China News Service, September 21. According to the WeChat official account of the Myanmar Golden Phoenix Chinese News, the epidemic monitoring bulletin issued by the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar on September 20 showed that there were 671 new cases in Myanmar (393 new cases in the morning and 393 new cases in the evening 278 cases) confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia.
So far, the total number of confirmed cases in Myanmar has reached 5,541, a total of 92 cases have died, and 1,260 cases have been cured and discharged.
Medical resource overdraft
It is understood that Myanmar’s current epidemic prevention and control capabilities are limited. The authorities have used national efforts to test about 5,000 people every day, and medical resources are fully overdrawn.
At this time, the general election in Myanmar is still the same, election campaigns are huge, business activities are business as usual, the flow of people in some areas is still dense, and the pressure of epidemic prevention is self-evident.
According to the report, at present, once there is a fever in Yangon City, the patient will immediately be required by the health department to go to the fever clinic for nucleic acid testing.
However, the response from the fever clinic is that patients are advised not to go to the outpatient clinic for the time being, because the hospital cannot accept new nucleic acid testing tasks in a short period of time because of the backlog of test samples.
Yangon Province implements home policy
The Ministry of Health of Myanmar issued an announcement at 8 pm on the 20th that in order to control the spread of the virus, all towns and districts in Yangon Province except for Brother Island have implemented a home policy, and offenders will be held accountable according to law.
This order will take effect from 8 am on September 21.
The announcement stated that except for private banks, gas stations, grocery stores, pharmacies, companies that issue drugs, mineral water plants, and daily necessities factories, all companies and units need to be isolated at home.
In addition, raw material processing plants are prohibited from starting work from September 24 to October 7.
The announcement also requires everyone to wear masks when going out.
Except for shuttle buses and other special vehicles that must take employees to and from get off work, other vehicles are not allowed to travel across towns.
It is also reported that the three-story teaching building of the TTC School in Kammayut Township, Yangon Province will be temporarily transformed into an isolation center with 300 people.
Currently, more than 700 people are quarantined in six isolation centers in Ganmayu Township.
According to the Urban and Housing Development Bureau, 10 buildings in the economic area granted by Ruilinban Road in Laydaya Township will be used as COVID-19 treatment and isolation centers.