More than 160,000 migrant workers will be brought into Thailand without requiring quarantine courtesy of a newly signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) in a bid to stem illegal border crossers searching for employment, according to the Labour Ministry.
As of Wednesday, quarantine has been waived for migrant workers coming into the country via the MoU signed with Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, provided they have been double-dosed with vaccines and test negative for Covid-19.
In total, employers have applied to import 236,012 migrant workers from the three neighbouring countries. Of them, 165,376 are from Myanmar, 52,428 from Cambodia and 18,208 from Laos.
Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin said the…
