BANGKOK (AFP) - A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand's party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She's scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - A shutdown to contain the coronavirus has killed Thailand's party scene and forced sex workers like Pim out of bars and onto desolate streets. She's scared but desperately needs customers to pay her rent.
"I'm afraid of the virus but I need to find customers so I can pay for my room and food," Pim, a 32-year-old transgender sex worker, told Agence France-Presse in an area of Bangkok where previously bawdy neon-lit bars and brothels have gone dark. The government says it is ready to enforce a 24-hour curfew if necessary to control a virus that has infected more than 2,000 people and killed 23, according to official figures.
Her friend Alice, another transgender sex worker, has also been forced to move from a go-go bar to the roadside."But when businesses shut down, my income stopped too. We are doing this because we're poor. If we can't pay our hotel they will kick us out."
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