"Since June 2, bus service has been reduced to every Tuesday and Friday from Mo Chit bus station in Bangkok to the Mae Sot-Myawady border as fewer workers are returning home. The Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok has urged migrant workers to register and buy tickets at the embassy office to avoid trouble. It said that from May 1 to June 4, 16,000 workers had returned to Myanmar through Myawady. Thailand announced on June 1 that despite extending its state-of-emergency until the end of June, it would not prevent an estimated 34,000 Myanmar migrant workers from returning home. An estimated 60,000 workers planned to return from Thailand due to the economic downturn caused by the pandemic. U Peter Nyunt Maung, deputy chair of the Myanmar Overseas Employment Agencies Federation, said the workers would likely not be able to get their jobs back, as the Thai government would prioritise giving jobs to its own people when its economy reopens. He added that some 65,000 workers who were trying to get into Thailand when it closed its borders due to COVID-19 in January may also be out of work. Aside from Myawady, workers were also expected to return from Thailand through Kawthoung in Tanintharyi Region..."