China News Service, April 12th, according to the WeChat public account of the Myanmar Golden Phoenix Chinese News, at 8 p.m. local time, the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar issued an epidemic surveillance bulletin, and Myanmar added a new case of confirmed pneumonia Died of illness). At present, Myanmar has confirmed 39 cases, including 4 deaths.
According to reports, the newly added patient lives in Bambertan Township, Yangon, 85 years old, a Burmese male. Symptoms such as fever and cough appeared on April 9, and went to Yangon People's Hospital on April 11 for treatment and isolation treatment. The patient has diabetes and coronary heart disease and has no history of traveling abroad in the last 14 days.
Upon admission, the patient showed abnormal fatigue and a decrease in blood oxygen levels. Although the medical staff tried their best to rescue them, they still failed to save their lives. At 6 o'clock on the 12th, the treatment was invalid and the death was declared. The cause of death was acute pneumonia, diabetes, high blood pressure, and blocked coronary arteries.
Extend the isolation period to 28 days
On the 12th, the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar issued a notice saying that the period of quarantine was extended from the previous 14 days to 28 days, including 21 days of designated location isolation and 7 days of home isolation.
According to the notice, according to the World Health Organization, most patients with new coronary pneumonia have symptoms within 2 days after infection, and the majority of infected people have onset within 28 days.
The Ministry of Health also said that at present, the source of infection can be found in most confirmed cases in Myanmar (input type or those who have had close contact with the confirmed cases).
Extend the air navigation order to the end of this month
The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Myanmar issued a notice to extend the restriction date for all commercial passenger flights to 23:59 on April 30, aiming to prevent and control the epidemic from entering Myanmar from abroad. The air navigation order was issued on March 29 and was originally scheduled to end at 23:59 on April 13.
The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Communications Wu Juumu said that the issuance of the ban on the entry of international commercial passenger flights complies with the recommendations of the World Health Organization and the decision of the Myanmar Ministry of Health. During the prevention and control of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, controlling the entry of foreigners into Myanmar is an important epidemic prevention and control measure.
Currently, most cases in Myanmar are imported from abroad or have close contact with confirmed cases.