Footage shows a night market in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, which re-opened this week for the first time since the start of the coronavirus restrictions. <br /><br />Visitors had to use hand sanitiser gel and scan a QR code while allows state officials to track and trace them. The measure means that anyone connected to new outbreaks of Covid-19 can be quickly isolated. <br /><br />The provincial deputy governor Natchudech Wiriyadiloktham said the re-opening of the Walking Street market for the first time since March could encourage domestic tourism, which has suffered during the pandemic.<br /><br />He said: "The spread of Covid-19 has affected both the sellers in this market and the customers who usually come here shopping.<br /><br />"I think that the re-opening is a good factor to boost the local economy and the morale of the residents here in this hard time."<br /><br />Thailand has been slowly easing coronavirus lockdown measures, with no local transmissions for more than two weeks. <br /><br />Businesses that have been allowed to re-open are operating under strict guidelines to limit the risks of spreading the pandemic.
