Laos migrant workers clear quarantine, return home, after crossing back from Thailand

In this file picture on March 23, it shows migrants workers from Laos lining up with their belongings at the immigration post by the second Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge in Mukdahan, as thousands of people attempted to cross from Thailand into Laos as the border crossing was being closed due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. - AFP

VIENTIANE: More than 6,000 Laos migrant workers held in camps in quarantine after returning from Thailand have now gone home, with smaller numbers still crossing the border each day and unknown numbers still stranded in Thailand, Laos sources said on Monday (May 11).

The 6,000 recently clearing quarantine were the latest batch of some 20,000 who have crossed into Savannakhet province out of a total of 27,000 who have returned from Thailand and gone through quarantine since April.