Health authorities in Myanmar on Wednesday reported 106 new cases of the novel coronavirus, the highest single-day surge since the first case was detected in the country in March, Anadolu Agency reported.
According to the Health and Sports Ministry, 93 new virus cases were found in the western Rakhine State, home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims.
Rakhine state’s capital Sittwe has been under semi-lockdown and nighttime curfew since Aug. 20, following a spike in local transmission of cases with 180 infections in just 11 days.
A two-month-old baby girl, the youngest patient infected by COVID-19 in Myanmar, was among the new cases, said the ministry.