Fish vendors wearing face shields to help curb of the spread of the coronavirus wait for customers at a local bazaar on Oct. 22, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. - AP
YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar has seen a gradual decline in daily testing positivity rate of Covid-19 so far, a health expert told Xinhua on Thursday (Oct 22).
"The percentage of positive of the tests has declined to around 8 per cent starting the first week of this month when it was around 19 to 21 per cent in previous two months," said professor Soe Lwin Nyein, a public health expert and senior advisor of the Health and Sports Ministry.
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