The Myanmar government imposed a stay-at-home order in Sittwe township of Rakhine state starting from Thursday night due to the recent increasing COVID-19 local transmissions, Xinhua reported.

Three more locally transmitted cases were reported in Sittwe township of Rakhine state on Thursday night, bringing the total number of infections to 399 in the country.

So far, nine local transmission cases have been reported in Sittwe township since Aug. 16.