COVID-19 pandemic pushes Thais into mental health crisis
As COVID-19 continues to take lives around the world, there’s another public health crisis that is rearing its ugly head. One that may, perhaps unleash more death and despair than the novel coronavirus itself. Its deaths are harder to count.
In Thailand, the social and economic fissures exposed by the pandemic has resulted in mass unemployment, depleted safety nets, slipping millions in poverty.
Dusita Saokaew
