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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Labour pact allows 160k migrants in | History Defined

Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin

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.

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