BANGKOK — Tourist attractions are gradually disappearing ahead of Thailand’s full reopening for vaccinated visitors in mid-October as the epidemic of the delta strain bruises Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy.
The Train Night Market Ratchada, Bangkok’s popular twilight flea market, known as Talaat Rot Fai, became one of the most recent business victims of the coronavirus. It had been scheduled to resume operation on Aug. 1 after closing temporarily due to the government’s COVID-19 restrictions, but now will close indefinitely instead.
In June, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha declared in a televised address that Thailand would fully reopen its borders to vaccinated tourists in 120 days, insisting that tourism receipts would be vital for economic recovery. Although the government has not taken back the target, outbreaks of the delta variant starting in July have made it more…
