Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, banned alcohol sales for a week and a half to help prevent social gatherings that could spread the virus that causes Covid-19.
The ban applies from April 10 to April 20 and is the metropolitan region’s latest effort to contain a surge in infections since early March.
The country as a whole is under a state of emergency and partial lockdown, including alcohol restrictions in other provinces. “We ask that all of you cooperate," Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, a spokesman for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, said in a briefing Thursday. “We’re about to gain control over the spread of the virus." Thailand reported 54 additional novel coronavirus infections Thursday, among the smallest daily increases in recent weeks,