Thai Province Bans Booze Sales to Curb Virus, Others May Follow
- Sakon Nakhon is first of 77 Thai provinces to pass prohibition
- Banning alcohol is one option to limit group-led contagion
Waiters wearing facemasks as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus serve customers at a hotel bar in Bangkok on March 17.
Photographer: Romeo Gacad/AFP via Getty Images
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As Thailand seeks to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, a crackdown on the sale of alcoholic beverages has become one option, after a province of more than 1 million people in the northeast part of the country imposed the prohibition.