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From Cold War to coronavirus, Thailand’s hero grandma fights to protect villagers from Covid-19 | South China Morning Post

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For the past 38 years, Surin Makradee has been giving basic advice to people in her village in central Thailand’s Ang Thong province as a village health care volunteer. Now during the Covid-19 pandemic, the 77-year-old is joining over one million community workers who go door-to-door doing temperature checks and tea…

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