Myanmar sees one more COVID-19 case bringing total to 293

25 June 2020
Myanmar sees one more COVID-19 case bringing total to 293
People walk in the downtown area of Yangon on June 10, 2020, as Myanmar's economy reopens following restrictions to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP

The Myanmar authorities continue to take the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic seriously.

Yesterday evening, the country saw one more case in Buthidaung Township, pushing the official registered cases to 293 cases, with six deaths, and 208 recoveries.

Myanmar can be considered to be doing well when compared with other countries in the Southeast Asia region and extremely well when compared to such countries as the UK and the United States of America.

In comparison, Thailand had 3,158 cases and 58 deaths, the UK 306,862 cases and 43,081 deaths and the United States with 2,462,708 cases and 124,282 deaths.

This is no time to let one’s guard down but the Myanmar authorities have been slowly rolling back restrictions to allow life to return to some form of normal.

Care has been taken in terms of Myanmar nationals returning home and going into quarantine, with concern that there is still a significant number of people lining up to come back and that quarantine facilities are limited.

As DVB reported, if more returnees arrive in Yangon, it will be difficult to have enough facility quarantine centres. That was a concern of an official in charge of a quarantine centre. As a hundred migrant workers returnees came back each time, the new quarantine facilities are in need urgently. Currently there are reportedly four quarantine centers in University campus, Kabaraye township accommodating 450 returnees from Thailand, China, Nepal and France.