Committee formed to coordinate Government and EAOs’ COVID-19 response

29 April 2020
Committee formed to coordinate Government and EAOs’ COVID-19 response
RCCS conducting a check-up health on COVID019. Photo: Tai Freedom

The Myanmar government has formed a coordination and cooperation committee to work with Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) in the fight against COVID-19, said an order issued by the President's Office on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.

The presidential order stressed that the government has been making strenuous efforts to adopt measures of prevention, control and treatment of COVID-19 without any discrimination on racial and religious grounds, based on a "No one left behind policy".

Chaired by Dr. Tin Myo Win, vice chairman of the National Reconciliation and Peace Center, the four-member committee was formed with an aim to make the measures effective concerning prevention, control and treatment of COVID-19 in the areas where ethnic armed groups are residing, the order said.