Thai police check the temperature of drivers at a checkpoint after the country entered a state of emergency.<br /><br />Thousands of people began leaving the capital Bangkok and returning to their provincial homes after businesses were closed on March 22.<br /><br />The exodus caused the number of Covid-19 coronavirus patients outside of Bangkok to surge and the government put the country under the state of emergency to stop the spreading.<br /><br />Footage from Sukhothai, central Thailand, shows the traffic police and the medical staff at the checkpoint screening travellers at the province's border yesterday morning (March 30)<br /><br />The more strict screening process has been applied to stop the Bangkok residents spreading the virus to other provinces.<br /><br />Sukhothai province has two border checkpoints waiting to check the travellers' body temperatures and contain them if they show symptoms.<br /><br />Sukhothai has three cases and another 1,821 people are under the observation, of which 1,418 of them had returned from the capital Bangkok.
