Vehicles carry migrant workers (Source: thainews.prd.go.th)Bangkok (NNT/VNA) - As borders closed, many migrant workers from Myanmarworking in Thailand tried to return to their home country.
Somedidn’t make it in time, and are now stranded at the Mae Sai Thailand-Myanmarborder crossing in Chiang Rai, waiting for Myanmar authorities to reopen theborder.
Theauthorities decided to seal off the border in an effort to stop the spread of theCOVID-19 pandemic.
Thestranded workers have been held in quarantine for a period of time at Phra ThatDoi Wao temple in Mae Sai district. Myanmar authorities allowed them to crossthe border from Thailand. Twenty-three vehicles were used to transport the workersfrom the temple to the second Thailand-Myanmar Friendship bridge connecting MaeSai with Myanmar’s Tachileik province.
As manyas 181 Myanmar workers plus 10 Myanmar nationals received a medical screeningwhile crossing the border. None of them showed any obvious symptoms ofCOVID-19. They are now in a quarantine facility in Myanmar locatedapproximately 2km from the border, where they will be held for 14days.
Myanmarauthorities have announced they will not allow any person to cross the borderuntil 15th April, as they are waiting for their quarantine facility to free up.
Thereare still a number of Myanmar nationals left in Chiang Rai, which is expectedto be the final group, as the province’s communicable diseases committee hasalready banned transportation of migrant workers into the province./.
Somedidn’t make it in time, and are now stranded at the Mae Sai Thailand-Myanmarborder crossing in Chiang Rai, waiting for Myanmar authorities to reopen theborder.
Theauthorities decided to seal off the border in an effort to stop the spread of theCOVID-19 pandemic.
Thestranded workers have been held in quarantine for a period of time at Phra ThatDoi Wao temple in Mae Sai district. Myanmar authorities allowed them to crossthe border from Thailand. Twenty-three vehicles were used to transport the workersfrom the temple to the second Thailand-Myanmar Friendship bridge connecting MaeSai with Myanmar’s Tachileik province.
As manyas 181 Myanmar workers plus 10 Myanmar nationals received a medical screeningwhile crossing the border. None of them showed any obvious symptoms ofCOVID-19. They are now in a quarantine facility in Myanmar locatedapproximately 2km from the border, where they will be held for 14days.
Myanmarauthorities have announced they will not allow any person to cross the borderuntil 15th April, as they are waiting for their quarantine facility to free up.
Thereare still a number of Myanmar nationals left in Chiang Rai, which is expectedto be the final group, as the province’s communicable diseases committee hasalready banned transportation of migrant workers into the province./.
VNA
