Health & Safety

Yangon, Myanmar – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) delivers 40,000 COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits to the Ministry of Health and Sports to support the Government of Myanmar’s effort to prevent transmission and respond to the COVID-19 pandemi…

Myanmar reported 1,308 more COVID-19 cases yesterday, bringing the tally to 101,739, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has vowed to resolve delays in COVID-19 relief cash assistance for low-income families amid a growing public outcry and some protests over glitches in the popular assistance program.In the state counselor’s first major p…

– Myanmar’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, on Tuesday, announced the extension of COVID-19 restrictive measures until Nov 30, to curb the spread of the virus.The extension will be applied to the temporary entry restrictions for all travellers from foreign c…

WASHINGTON – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said that an agreement with the Trump administration on a new

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Sunday that there are nearly 39.7 million COVID-19 infections worldwide and 1.1 million

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar increased to 27,974 as of yesterday, according to a release from the Ministry of Health and Sports.A total of 1,910 more COVID-19 confirmed cases were reported in the country.The death toll reached 646 with…

HIGHLIGHTS• The rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in Myanmar and subsequent prevention and control measures continue to limit the ability of humanitarian actors to reach displaced people and other people in need of assistance in Rakhine,Chin, Shan, Kayi…

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has increased to 17,794, as of Sunday, after 1,294 new cases were reported, according to a release from the Ministry of Health and Sports.The death toll reached 412, with 41 newly reported deaths on Sunday…

Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) produces monthly update for MRCS’s COVID-19 activities. The monthly updates, produced for September 2020, provide valuable insights on acti…

Health workers fighting a coronavirus resurgence across Myanmar face serious sanitation problems in the country’s largest city and a military conflict that is pushing fresh waves of refugees into overcrowded refugee camps in Rakhine state, straining th…

YANGON The total number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar increased to 10,734 as of Sunday, according to a release from the Ministry of Health and Sports.A total of 743 more COVID-19 confirmed cases were reported on Sunday. The death toll of COVID-19 reache…

Authorities in the Yangon region, Myanmar’s main population and commercial center, imposed expanded stay-at-home orders Monday to combat a spike of coronavirus cases in the nation of 54 million.As of Monday, Myanmar registered 6,151 confirmed COVID-19 …

– Myanmar reported 11 more COVID-19 deaths last night, bringing the death toll in the country to 92 in total, according to a press release from the Health and Sports Ministry.A total of 278 more confirmed COVID-19 cases were also reported in the countr…

Myanmar reported 73 new cases of COVID-19, with six more deaths this morning, said a release from the Health and Sports Ministry.With the newly confirmed cases, the number of the infections rose to 3,894 in the country, so far.Six more COVID-19 patient…