21 more staff at Bangkok karaoke shop found to have Covid
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published : 30 Dec 2020 at 18:15
38 New Year revellers and monks wait for trains at Hua Lamphong station on Wednesday. Bangkok recorded 17 new cases on Wednesday, bringing the total to 125, before a further 21 people linked to a karaoke shop and restaurant also tested positive. (Photo by Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)
Twenty-one more employees of a karaoke shop in Bangkok visited by an infected person from Nonthaburi province have tested positive for Covid-19.
Thirty-nine of Nong Mai Karaoke s 75 staff were tested for the novel coronavirus, and 21 were found to have the virus, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) spokesman Pongsakorn Kwanmuang said.
Cher calls for a Thai zoo to rehome a sad, single female gorilla who has lived in a cage at a shopping mall for 30 years Naina Bhardwaj Cher seen leaving The Langham Hotel before heading to BBC Broadcasting House in London, England on December 9, 2020. Cher has called for a gorilla named Bua Noi who has spent over 30 years living above a shopping mall in Thailand to be rehomed. Pata Zoo is located on the 6th and 7th floors of the Pata Pinklao Department Store in Bangkok and is where Bua Noi has spent her life in a cage since 1988, according to The Guardian.
Pop icon and animal activist Cher is on a mission to save Bua Noi, the last remaining gorilla in Thailand, who has spent three decades living above a Thai shopping center.
After recently spearheading a successful social media campaign to free world s loneliest elephant from a Pakistani zoo, the 74-year-old revealed she is already working to free another imprisoned animal living in abysmal conditions.
In an appeal to the good people of Bangkok, she asked for assistance from her fans to help her stop the torturing of innocent animals at Pata Zoo on Twitter.
Animal activist: Cher is on a mission to save Bua Noi, the last remaining gorilla in Thailand, who has spent three decades living above a Thai shopping center; seen in 2018
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Artist Cher is also a vocal animal rights activist who has co-founded the charity Free the Wild.
Recently, she helped rescue an elephant named Kaavan at a zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, and transferred him to a sanctuary.
Now, she hopes to do the same for a gorilla in Bangkok, Thailand.
The Goddess of Pop is no one-hit wonder. After freeing Kaavan the elephant from a zoo in Islamabad, Cher has set her sights on a gorilla named Buanoi who has spent the last three decades at the top of a Bangkok shopping mall.