The daily test positivity rate of COVID-19 is remaining below 5 percent in Myanmar since the third week of December, 2020, according to the data from the Health and Sports Ministry on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.

The daily test positivity rate significantly dropped to 2.2 percent on Tuesday from 4.6 percent on Dec.18, the ministry's data showed.

Dr. Than Naing Soe, director of Health Literacy Promotion Unit of the Public Health Department stressed that the patients need to be sent to hospitals in time as one-third of the COVID-19 deaths are those who were sent to hospitals late and 92 percent of the deaths are patients with underlying diseases so far.

A total of 448 new infection cases and 13 deaths were confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours, according to the ministry's latest release.