According to him, experts have noted a sharp jump in the incidence of coronavirus in Myanmar.

“Myanmar is becoming a super-proliferator of COVID-19 with all these very dangerous options - delta and other forms of the disease, which are extremely dangerous and deadly,” Andrews said in an interview with The Guardian.

The expert added that about a third of the world's population lives in countries that border Myanmar.

Earlier, in a joint release from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization, it was reported that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over.