requested to return to myanmar because of job losses and are returning to myanmar voluntarily. this statement contradicts the appeals we are hearing on the ground. >> translator: i want to request the chinese government to postpone the plan. we want to stay longer here and don't want to be sent back home. >> reporter: it is unclear if any of the people we spoke to have tested positive for covid-19. meanwhile, on the other side of the border, chinese migrant workers are rushing back into china from myanmar, fleeing war and covid-19, they find themselves stuck in a long queue outside of the border gate, waiting to be processed. hi-long, not his real name, worked as a free lance fighter, hired by a northern militia government in myanmar and did not want to wait any longer. >> translator: the epidemic control measures were very poor there. the medical facility standard was poor, too. if i get covid, i don't think they would be able to save me. >> hai long says he walked for