"U Aung Tun, an adviser to the Health Ministry, said the 25-year-old Myanmar woman is one of the 106 people suffering from the affliction that has killed over 3000 people in nearly 60 countries. More than 89,000 people are suffering from the illness first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31. Earlier on February 1, Myanmar evacuated 59 students from Wuhan, and all of them were declared free of COVID-19 after a 14-day quarantine in a hospital in Mandalay. Last week, two more Myanmar students in Wuhan were among the 112 people evacuated from the virus-plagued city, by an Indian Air Force plane. They are now undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine in New Delhi. The International Labour Organization said as much as 10 percent of the country’s labour force is working abroad, with over 3 million Myanmar migrant workers employed in Thailand and Malaysia alone..."