Thai prime minister fined $190 for not wearing mask in covid-19 meeting

Prayuth has not publicly commented, but a photograph that showed him as the lone maskless attendee at Monday’s government meeting has been deleted from his Facebook page.

The prime minister had contacted Bangkok officials to ask them to investigate if he had broken the local rules on masking, according to Aswin’s account.

Thailand is in the midst of a surge of new covid-19 cases, with 2,048 new infections reported Monday. Although the country has not recorded as many cases or deaths as many other nations — 57,508 cases and 148 deaths — the rising pace has led to new rules, including numerous mask mandates.

Forty-eight Thai provinces, as well as the capital, Bangkok, have extended mask laws to include almost all locations outside personal residences, including outdoors and inside a vehicle with more than one person inside.

As the rules took…