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Bangkok, Mar 31 (EFE/EPA).-Thai Buddhist monks from Wat Matchantikaram temple in Bangkok have produced their own face shields in an attept to protect themselves from coronavirus during morning alms."Morning Alms" or Tak Bat is a tradition that goes back many centuries in Thailand, in which each morning, Buddhists provide food to monks as a way to make merit because monks cannot buy food for themselves.The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose to 1,524 on Tuesday, with nine relataed deaths.(Camera: RUNGROJ YONGRIT).FOOTAGE SHOWS BUDDHIST MONKS COLLECTING MORNING ALMS WITH FACE SHIELDS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Mandalay, Burma, Dec 8 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Nyein Chan Naing).- Some 30,000 monks on Sunday received donations such as rice and money during the celebration of the end of Vassa or the Buddhist Lent in the city of Mandalay, in northern Burma.FOOTAGE OF THE CELEBRATIONS ON SUNDAY IN MANDALAY, BURMA.
The 'Wild Boars' football team, who became trapped in a cave in northern Thailand for 18 days a year ago, attend an alms-giving ceremony for Buddhist monks. IMAGES
Bangkok, May 18 (EFE/EPA).- Hundreds of Thai Buddhist monks were vaccinated on Tuesday against COVID-19.The Thai government drives the emergency vaccination against COVID-19 rollout to be inoculated together with proactive mass testing in a bid to combat the coronavirus pandemic, in which thousands new cases of infections and surging of death toll have been reported daily. Bangkok has the highest number of infections amid a third wave of COVID-19 in Thailand. (Camera: RUNGROJ YRONGIT).SHOT LIST: THAI BUDDHIST MONKS RECEIVE SHOTS OF SINOVAC VACCINE DURING A VACCINATION DRIVE AGAINST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AT THE PRIEST HOSPITAL IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Bangkok, May 10 (EFE/EPA).-Thai health authorities tested Buddhist monks for Covid-19 on Monday after one of them tested positive and died at the Wat Huai Khwang temple in Bangkok.The Thai government has increased the number of Covid-19 tests to control the new wave of infections, which adds up to more than 85,000 infected and 421 deaths.(Camera: RUNGROJ YONGRIT)SHOT LIST: NASAL SWAB TEST AT DIN DANG MARKET AND BUDDHIST MONKS BEING TESTED FOR COVID-19 IN A TEMPLE IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.