BANGKOK: A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand's party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She's scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent. Red-light districts from Bangkok...
Twenty-three people have died in Thailand since the outbreak began in January.
Many of Bangkok's sex workers had jobs in the relative safety of bars, working for tips and willing to go home with customers.Others like Pim went to work the streets. There are concerns that a Thai government emergency scheme to give 5,000 baht to millions of newly jobless over the next three months will exclude sex workers because they cannot prove formal employment.
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