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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand allowed shopping malls in the capital Bangkok to reopen on Wednesday and restaurants to operate at half capacity, after nearly three months of tough restrictions aimed at containing the country\u2019s worst coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>

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The move comes after infections numbers started falling in the middle of last month and with the government under pressure here to ease lockdown measures due to the impact on the economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThai citizens like me…will come back to normal life,\u201d said Wanvipa Luepromchian, who was getting her hair cut in a salon in the Siam Paragon mall in Bangkok.<\/p>\n

The government in July here started imposing strict measures including closing malls and prohibiting restaurant dining as the number of new infections surged due to the Delta variant.<\/p>\n

At its peak, authorities reported over 23,000 new cases in a single day in mid-August.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the health ministry reported 14,802 new cases and 252 additional deaths. Thailand has overall reported 1.2 million cases and 11,841 fatalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you (the government) lockdown everything that\u2019s so dangerous for the economy in Thailand,\u201d Wanvipa said.<\/p>\n

Last week, the government also allowed here some domestic flights to resume.<\/p>\n

Restaurants dining can also restart, but at half the capacity to allow for social distancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cCustomers need to get temperatures checked before entering and keep social distancing with only two people on one table, but if they are family, they can be seated together,\u201d said restaurant manager Nichapha Jiwvaganont.<\/p>\n

While a night time curfew remains in place in Bangkok, the partial reopening will be supportive for Thailand\u2019s struggling economy.<\/p>\n

A joint business group on Wednesday raised here its 2021 economic forecast from between a 0.5% contraction to 1% growth from a contraction of 1.5% to 0% growth as curbs were relaxed.<\/p>\n

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