Thai volunteers with PPE protection suits collect a dead body which was left for hours on a road in Bangkok, Thailand on July 20, 2021. Thailand's already locked down capital on Friday, July 23, 2021 shut down parks and the few remaining public places available to residents, as the country registered a new record high of confirmed COVID-19 infections. The near total restriction on movements in the capital came as the prime minister demanded officials find ways to get the sick into hospitals after people were found dead on the streets of Bangkok. (Photo by Patipat Janthong/Voice via AP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on July 20, 2021 shows scores of taxis left in a parking lot, after drivers were unable to pay rent on them due to the economic hardship of Covid-19 and more than a year of no incoming foreign tourism, in Bangkok. Tuk-tuks sitting idle, taxis crammed into empty lots – just some of the vehicles taken off Bangkok's normally riotous roads and stashed in storage as a Covid surge decimates tourism and travel, leaving drivers out of pocket. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Taxis are parked in the area around the Finance Ministry in Bangkok, Thailand, 27 July 2021. Hundreds of taxi drivers stopped to protest and call on the government to provide assistance and solve problems after the impact of the COVID-19 situation spread to more than 20,000 taxi drivers who do not have access to government assistance. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA/EFE)





Buddhist monks disinfect themselves after performing cremation duties for Covid-19 coronavirus victims, at Wat Chin Wararam Worawihan in Bangkok on July 30, 2021. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A health worker prepares a shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for people at the Central Vaccination Center in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, July 22, 2021. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A worker wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus at Hua Lamphong Railway Station Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A motorcycle ride pass the police detention truck was put on fire during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, August 7, 2021. Protesters demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and for part of the budget for the monarchy and the military to be redirected into the fight against the coronavirus. Many people blame Prayuth and his administration for failing to develop an adequate vaccination policy. (Photo by Nathathida Adireksarn/AP Photo)





A volunteer from the “Saimai Will Survive” group in protective gear prepares an oxygen tank to help a woman infected with COVID-19 breathe at her home, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Bangkok, Thailand. As Thailand's medical system struggles beneath a surge of coronavirus cases, ordinary people are helping to plug the gaps, risking their own health to bring care and supplies to often terrified, exhausted patients who've fallen through the cracks. (Photo by Tassanee Vejpongsa/AP Photo)





A giant classic Hindu Ramayana statue dons a face mask to remind passengers to keep to coronavirus precautions at the Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. The Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand has ordered a halt to all domestic flights operating from the most severely affected provinces effective Wednesday. Exceptions are allowed for flights to destinations that are part of a plan that allows vaccinated travelers from abroad to stay for two weeks on popular islands such as Phuket and Samui without quarantine confinement. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A person wearing full protective gear uses an ATM outside a bank Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. (Photo by Grant Peck/AP Photo)





A projectile explodes in front of a line of riot police as they try to disperse anti-government protesters on August 07, 2021 in Bangkok, Thailand. Local media reported that the police will deploy at least 5,700 officers to ensure public order and security during Saturday's anti-government rally in the capital, which was originally scheduled to be held near the Grand Palace, but was changed. Protests have continued in the Thai capital despite record numbers of Covid-19 infections. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)





A police vehicle burns during clashes at a protest against what demonstrators call the government's failure in handling the coronavirus outbreak, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 7, 2021. More than a thousand Thai anti-government protesters clashed with police, as they demonstrated against the government's failure to handle coronavirus outbreaks and its impact on the economy. (Photo by Shoon Naing/Reuters)





Police officers detain a demonstrator during clashes at a protest against what they call the government's failure in handling the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bangkok, Thailand, August 7, 2021. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Health workers administer doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Buddhist monks at the Wat Srisudaram in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A man, who is among a group of people infected with COVID-19, gets into a train at Rangsit train station in Pathum Thani Province, Thailand to head to his hometown, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Thai authorities began transporting some people who have tested positive with the coronavirus from Bangkok to their hometowns on Tuesday for isolation and treatment, to alleviate the burden on the capital’s overwhelmed medical system. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A pro-democracy protester throws an object as others take cover from police water cannon behind a derogatory image of Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut-Chan-O-Cha, as they march to Government House to call for his resignation in Bangkok on July 18, 2021. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Public health officers Charoenrat Chaibut and Jurairat Tasom travel by boat to bring coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swab testing to residents living in remote communities, amid the rise of coronavirus disease infections, in Samut Prakan, near Bangkok, Thailand, July 19, 2021. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Health care workers move a dead body to a container after a hospital morgue overwhelmed by COVID-19 deaths begun to store bodies in refrigerated containers, as the country struggles to deal with its biggest outbreak to date, in Pathum Thani, Thailand on July 31, 2021. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Riot police detain an anti-government protester during protest in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. Protesters demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha for what they say is his failure in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Anti-government protester display the three-finger symbol of resistance in front of burning police truck during protest in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, August 11, 2021. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)