PM Orders Agencies to Help Thais Returning from Malaysia

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By Subhabhong Rarueysong

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered security agencies to repatriate Thais stranded in Malaysia after Malaysia required all foreigners who had overstayed their visas to leave the country by April 21 due to the Covid-19 situation there.

 

Deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek said the prime minister was monitoring the Covid-19 situation in the South and had ordered local government agencies to help Thai returnees from Malaysia in adherence with strict Covid-19 screening measures.

 

Thai returnees are being allowed to re-enter the kingdom through four border checkpoints in Narathiwat, Yala, Songkhla and Satun, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. All returnees with a fever were immediately taken by ambulance to hospital while those without symptoms were driven to state quarantine facilities.

 

The Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre has reported that 1,933 beds had been set aside for Covid-19 patients in the five southern border provinces. Each of the provinces received 10,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to inoculate medical workers and people in at-risk groups.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-04-20

 

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[ukrules]

I wonder why they did this considering Thailand is offering continued amnesty to stranded foreigners.

 

Doesn't sound fair unless I'm missing something here.

 

If I was in charge and they did this they should expect some measure of reciprocity.

[natway09]

Stranded foreigners are not Thai. If you had citizenship you woud qualify

same as any other country,,, look after your own first,,,nothing wrong wih that