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Samut Prakan, May 5 (EFE).- The traditional Buddhist temples in Thailand have adopted innovative measures like setting up sanitizing tunnels and making masks to join the fight against COVID-19, apart from holding special prayers for the victims.Those visiting the Wat Chak Daeng temple outside Bangkok have to pass through a tunnel where they are sprayed with disinfectants, and monks equipped with masks and visors check their temperature before allowing them to enter.Not only have the monks added an orange mask to their attire - which has remained largely unchanged since the times of Buddha (2,500 years ago) - but they also make their own sanitizers and distribute food to those in need.Last year Wat Chak Daeng began producing orange robes with threads made out of Polyethylene terephthalate, a type of plastic sorted on the premises and later sent to a recycling plant.Subsequently they also began making air pollution masks which have now been adapted to provide protection from germs amid the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Camera; GAZPAR RUIZ-CANELA/DIEGO AZUBEL).FOOTAGE SHOWS ALMSGIVING IN SAMUT PRAKAN, SOUTH OF BANGKOK, THAILAND AND MONKS OF WAT CHAK DAENG TEMPLE CARRING OUT COVID-19 SCREENING MEASURES AND PRODUCING MASKS.SOUNDBITES: PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO, 54, THE HEAD MONK OF WAT CHAK DAENG TEMPLE; AND CHAMNANVET, 35, A MONK AT THE TEMPLE (IN THAI). TRANSLATIONS: 1.) PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO: For those who want to come to the temple, we will take their temperature first. Then, they will go through the sterilization tunnel and they will have to clean their hands before entering. If the temperature is not within the acceptable degree, they have to stay at the entrance. We also do a registration for visitors who enter or exit the temple. (00:22-00:44).2.) PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO: For the monks who come from risk areas, we place them under quarantine for 14 days. They do not have to participate in the communal activities of the temple. It does not matter if that monk is ill or not, he will have to remain under quarantine. (00:51-01:02).3.) PRANOM DHAMMALANGKARO: Now we can produce the material for the mask. Before, we designed masks to protect PM2.5 particles. But with the COVID-19 situation going on now, We are making them for our monks, for those who reside in our temple, for the communities nearby, and for other temples. Some were sent to the hospitals as well (01:13-01:33).3.) CHAMNANVET: You can read these characters written below as" YA NI RAT TA NANG "which is part of a Buddhist chant from the Rattana Sutra, the chant that Thais believe can drive out ghosts, demons, or disease.(01:44-02:00).5.) CHAMNANVET: Let's say these masks itself can protect you from the infection, but the inscription on them reflect the belief and serves to remind people (who wear them) not to live a careless life ( 02:10-02:26).
Bangkok, Mar 31 (EFE/EPA).-Thai Buddhist monks from Wat Matchantikaram temple in Bangkok have produced their own face shields in an attept to protect themselves from coronavirus during morning alms."Morning Alms" or Tak Bat is a tradition that goes back many centuries in Thailand, in which each morning, Buddhists provide food to monks as a way to make merit because monks cannot buy food for themselves.The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 rose to 1,524 on Tuesday, with nine relataed deaths.(Camera: RUNGROJ YONGRIT).FOOTAGE SHOWS BUDDHIST MONKS COLLECTING MORNING ALMS WITH FACE SHIELDS IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Bangkok, May 18 (EFE/EPA).- Hundreds of Thai Buddhist monks were vaccinated on Tuesday against COVID-19.The Thai government drives the emergency vaccination against COVID-19 rollout to be inoculated together with proactive mass testing in a bid to combat the coronavirus pandemic, in which thousands new cases of infections and surging of death toll have been reported daily. Bangkok has the highest number of infections amid a third wave of COVID-19 in Thailand. (Camera: RUNGROJ YRONGIT).SHOT LIST: THAI BUDDHIST MONKS RECEIVE SHOTS OF SINOVAC VACCINE DURING A VACCINATION DRIVE AGAINST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AT THE PRIEST HOSPITAL IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Bangkok, May 10 (EFE/EPA).-Thai health authorities tested Buddhist monks for Covid-19 on Monday after one of them tested positive and died at the Wat Huai Khwang temple in Bangkok.The Thai government has increased the number of Covid-19 tests to control the new wave of infections, which adds up to more than 85,000 infected and 421 deaths.(Camera: RUNGROJ YONGRIT)SHOT LIST: NASAL SWAB TEST AT DIN DANG MARKET AND BUDDHIST MONKS BEING TESTED FOR COVID-19 IN A TEMPLE IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Nakhon Pathom, May 3 (EFE/EPA).- Thai temple offered Monday a free cremation rites for COVID-19 victims after many temples had refused to perform funeral services due to the community concern and lingering social stigma amid the rising death toll.Thailand has recorded over 70,000 COVID-19 cases and 276 deaths since the beginning of pandemic. (Camera:RUNGROJ YONGRIT).SHOT LIST: A CREMATION CEREMONY OF A COVID-19 VICTIM AT WAT PHAI LOM TEMPLE IN NAKHON PATHOM PROVINCE, THAILAND.
Bangkok, Apr 7 (EFE/EPA).- Buddhist monks of Bangkok’s temples on Wednesday were vaccinated against Covid-19 by a Public Health Ministry mobile vaccination unit.The authorities of Thailand's capital city have ordered from Tuesday the closure of all bars and entertainment venues in three central districts for two weeks amid an outbreak of Covid-19 cases linked to a series of establishments.Bangkok saw an increase in cases over the weekend after at least 45 customers who had frequented several bars in the popular nightlife areas of Ekkamai and Thong Lor were found to be infected with the virus. The closure order affects 196 venues. (Camera: DIEGO AZUBEL).SHOT LIST: THAI BUDDHIST MONKS RECEIVE SHOTS OF THE VACCINE AGAINST COVID-19 DEVELOPED BY ASTRAZENECA, DURING A VACCINATION DRIVE FOLLOWING A NEW CLUSTER, AT A BUDDHIST TEMPLE IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
Bangkok, Mar 31 (EFE/EPA).-Thai Buddhist monks on Wednesday were given the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines as part of the national inoculation program for Buddhist monks. (Camera: RUNGROJ YONGRIT).SHOT LIST: THAI BUDDHIST MONKS RECEIVE ASTRAZENECA'S COVID-19 VACCINES AT A TEMPLE IN BANGKOK, THAILAND.
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