A woman receives a Covid-19 swab test at a mobile test site in Muang district, Chiang Rai on Saturday. The province provided free tests for at-risk people who attended the same concert as an infected person who illegally entered the kingdom through natural channels.
The tourism and hospitality sector in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai continues to be one of the hardest hit by the latest surge of Covid-19 cases, making the outlook for economic recovery more precarious and difficult.
The Bangkok Post talks to people in these two northern provinces as they demand that authorities bring back their businesses during the imminent peak tourist season. The operators are doing so despite the resurgence of local infections brought upon by Thai returnees who were infected in Myanmar.
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