More than 1,000 Burmese migrant workers converged at a border checkpoint in northern Thailand to return to their home country.<br /><br />Thousands have already fled after the borders were closed last Saturday (March 21).<br /><br />However, there were still a substantial number of people who had just arrived at the border in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand on Wednesday (March 25) morning. <br /><br />The locals sheriff had to involve and coordinate with the Burmese borders to help them out.<br /><br />Footage shows the moment when they were eventually allowed to cross the border in the afternoon with the escort of both countries' officers.<br /><br />The sheriff Somsak Kanakham said they wanted to help the workers to go back to their country.<br /><br />He said: "We received help from the Burnese sending back Thai people before so I did not mind doing the same thing for their people."<br /><br />However, it was reported that many of the workers were not yet allowed to cross the border and they will be held for quarantine to check they are healthy.
