People walk past a trash can with a sign reading "The danger is not over - Keep your distance" in the Swedish city of Uppsala (Photo: AFP)
25 October 2020
Sweden is seeing an uptick in coronavirus infections and introducing targeted measures,...
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25 October 2020
India and Myanmar have increased engagement to collaborate on joint development of COVID...
A volunteer from Clean Yangon carries food to give low income people from a slum area in Yangon, Myanmar, 05 April 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
25 October 2020
Countries across the globe, including Myanmar, are facing the twin challenges of...
A street is deserted near the Eiffel Tower, at 9pm as part of a city-wide night time curfew in Paris, France, 23 October 2020. Photo: EPA
24 October 2020
The EU's disease control agency warned on Friday that transmission levels of Covid-19 in...
This photo taken on October 17, 2020 shows volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) waiting next to ambulances as they prepare to transfer local residents suspected of having the COVID-19 coronavirus to a quarantine centre in Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
23 October 2020
Yangon General Hospital (YGH) Emergency Ward chief Dr. Maw Maw Oo said that the number of...
Chinese tourists put on raincoats and face shields as part of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic restrictions upon their arrival at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, 20 October 2020. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA
22 October 2020
Thailand has welcomed its first group of tourists in seven months, as part of an...
A volunteer from the Yangon Region Youth Affairs Committee (YRYAC) wearing PPE (Personal protective equipment) leaves after delivering food at a COVID-19 facility in Yangon, Myanmar, 22 September 2020. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
22 October 2020
Myanmar reported 27 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 7, 2020, a researcher holds a sheet with paper strip samples for Covid-19 coronavirus tests developed by the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) which could give results at a similar speed of pregnancy tests, at a laboratory of the IGIB in New Delhi. Photo: AFP
21 October 2020
A fast and cheap paper-based coronavirus test will soon be available across India, with...
A man wearing protective face mask walks past in Yangon, Myanmar, 15 October 2020. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
21 October 2020
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has increased to 38,502 as of Tuesday,...
Supporters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party on a motorcade pass supporters of the opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), seen at right, during a campaign in Wundwin, near Mandalay on September 19, 2020. Photo: Kyaw Thet Zin/AFP
20 October 2020
COVID-19 has already cast a darkening shadow of gloom over Myanmar’s November election. A...
Vehicles pass around the gate of Myawaddy border trade zone, Myawaddy of Karen State, eastern Myanmar. Photo: EPA
20 October 2020
The northwestern Thai province of Tak ordered a temporary halt to all movement of goods...
(File) A picture of Dr. Li Wenliang, the Chinese whistle-blower who tried to sound the alarm on the coronavirus but was reprimanded by authorities, sits among offerings at a makeshift shrine outside the Wuhan Central Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, 07 February 2020. Photo: EPA
19 October 2020
China has passed a new law to improve its handling of disease outbreaks -- including...

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