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.
Others like Pim went to work the streets.
Pim is paying a heavy price for the movement restrictions - she has not had a customer for 10 days and the bills are stacking up. Since Friday, Thais have been under a 10pm to 4am curfew. Bars and eat-in restaurants closed several days earlier. AFP/Mladen ANTONOVThe occasional tourist loiters near clusters of sex workers, before a furtive negotiation and a quick march to a nearby hotel, one of the few still open on Bangkok's main tourist drag.Sex workers have flocked back to homes across the country in anticipation of several weeks of virtual lockdown before Thailand's night economy comes back to life.
There are concerns that a Thai government emergency scheme to give 5,000 baht to millions of newly jobless over the next three months will exclude sex workers because they cannot prove formal employment.
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