Myanmar’s health ministry confirmed two more Covid-19 cases and has encouraged people to stay at home amid fears of a major outbreak.
The return of more than 23,000 migrant workers last week from Thailand across the border in Myawaddy and their dispersal throughout Myanmar has increased the risk of a “big outbreak,” the ministry announced yesterday.
Among the latest Covid-19 patients is a 44-year-old Myanmar man who returned via Myawaddy on March 23 to Yangon’s Mingaladon township on March 26.
After showing flu-like symptoms he was taken to a local public hospital and will be transferred to Warbargyi Hospital, according to the ministry.
Another Myanmar man caught the infection locally—the second such patient of the country’s 10 confirmed cases.
The 45-year-old Myanmar national from Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt township who is being quarantined at Warbargyi Hospital had direct contact with a 69-year-old man, who tested positive for the virus on March 28.
