COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Myanmar on 23 March 2020.[6]

COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar
COVID-19 Outbreak Cases in Myanmar.svg
DiseaseCOVID-19
LocationMyanmar
Arrival date23 March 2020
(4 years and 9 months)
Confirmed cases82,236[1]
Recovered60,965[2]
Deaths
1,784[3][4][5]

Cases

On 23 March, Myanmar confirmed its first and second COVID-19 cases.[7]

On 24 March, Myanmar has launched a community lockdown in one village from Chin State to control the spread of the COVID-19.[8]

On 25 March, Myanmar confirmed its third COVID-19 case.[9]

On 31 March 2020, the Committee for Corona Virus Disease 19 (COVID-19), headed by First Vice President Myint Swe and made up of members from many union ministries, was formed by President Win Myint, to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Myanmar.[10]

Aide

Vietnam announced it would send $50,000 to Myanmar worth supplies, including medical tests, to aid the Burmese authorities handling the outbreak, becoming the first country to do so.[11]

References

  1. "Number of Covid-19 cases rises to 5 in Myanmar". The Star Online. 27 March 2020. https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/03/27/number-of-covid-19-cases-rises-to-5-in-myanmar. Retrieved 27 March 2020. 
  2. "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surveillance Dashboard (Myanmar)". Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  3. COVID -19 ရောဂါပိုး တွေ့ရှိထားသူ မင်္ဂလာတောင်ညွန့်မြို့နယ်မှ နှာခေါင်းကင်ဆာရောဂါသည် လူနာအမှတ် ၅ သေဆုံး. 31 March 2020. https://news-eleven.com/article/167035. 
  4. ပြည်ဆေးရုံကြီး ၌ ဆေးကုသနေသော လူနာအမှတ်(၁၇)ကွယ်လွန်. 8 April 2020. https://7day.news/detail?id=183785. 
  5. အသက် ၆၃ နှစ်အရွယ် လူနာအမှတ် (၁၆) အမျိုးသမီးကွယ်လွန်. 8 April 2020. https://7day.news/detail?id=183797. 
  6. hermesauto (2020-03-24). "Myanmar confirms first two coronavirus cases". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  7. "COVID-19 ရောဂါ စောင့်ကြပ်ကြည့်ရှုမှုနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ခြင်း (23-3-2020, 11:45 PM)". Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar) (in မြန်မာဘာသာ). 23 March 2020. Archived from the original on 25 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  8. "တီးတိန်မှ ရွာတရွာကို အဝင်အထွက်စတင်ပိတ် (23-3-2020, 11:45 PM)". [myanmar-now.org] (in မြန်မာဘာသာ). 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  9. "COVID-19 ရောဂါ စောင့်ကြပ်ကြည့်ရှုမှုနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ခြင်း (25-3-2020, 01:00 AM)". Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar) (in မြန်မာဘာသာ). 25 March 2020. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  10. "Myanmar leader forms new anti-COVID-19 committee". The Myanmar Times. 2020-03-31. Archived from the original on 2020-04-11. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
  11. Hannah Nguyen (11 April 2020). "Vietnam delivers $50,000 to Myanmar for COVID-19 fighting". Vietnamtimes.org.vn. Retrieved 2020-05-09.