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Happy New Fear: Yangon told to stay home 9 days over holiday
Yangon residents were told not to leave their homes except for food or necessary health care to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections during the holidays. While a regional health committee on Friday said the order for people to stay home would be enforced until April 19, Yangon Chief Minister Phyo Min Thein said the ...
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Elderly Yangon man is Myanmar’s first reported COVID-19 death
Disease control officials this morning confirmed the first known death due to COVID-19 in Myanmar. The 69-year-old man, who had nose cancer, died at 7:25am at Waibargi Hospital,...
Myanmar cancels Burmese New Year Festival, tightens travel from outbreak zones (but not China)
Update: The government on Sunday ordered that anyone who has been to France, Germany, Iran, Italy, or Spain within the past two weeks must submit to 14 days of quarantine at...
Thingyan canceled? Yangon mulls calling it off as 3 die with COVID19-like symptoms
Yangon’s government is considering whether to cancel the annual water festival due to concerns about spread of the coronavirus after three suspected fatalities. While the city...
‘Everyone will die:’ Protesters demand Myanmar lock down border
Hundreds of residents near the border with China took to the streets yesterday to demand tougher health measures as doubts persist about Myanmar’s immunity to COVID-19. Concerns...
On guard, Myanmar asks for travel sector vigilance as Wuhan infections accelerate across region
While a vigilant Myanmar braces for its first case of a deadly Chinese virus and looks to restrict tour groups, infections and fatalities continue to skyrocket in China and the...
NASA pioneers malaria-predicting technology in Myanmar
NASA is developing a new technique to forecast malaria outbreaks in Myanmar from space, as the emergence of new drug-resistant strains in Southeast Asia threatens efforts to...
Dung and Dragons: Myanmar kids dodge cows to play rugby
Sidestepping cowpats and garbage, Myanmar’s only home-grown junior rugby side train on the outskirts of Yangon, preparing to take on children from the city’s...
Flooding in Kachin state displaces more than 1,000
Twenty-seven schools were closed and more than a thousand people displaced by flooding after the Irrawaddy river overran its banks in Myanmar’s northernmost Kachin state...
H1N1 virus claims 41 already, more deaths than entirety of 2017 outbreak
At least 41 people nationwide have died from the H1N1 virus in the past month, more than died in the entirety of 2017, when a major outbreak claimed 38 lives, the Ministry of...