Coronavirus

An Afghan health worker administers polio drops to a child during a four-day anti-polio vaccination campaign in Kandahar, Afghanistan, 15 March 2023. Photo: EPA
News
26 April 2023
UN launches major push for child vaccination amid Covid
Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Allegations have been made that the COVID-19 virus may have been made in the lab and accidently or deliberately leaked. Photo: EPA
News
14 August 2021
PUSHBACK: Is the ‘official COVID-19 narrative’...
A Canadian oil and gas worker may have sparked a cascade of events that could lead to the...
Researchers work in a lab of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 23 February 2017 (issued 16 April 2020). Photo: EPA
Latest News
14 August 2021
China rejects need for further WHO coronavirus...
China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization's calls for a renewed probe into...
Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Photo: EPA
Latest News
12 August 2021
Coup leader urges domestic vaccine production
Min Aung Hlaing has called for the production of the COVID-19 vaccine in the country to...
Thar Gyi's team run an ambulance service that transports sick patients and picks up bodies for cremation and burial (Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP)
News
11 August 2021
Covid stigma keeps Myanmar medical volunteers...
A Buddhist monk and a budding sailor are among the outcasts squatting in an abandoned...
Photo: AFP
News
11 August 2021
Bangladesh begins Covid-19 vaccinations for...
Bangladesh began vaccinating on Tuesday Rohingya refugees living in congested camps as...
A view of street traffic during COVID-19 restrictions in Jakarta, Indonesia, 03 August 2021. Photo: EPA
Business
09 August 2021
Indonesian economy grows for first time in five...
Indonesia's economy bounced back in the second quarter to post its first growth in more...
(File) A staff member pushes a food trolley to deliver breakfasts at the Yangon General Hospital, in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
News
09 August 2021
Number of COVID-19 cases increases to 329,516
The number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has increased to 329,516 on Sunday after 3,027...
(File) Cardinal Charles Maung Bo speaks during the Advisory Forum on National Reconciliation and Peace in Myanmar at Thingaha Hotel in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 07 May 2019. Photo: EPA
News
08 August 2021
Cardinal Bo offers requiem mass for COVID-19...
Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon offered a Requiem Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral for victims...
Daw Zin Mar Aung, Foreign Minister of the National Unity Government (NUG). Photo: Zin Mar Aung/Facebook
Latest News
07 August 2021
Myanmar National Unity Government calls on ASEAN...
Daw Zin Mar Aung, Foreign Minister of the National Unity Government (NUG), sent a formal...
China has already provided more than 700 million doses of vaccine to other countries this year. Photo: AFP
News
06 August 2021
China pledges two billion vaccine doses to world...
China will "strive to provide" two billion Covid-19 vaccine doses to the world this year...
Photo: Nwe Aye Mosque
Latest News
06 August 2021
Nwe Aye Mosque distributes oxygenation equipment...
Zaw Min Latt, secretary of the Nwe Aye Sunni Jame Mosque Social Welfare Association, told...
Yangon International Airport. Photo: Yangon Aerodome
Business
05 August 2021
Airline restrictions extended until 31 August 21
Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has extended earlier restrictions for...

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