BANGKOK: Thais will have to find another way to cool off this year after the government called off the annual water festival that celebrates the ...
FILE PHOTO: People play with water guns during Songkran Water Festival to celebrate Thai New Year, in Bangkok, Thailand April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunBANGKOK: Thais will have to find another way to cool off this year after the government called off the annual water festival that celebrates the Buddhist New Year to curb the outbreak of the new coronavirus.
Thailand usually celebrates its traditional new year or Songkran from Apr 13 to 15, when crowds pack the streets in a boisterous festival, spraying water guns and hurling water off pick-up trucks in a free-for-all water fight.Thailand has reported 2,579 confirmed cases and 40 fatalities since the outbreak began in January, with over half the cases in Bangkok, a spokesman of the government's Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration, Taweesin Wisanuyothin said on Monday .
Malls in Bangkok have been ordered to close except for restaurants for delivery and a nationwide curfew from 10pm to 4am has been instated."It feels strange," said Srisopa Phogphun."It feels like it is supposed to be a long weekend, even if it is postponed to later in the year, but it does not feel the same," she said.More than 1.
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