YANGON, Oct 29 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar’s Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19, yesterday announced the reopening of schools across the country from next month.
According to the committee’s announcement, all basic education schools, including private schools and Buddhist monastic schools, will reopen on Nov 1, excluding those in 46 townships of nine regions and states, based on the analysis on the test positivity rates per 100,000 people, in the past 14 days.
As part of the anti-pandemic measures, the authorities re-closed all schools across the country since early July.
The Ministry of Health has been administering COVID-19 vaccine doses to middle and high school students, aged over 12 years, since Oct 12.
The number of COVID-19 infections has risen to 497,700, after the country reported 799 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, according to the health ministry’s release, yesterday.
To date, the number of recoveries has reached 463,349, and over 4.81 million samples have been tested for COVID-19, while 19 more deaths were newly reported, bringing the death toll to 18,622, so far.
Myanmar detected its first two COVID-19 cases on Mar 23, last year.– NNN-MNA
