Brits stuck in Laos are reportedly being advised to pay around £1,500 for a commercial flight back to the UK. It's understood around 90 UK citizens are thought to be trying to get out of the south-east Asian country.
Laos has has gone into lockdown despite relatively few cases of coronavirus having been diagnosed there so far. On Tuesday, Britons were contacted by the embassy in the Lao capital Vientiane to let them know they had organised passage back to the UK, via South Korea, with a flight on April 3 via Lao Airlines and charter flight company Ticket Lao.
But with tickets costing around £1,550 - and some claiming to have been quoted a price closer to £1,800 because of credit card fees - not everybody there can afford it.