Footage shows a police raid on a lesbian nightclub allegedly breaking coronavirus rules in Pattaya, eastern Thailand.<br /><br />Officers acting on complaints from neighbours stormed The Blossom Fifty Nine Club at 3:30am on Sunday morning (Aug 9).<br /><br />More than 50 mostly female revellers were checked for drugs and had their ID cards examined to check they were overage.<br /><br />Police claimed that there were no temperature checks at the entrance, social distancing was being flouted, some revellers were not wearing masks and hand sanitiser was not available.<br /><br />Banglamung district Sheriff Amnat Charoensri said the venue was operating without ''any fear of the law''.<br /><br />He said that the owner would be questioned on suspicion of selling alcohol without a license and breaking the region's Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Committee which had been put in place to stop the spread of Covid-19.<br /><br />The Sheriff said: ''We have sent the owner to be questioned by police. This should be a warning for other entertainment venues in the area that they must co-operate and follow the laws.''<br /><br />Thailand has not had any local transmissions of Covid-19 for more than two months but the country remains under a State of Emergency due to the pandemic. <br /><br />Dr. Taweesin Visanuyothin from the country's Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said that further easing of restrictions could happen at the end of August.<br /><br />However, health chiefs are pushing to keep borders closed to tourists until 2021 at the earliest amid fears of a second wave of infections being imported from abroad.
