Covid-19 patients had to sleep in a flooded quarantine center after continuous rain drenched eastern Thailand.

Footage shows the patients sleeping in the facility swamped with dirty, ankle-deep water in Chanthaburi province on October 12. People who test positive for Covid-19 and have symptoms are sent to quarantine hospitals.

Wut Khunchai, who filmed the scene, said: ‘The flood has receded, but all of us are still watching out as it has been raining every day.’

Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia such as Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines are in the middle of their tropical monsoon rainy season, which lasts until October or November. Soaring temperatures reaching 35 degrees Celsius are often followed by powerful tropical storms with thunder, lightning, rain and flash floods.

Thailand suffers from regular flash floods due to the chronic under-investment in its city infrastructure, with drains and sewers overwhelmed with water.