Myanmar nationals wearing facemasks amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus walk at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
24 March 2020
Tens of thousands of migrant labourers from Laos and Myanmar flooded bus stations and...
People wear facemasks amid concerns of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus while walking at Yangon international airport in Yangon on March 18, 2020. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
24 March 2020
Myanmar confirmed its first cases of the deadly novel coronavirus late Monday after weeks...
 An aerial view of nearly-deserted roads in New Delhi, India, 22 March 2020. Photo: EPA
23 March 2020
Foreign returned persons staying in the national capital since March 1 and their contacts...
A volunteer operates a remote controlled disinfection robot to disinfect a residental area amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 16, 2020. Photo: AFP
23 March 2020
China reported no new local cases of the deadly coronavirus on Monday but confirmed...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to thank medical workers and other emergency personnel by clapping or banging pots and pans (AFP Photo/Money SHARMA)
23 March 2020
From Australia's Bondi Beach to the streets of New Delhi, authorities across Asia have...
People walk in front of Yangon General Hospital in Yangon. Photo: EPA
23 March 2020
Eighty doctors have registered themselves as volunteers to Myanmar Medical Association (...
Photo: Thura/Mizzima
23 March 2020
People returning from foreign countries will be kept under surveillance for COVID-19 at...
Photo: Thura/Mizzima
22 March 2020
Myanmar has a decision to make. Take what may seem drastic – and undoubtedly unpopular –...
Residents buying food at a market in the town of Myitkyina, Kachin State. Photo: AFP
22 March 2020
UNICEF recently joined a meeting in Kachin State aimed at helping the local government...
People stand in the departure lounge at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, Myanmar, 18 March 2020. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
22 March 2020
Myanmar has stopped issuing e-visas and visas on arrival for all countries and said it...
Yangon City Development Committee members take the temperature of people as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus at a market in Yangon on March 21, 2020. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
21 March 2020
There is unconfirmed news that three people died after falling into the ground in a faint...
A female security guard scans the customers as a precaution against the ongoing pandemic of the COVID-19 disease, arriving to buy groceries at a D-mart mall in Mira road on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, 20 March 2020. Photo: EPA
21 March 2020
The total number of COVID-19 cases in India has now climbed up to 223, including 32...

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