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Thai Buddhist monks wear face masks and practice social distancing as they chant during a religious rite to mark Buddhist Sabbath Day at Wat Pho or Temple of the Reclining Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand, 17 January 2022. Thailand is battling with the new wave of COVID-19 driven by the Omicron variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus with thousands of infections reported daily while the Public Health Ministry aims to make the COVID-19 pandemic to endemic status in 2022 because of the mild symptoms, lower death rate and the cooperated vaccination drive as part of the government's “living with COVID-19” strategy. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)
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