YANGON (AFP): Myanmar confirmed its first cases of coronavirus late Monday (March 23) after weeks of increasing scepticism over the under-developed South-east Asian nation's claims to be free of the disease.
The country of 54 million people had been the world's largest country by population not to report a single case of the Covid-19 pandemic that has confined more than 1.7 billion to their homes.
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