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Without job in Myanmar, Covid-19-infected man pays $2,155 to illegally return to Vietnam
By Cuu Long December 31, 2020 | 08:00 am GMT+7
Border guards in An Giang Province with a sniffer dog patrol around the border area with Cambodia, August 2020. Photo by VnExpress/An Phu.
A man from Vinh Long Province, who illegally entered Vietnam and was diagnosed with Covid-19, reportedly paid VND50 million ($2,155) to a people smuggling gang to return home.
The 32-year-old, one of six people who illegally entered from Cambodia through An Giang Province on December 24, tested positive for the coronavirus two days later, but had been anxious and worried the gang would hurt his family if he revealed its operations to local authorities, his mother Tran Thi Hang said via phone from a quarantine facility in Mang Thit District.