Police confiscated thousands of bottles of alcohol from a shop selling them amid the coronavirus pandemic in Phayao, northern Thailand.<br /><br />Officers raided into the unauthorized factory last Sunday (April 5) and confiscated 3,752 litres of sanitizing distilled alcohol from the factory.<br /><br />Provincial governor Chanok Makphan said the authority only allow authorised dealers to produce the hand sanitizer and they will need to investigate further.<br /><br />He said: "The alcohol we have confiscated were all being sold illegally, evading government taxed and the dealer had not registered his business with the local authority.<br /><br />"It is hard to trace to the exact source of the alcohol but we will investigate more and protect the interests of the country.''<br /><br />Thailand has declared 2,369 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus and 30 deaths. The disease comes from Wuhan, China.<br /><br />Thailand's measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic include a ban on all passenger flights, mandatory face masks, a national 10pm curfew and the closure of all non-essential customer-facing businesses.
