Thailand puts Covid patients on sleeper trains home to ease crisis in Bangkok
by Rebecca Ratcliffe and Navaon Siradapuvadol in Bang from World news | The Guardian on (#5MNR1)
More than 100 patients have already been sent home as country faces its third and deadliest wave of coronavirus
Thailand has begun using sleeper trains to transport Covid patients out of Bangkok, where hospitals have been overwhelmed by a recent surge in cases.
The first train left the capital on Tuesday, transporting 137 patients who were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms to their home towns in the north-east of the country.
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