Number of Covid-19 cases rises to 5 in Myanmar


  • Myanmar
  • Friday, 27 Mar 2020

Staff clean the Shwedagon pagoda compound amid concerns of the spread of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus in Yangon on March 26, 2020. - AFP

The newly confirmed cases include a Myanmar-born US citizen aged 33 who was living in Mandalay region. He arrived from the United States on March 19.

Another patient is a 69-year-old Myanmar national who arrived in Yangon on March 14 after his one-month stay in Australia for health treatment and a four-day stay in Singapore.

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