Myanmar: CoronaVirus Meter

Myanmar Ex-Political Prisoners Turn Counsellors to Ease Coronavirus Isolation

2d | U.S. News & World Report

After spending years in confinement, few understand uncertainty, isolation and family separation better than Myanmar's former ...

Myanmar sees gradual drop in Covid-19 cases

6m | The Star

YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar has seen a gradual decline in daily testing positivity rate of Covid-19 so far, a health expert told ...

A coronavirus wave is hitting Myanmar, but Suu Kyi vows elections will go ahead

12d | Washington Post

With the virus gripping one of the world’s least-developed countries, millions will gather to cast votes in a matter of weeks ...

Myanmar’s Free Funeral Service Founder hit by COVID-19

18h | The Irrawaddy

U Kyaw Thu, the 60-year-old founder of the prominent Yangon-based social welfare organization, has tested positive for ...

Myanmar sees gradual decline in daily COVID-19 positivity rate

2h | Xinhua

Myanmar has seen a gradual decline in daily testing positivity rate of COVID-19 so far, a health expert told Xinhua on Thursday. "The percent positive of the tests has declined to around 8 percent ...

Myanmar reports more than 2,000 daily coronavirus cases in new record

11d | Reuters

Myanmar's health ministry reported 2,158 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday in a record daily rise, along with 32 new ...

Myanmar centenarian shrugs off coronavirus, worries about grandchildren

8d | Reuters

Myanmar centenarian Thein Khin not only beat the coronavirus, but barely knew she had it. Thein Khin, 100, tested positive ...

Soaring Myanmar COVID-19 Cases Test Long-Neglected Health Care System

6d | Voice of America

Having contained its first brush with the novel coronavirus even as infections in neighboring countries surged, Myanmar is ...

Covid-19 tests Thai-Myanmar ties

2d | The Bangkok Post on MSN.com

The surging numbers of Covid-19 infections in Yangon and northern Myanmar over the past few weeks is putting the excellent ...

Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food Vendors – June and July 2020 survey round

2d | ReliefWeb

English Assessment on Myanmar about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition and Epidemic; published on 02 Oct 2020 by IFPRI ...

Myanmar sees gradual decline in daily COVID-19 positivity rate

2h | Xinhua

Myanmar has seen a gradual decline in daily testing positivity rate of COVID-19 so far, a health expert told Xinhua on Thursday. "The percent positive of the tests has declined to around 8 percent ...

8 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore, with 7 imported; none in community

42m | The Straits Times

There were no community cases. More details will be announced on Thursday night. On Wednesday, MOH reported that there were 12 new coronavirus cases and all were asymptomatic. The cases were all ...

Covid-19 case in Myanmar near border

1d | Bangkok Post

A woman in a village in Myanmar near the Three Pagodas border crossing in Sangkhlaburi district has been confirmed infected ...

Myanmar steps up efforts to contain COVID-19 in Yangon region

18h | Xinhua

YANGON, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar is strengthening efforts to contain the COVID-19 outbreak in Yangon region which has recently seen increasing number of infections, an official from the Health and ...

Myanmar polls body defends canceled voting in insecure areas

1d | ABC

Myanmar’s election supervisory body has defended its decision to cancel voting in several areas of the country in next ...

Myanmar Covid-19 numbers surging to record numbers, more infected at Thai border

4d | The Star

Thailand reported three additional locally transmitted cases of the coronavirus on Sunday (Oct 18), a day after reporting its ...

Myanmar should use COVID-19 to end 30 years of crony capitalism

2d | NIKKEI

Myanmar's government needs to provide urgent financial assistance to tens of millions of poor and working families who have ...

Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food Vendors – June and July 2020 survey round

2d | ReliefWeb

English Assessment on Myanmar about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition and Epidemic; published on 02 Oct 2020 by IFPRI ...

The Latest: Thailand closes Myanmar border crossings

4d | Associated Press on MSN.com

Thailand has closed all border crossings between its northern province of Tak and Myanmar after five people in the Thai ...

Myanmar: Rakhine armed group abducts election candidates; Covid-19 cases still escalating

2d | The Star

An armed group in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state has confirmed that it had taken three election candidates of Aung San Suu ...

Myanmar’s Free Funeral Service Founder hit by COVID-19

18h | The Irrawaddy

U Kyaw Thu, the 60-year-old founder of the prominent Yangon-based social welfare organization, has tested positive for ...

COVID-19 death toll rises to 972 in Myanmar

17h | Xinhua

(Xinhua) -- Myanmar reported 27 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 972, according to a release from the Health and Sports Ministry on Wednesday. As of Wednesday, ...

Myanmar Reports First COVID-19 Case in Rakhine War Refugee Camps

2d | GlobalSecurity.org

An elderly woman at one of dozens of war refugee camps in Myanmar's Rakhine state has tested positive for COVID-19, the first confirmed case among more than 200,000 people displaced by nearly 23 ...

Myanmar: Rakhine armed group abducts election candidates; Covid-19 cases still escalating

2d | The Star

An armed group in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state has confirmed that it had taken three election candidates of Aung San Suu ...

How Do Americans View South Korea’s COVID-19 Response?

17h | The Diplomat

Most Americans view South Korea’s COVID response positively — but less so than countries like Canada, Japan, and Australia.

Covid-19 tests Thai-Myanmar ties

2d Opinion | Bangkok Post

The surging numbers of Covid-19 infections in Yangon and northern Myanmar over the past few weeks is putting the excellent Thai-Myanmar relations under great stress. At this point, the 2,401-kilometre ...

Myanmar ex-political prisoners turn counselors to ease coronavirus isolation

2d | National Post

After spending years in confinement, few understand uncertainty, isolation and family separation better than Myanmar’s former political prisoners. As the coronavirus spreads in Myanmar, sending ...

Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Telephone survey evidence from mothers in rural and urban Myanmar (October 2020)

7d | ReliefWeb

English Assessment on Myanmar about Agriculture, Food and Nutrition and Epidemic; published on 14 Oct 2020 by IFPRI ...

Thailand: Tak Covid-19 cases are Myanmar couple, ministry clarifies; 10 cases in total

4d | The Star

The government has clarified that two Covid-19 cases in Tak province were Myanmar nationals. Rumours have been circulating in ...

Stripped of citizenship in Myanmar, Rohingya immigrants find new home in Chicago — and a chance to vote for the first time

22h | Chicago Sun-Times

Abdul Jabbar Amanullah completed a long journey that he said he could never envision as a Rohingya child growing up in ...