People in eight provinces are being encouraged to refrain from leaving their residences during the night to keep Covid-19 from spreading further, the Interior Ministry announced on its @prmoithailand Facebook page on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - More than 60 million residents of U.S. cities have been placed under curfews in recent days, as cities burned in protest of the death of another black man in police custody. It is a measure pandemic-weary government officials hoped would deter violence and stanch the damage to their battered cities.