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A Thai woman offers water bathing to a Buddha statue to mark the traditional new year eve or Songkran at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand, 12 April 2022. The Thai government has banned the traditional celebration of water splashing in public to celebrate the Thai New Year in Songkran festival as a precaution against the ongoing rapid spread of COVID-19 Omicron coronavirus variant. The Thai traditional New Year Songkran falls annually on 13 April, and it is celebrated with people splashing water and putting powder on each other's faces as a symbolic sign of cleansing and washing away the sins from the past year. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)
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