Prognosis
A Million Volunteers Help Thailand Curb Coronavirus Infections
- Volunteers are key for virus surveillance across the nation
- Economy is restarting after a lockdown was mostly scrapped
A man has his temperature checked in Bangkok on March 23.
Photographer: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images
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Thailand is banking on an army of volunteer community health workers, tight border controls and acceptance of social distancing to reopen its economy, after a lockdown prevented a large novel coronavirus outbreak.