April.
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