The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Myanmar jumped from 10 to 14, the health ministry announced today.
The four new cases—three French tourists and a Myanmar man—were isolated at hospital, where they were diagnosed. The ministry confirmed that the tourists had been with a Myanmar tour guide who tested positive for the virus on March 28.
They were quarantined at a Yangon hotel after the tour guide became ill and have since been moved to Waibargyi Hospital, said the ministry, adding that they had shown no symptoms.
The other patient—a 24-year-old man from Kyaukme township in Shan state—returned on March 25 from Bangkok to the border town of Tachileik, where he stayed for two days before boarding a plane to Mandalay on Friday.
He then drove to Kyaukme and—coughing and vomiting—went to the local hospital on Saturday where he remains in a stable condition, according to the ministry.
Myanmar reported its first cases a week ago. Yesterday the health ministry advised people to stay at home, warning of the possibility of a “big outbreak” after thousands of migrant workers returned from Thailand and dispersed across the country.
