Health officials in Chiang Rai Province have reported over a hundred Thai Nationals have been repatriated form Myanmar’s Tachilek. Twenty eight men, seventy six women and three children crossed the border into Mae Sai district on Friday.
Five of the Thai people who returned have reportedly tested positive for Covid-19.
The figure was higher than Thai officials were expecting. Their Myanmar counterparts had said earlier that only 59 Thais would be sent back to the country.
Of the 107 people who crossed, only seven were returning legally. The others had crossed the border illegally to work at entertainment venues in Tachilek earlier. Those locations have since become Covid-19 hotspots as Myanmar grapples with the rapid spread of the disease.
Myanmar has recorded nearly 105,000 cases of Covid-19 — all but 800 of them since the start of September — and 2,200 deaths.
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