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Free meals for Chiang Mai workers left jobless, as all nightclubs closed

Kriangkrai Prompithak at his restaurant, where he is offering free meals to nightspot workers forced out of a job by closure orders to stop the spread of Covid-19. (Photo: Phanumate Tanraksa)

CHIANG MAI: A restaurant owner with a kind heart is offering free meals for night workers forced out of their job by an order closing all night entertainment venues for 14 days to help halt the spread of Covid-19.

The order was issued by the provincial communicable disease committee and announced on the provincial health office Facebook page about 10pm on Tuesday, effective from Wednesday until Jan 19. 

Those most affected by a closure order include musicians and singers, and waiters and waitresses and other employees of pubs, bars and other night spots in Chiang Mai.

The announcement hit a chord with Kriangkrai…

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