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
Naypyidaw, the capital city of Myanmar. Photo: AFP
News
10 September 2020
Officer from President’s mansion tests positive...
An officer with deputy director rank working at the President’s mansion in Naypyitaw has...
Volunteers wearing Personal protective equipment (PPE) as they arrive to pick-up a contact person of Covid-19 patient for quarantine in Yangon, Myanmar, 08 September 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
News
09 September 2020
Two more COVID-19 deaths reported
Two more deaths of COVID-19 patients and 99 new confirmed cases were reported in Myanmar...
Pedestrians cross a road across the Sule Pagoda (L) in Yangon. Photo: AFP
News
08 September 2020
Myanmar exceeds more than 1500 COVID-19 cases
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has increased to 1,518 as of Monday night,...
Pedestrians cross a road on a walkway in the downtown area of Yangon. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
News
07 September 2020
45 more COVID-19 cases reported
Myanmar reported 45 more new COVID-19 confirmed cases on Monday morning, according to a...
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the Union Election Commission Office after her candidacy registration at Thanlyin township in Yangon, Myanmar, 04 August 2020. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Election 2020
07 September 2020
State Counsellor cancels election campaign event
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi pulled out of the first event of her election campaign...
Nepalese devotees and riot police clash ahead of the Rato Machindranath chariot festival procession in Lalitpur, Nepal, 03 September 2020. Photo: EPA
News
07 September 2020
Nepal police clash with devotees defying virus...
Nepali police on Thursday fired tear gas and water cannon to halt a chariot festival that...
Medical staff wearing protective suits walk outside the Wai Ba Gi hospital in Yangon. Photo: Sai Aung Main/AFP
News
07 September 2020
More than 160 new COVID-19 cases take current...
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has surged to 1,419, with more than 160...
Medical staff prepare materials for COVID-19 coronavirus test at a quarantine facility in Hlaing University in Yangon. Photo: AFP
News
06 September 2020
Myanmar COVID-19 cases rise to 1,253
The number of COVID-19 cases registered in Myanmar has risen to 1,253, with the death...
(File) Forza Italia leader and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi during an election rally to support Jole Santelli, candidate for the center-right to the presidency of Calabria, in Tropea, Calabria, Italy, 23 January 2020. Photo: EPA
News
05 September 2020
Italy's Berlusconi hospitalised after...
Italy's flamboyant former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalised, his...
The health crisis has left vast swathes of central London almost deserted -- the reduced footfall leaving businesses to count the cost (Photo: AFP)
Business
05 September 2020
London businesses count cost as workers avoid...
Nestled between central London's rows of office blocks, eateries once packed with...
Local authorities raise public awareness to tighten border security along the Pachan River between Myanmar and Thailand on 31 August 2020. Photo: MNA
News
05 September 2020
Thai border security tightened over Myanmar COVID...
Thai officials have stepped up security along their border with Myanmar’s Mon State...
A man wearing a protective face mask passes near a poster promoting health and education about SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus amid the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease at downtown area in Yangon. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
News
05 September 2020
Myanmar sees further rise in COVID-19 cases
Myanmar has seen a further rise in COVID-19 cases taking the total to 1,133.

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