A 26-year-old Myanmar national has tested positive for Covid-19, said the health ministry—the country’s third confirmed case in two days,
The man developed a fever and cough on March 23 after returning to Yangon from the UK via Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on March 21.
A resident of Yangon’s Insein township, he has been moved to an isolation ward in Insein General Hospital.
Earlier this week Myanmar announced its first coronavirus cases: another 26-year-old Myanmar man also returning from the UK and a 36-year-old Myanmar man travelling back from the United States.
They are being treated at hospitals in Yangon and Chin state respectively.
From March 25, all travellers to the country, including Myanmar nationals, have been subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine.