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		</div><p>More than a hundred participants in a party in a bar on a popular Thai island, including 89 foreigners, received suspended jail terms and fines on Thursday for breaking national coronavirus restrictions.</p>
<p>Police arrested the 109 partygoers in a raid on Tuesday night on the Three Sixty Bar on Koh Phangan in southern Thailand.</p>
<p>The foreigners are from more than 10 countries, including the US, the UK, Russia, Switzerland and Denmark.</p>
<p>The island in Surat Thani province is a popular destination for young backpacking travellers and is known for its all-night, full-moon beach parties.</p>
<p>However, Thailand barred virtually all tourists from entering the country in April 2020 because of the coronavirus.</p>
<p>Police said they tracked plans for the party on social media, where the bar promoted the event to celebrate its fifth anniversary.</p>
<p>The court conducted the trial over a video link.</p>
<p>The judge sentenced each defendant to one month in jail, which was suspended if they have good behaviour for a year. He also fined them 4,000 baht (around £98) each.</p>
<p>The Thai organiser and two Thai bartenders were given fines of 10,000 baht (£244) and two years in jail, also suspended for a year.</p>
<p>One of the partygoers, Russian Dmitry Kopylov, apologised on Thursday for his actions.</p>
<p>“I wanted to say sorry,” he said. “Nobody wants to make any kind of problem or do something wrong.”</p>
<p>The party organiser said he had made an honest mistake.</p>
<p>“I thought Surat Thani province was in the Covid-19 green zone. We didn’t have any new cases for 14 days. So I thought we were allowed to organise an activity,” Pongdaran Limochakul said.</p>
<p>Until recently, Thailand appeared to have the disease under control, with very few cases of local transmission. But a new outbreak has led to cases in many provinces, forcing a reimposition of some restrictions.</p>
<p>On Thursday, authorities reported 756 new cases, pushing Thailand’s total to 16,221.</p>
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