If you can get there then mukdahan is just an hour and a half away which is where that border is

I see. Do you have a laos visa in your passport already and a health certificate?

I border bounced their yesterday with a Lao visa in my passport (obtained before they stopped issuing them) and also a medical certificate to show.

On the side exiting laos there was only one station open to get the exit stamp and most everything closed down.

If you have a visa already you need to get there asap! They could close the border at anytime.

@Sasipa **********

you need to get this certificate within 48 hours of you applying for the visa?

Did you hear that they specifically for sure need a COVID certificate with the lab?

@Patrick *******

. I guess it would better to phrase it a COVID-19 certificate without lab results as apposed to one with lab results. I went to a hospital today and they said they were going to charge me 11,000 baht for that test and it would take 4 days to receive. They said it was not at all necessary based on me not having any symptoms and also not having travel history in the countries that are being most affected. So I did just end up getting the COVID-19 certificate WITHOUT the lab. They need to swab the mucus membranes and when you don't even have a runny nose or anything there really isn't much to be able to analyze I gather.

You are a good man for admitting that! Yeah no one really knows. It's maddening. It would be easiest to border bounce at Nong Khai / Vientiane for me.

I don't Tod. I only have 1 by air. So you think it's a big risk spending more time in Laos trying to get a visa? Maybe get trapped in Laos :/

I wasn't able to make it there today

@Tod ********

. But I did get a visa from the Lao embassy. So planning to go to the border tomorrow. Still debating on whether to just bounce for a border run in and out as apposed to trying to get a visa at the consulate. Do you know if you can come into Laos and go back to the Thai side immediately or do you need to spend more time in Laos?

@Patrick *******

normal health certificates or ones specifically ruling out covid-19?