YANGON, Jul 12 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar’s Health and Sports Ministry, imposed a stay-at-home order in 18 more towns across the country, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the state-run media reported yesterday.
The stay-at-home order, which will take effect today, will be applied to six towns in Bago region, and 12 towns in Yangon region, because of the recent increasing COVID-19 infections.
So far, the ministry has imposed the stay-at-home order in 63 towns across the country.
According to the ministry’s figures yesterday, the number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has increased to 192,213, after 3,461 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours.
In addition, 82 new deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 3,838.
A total of 146,358 patients have been discharged from hospitals, and over 2.86 million samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far, the figures showed.– NNN-MNA
