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Thai celeb with COVID spurs closures around Bangkok

Several downtown businesses are closed today after learning they were visited by a celebrity infected with COVID-19.

Many public figures who came into contact with well-known radio and television host Techin Ploypetch, aka DJ Matoom, have gone to get tested after he went public with his diagnosis Wednesday night in a video posted to Instagram. Shops at two malls and a supermarket have also closed after learning he had visited.

Techin, a 31-year-old host on EFM94 entertainment radio, said that, within the past two weeks, he had visited places including a Foodland supermarket at The Street Ratchada and three shops at the Central Embassy shopping mall, the Joha Korean Restaurant in Ari, Sathon’s Vertigo rooftop bar and barbecue restaurant Yang Noey Ratchada. 

He does not know where he contracted the disease.

The Banyan Tree Bangkok, where Vertigo is located and…

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