Clawing back normality: Bangkok cat cafe reopens after virus shutdown


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  • Friday, 08 May 2020

A customer plays with cats to find comfort at the Caturday Cat cafe after the government started opening some restaurants outside shopping malls, parks and barbershops, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand May 7, 2020. REUTERS/Juarawee Kittisilpa

BANGKOK (Reuters) - As Thailand's capital cautiously reopens many restaurants shuttered over coronavirus fears, the feline "employees" of the Caturday Cafe are back at work.

The few dozen friendly cats typically lounge around the cafe, breaking up naptime to saunter over to human customers for snuggles and belly rubs.

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