From Cold War to coronavirus, Thailand’s hero grandma fights to protect villagers from Covid-19

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 teaching people how to protect themselves from the deadly coronavirus.