RFA, 5 Jan 2021
Thousands of Cambodian migrant laborers are returning home from Thailand following a second outbreak of the deadly virus there over the past week, and aid groups are warning of food shortages among long jobless workers, the migrants and supporters told RFA.
From April to mid-December, Thailand was reporting daily confirmed cases in the single and low double digits. But in late December, daily totals spiked into the mid to high hundreds, reaching a high of 844 on Monday according to WHO statistics.
Thailand, the largest economy of continental Southeast Asia, has been a major employer of migrant workers from neighboring countries such as Cambodia, and Myanmar, hosting some 650,000 Cambodians, and several million Myanmar citizens.
The lockdown to fight the coronavirus suddenly left many workers unemployed, and stranded with not enough money to return to their home countries.
In Cambodia, civil society groups are urging the government to step in and support migrants so that the migrants are not forced to return home and can remain in Thailand.
Sor Piseth, a grocery store worker from Cambodia’s western Pursat province, told RFA’s Khmer Service Tuesday that his family stopped working about 10 days ago and have remained indoors at their home in Pattaya, about a two-hour drive from Bangkok.
In full: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/migrants-01052021211136.html
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