Thai Police Use Tear Gas on Protesters Angry With Virus Response
- Government adds curbs to more provinces as cases rise
- Cumulative Covid-19 cases exceed 400,000 as outbreak spreads
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Thai riot police shot tear gas and fired water cannons at pro-democracy activists rallying in the capital as thousands marched to protest the government’s management of the nation’s worst coronavirus outbreak.
Demonstrators in face masks marched near Government House in central Bangkok, despite restrictions on public gatherings of more than five people amid record daily infections. They demanded Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha resign and divert the fiscal budget allocated to the royal family and the military toward the management of the Covid-19 outbreak and procurement of more vaccines, according to local media reports.