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Source/publisher: GANFYD
Date of entry/update: 2008-03-22
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Description: "The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 9,000 multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases occur in Myanmar each year. Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) has been reported since 2007. In 2011, only 2% of MDR-TB cases received adequate diagnosis, treatment and care. Undiagnosed or mismanaged MDR-TB cases lead to further spread of the disease. he Ministry of Health is committed to ighting MDR-TB. In 2009 the National TB Programme (NTP) and M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) launched an MDR-TB pilot project in 10 townships in Yangon and Mandalay. Following excellent initial results, the NTP is taking MDR-TB management to scale. The 2011-2015 MDR-TB expansion plan will enable treatment of nearly 10,000 MDR-TB cases in 100 townships. he total cost of scaling up MDR-TB managemen is US$ 55 million, out of which US$ 41 million is yet to be raised. While the top priority remains preventing MDR-TB by sustaining and improving basic TB control, the Ministry of Health is working with technical and inancial partners towards the goal of universal access to MDR-TB diagnosis, treatment and care..."
Source/publisher: World Health Organisation (WHO)
Date of entry/update: 2012-11-02
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Description: Providing technical assistance to the National TB Programme (NTP), particularly on: * developing TB control policies and strategies; * building capacity to sustain, improve and further intensify Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) implementation; * scaling up and strengthening inter-sectoral partnerships for DOTS; * improving community awareness and utilization of DOTS; * addressing HIV related TB and anti-TB drug resistance under programme conditions; * measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goals; * designing and disseminating information, education and communication messages; * improving operational research to strengthen DOTS implementation, together with the Department of Medical Research. * Facilitating partnership, including with the Global TB Drug Facility. * Providing technical expertise to the joint programme implementation through Technical Working Group on TB. * Disseminating scientific information. * Organizing external two-yearly review of the NTP. * Advocacy and raising commitment for TB control. * Resource mobilization for TB and TB-HIV. * In-country presence of WHO Advisor for TB and TB-HIV.
Source/publisher: WHO Myanmar
Date of entry/update: 2011-09-19
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Source/publisher: Wikipedia
Date of entry/update: 2008-03-14
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Description: "YANGON-Myanmar Embassy in Beijing, China, announced that two Myanmar criminals in Hubei Province, China, were infected with COVID-19. They were charged with drug dealing and trafficking cases in Hubei, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. Two Myanmar COVID-19 patients were sent to Mobile Cabin Hospital on February 27th and 28th and they are being received medical treatments. Although the two inmates are in stable condition, they weren’t allowed to discharge from the hospital. The Prison Department (branch) in Hubei Province is carrying out Psychological Crisis Intervention and Persuasion since the beginning of two Myanmar inmates were infected with COVID-19. The announcement also reported that 67 Myanmar sailors were being detained for smuggling at the 18 prisons across China. At present, Hubei Province has been in lockdown since last month, and the people are not allowed to go from one street to another..."
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Source/publisher: Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
2020-03-06
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-06
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Sub-title: A fifth person suspected of having COVID-19 in Myanmar has tested negative for the illness, the Health Ministry said.
Description: "The Myanmar government said it has found no cases of the disease within its borders, more than two months after COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China. The 26-year-old Myanmar man and his wife tested negative for the disease, after he had been in close contact with a Myanmar woman who became infected with COVID-19 while working as a maid in Singapore, the ministry said. The man and his wife have been quarantined at a hospital in Kyaukpadaung township of Mandalay Region since February 26, as part of the government’s response to the threat. On Tuesday, the ministry said four people suspected of having the disease, including a 38-year-old Chinese man and a 37-year-old New Zealand man, tested negative for the virus. The test results were provided by the National Health Laboratory, which recently acquired hundreds of testing kits for the virus. COVID-19 has killed over 3000 people and infected more than 90,000 globally..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-03-05
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-05
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Sub-title: The government will continue sending workers abroad, even to South Korea, which is now the centre of the COVID-19 epidemic in more than 70 countries, a senior labour official said.
Description: "Daw Thin Thin Lwin, assistant director of the Overseas Job Agency under the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, said that the government had sent 23,586 workers to Thailand, 4408 to Malaysia, 69 to Singapore, 267 to Korea, 761 to Japan, 58 to UAE, 67 to Jordan and 11 to Qatar in January. "We will not stop sending workers abroad, even to South Korea,” she said. Thousands of Myanmar nationals continue to seek work abroad due to Myanmar’s slumping economy and lack of jobs. From 2011 through February, over 40,000 Myanmar workers went to South Korea, she said. On Monday, the Health Ministry announced that Singapore had notified it that a 25-year-old Myanmar woman working as a maid in the city-state had tested positive for COVID-19, the first such case involving a Myanmar citizen. As of Wednesday, the Myanmar government said, the country had no confirmed cases of COVID-19, which has killed over 3000 people since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, on December 31..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-03-04
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-05
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Sub-title: India is increasing competing with China in its neighbourhood, so helping out in a crisis is a good way to make friends.
Description: "The Indian Air Force last week evacuated 112 people stranded in Wuhan, one of several operations by India to the the Chinese city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. But while India is one of many countries to help its citizens in need, what was also striking about this particular mission was that 36 people in this group were foreign nationals, primarily from Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Maldives. The evacuation was somewhat overshadowed by the intense media coverage of US President Donald Trump’s recent visit to India, as well as attention on the outbreak of communal violence in the country. But while India’s evacuations of not just its own citizens but also those belonging to neighbouring countries was mainly a humanitarian mission, it did have significant political ramifications reflecting India’s regional diplomacy..."
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Source/publisher: "The Interpreter"
2020-03-05
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-05
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Sub-title: The Ministry of Health and Sports released a notification to the public on February 23, warning that people should avoid crowded places as incidents of the novel coronavirus(COVID-19) could occur in Myanmar.
Description: "Health experts are advising people to avoid going to festivals and places were people gather, such as busy shopping centers and markets. “We should not hold festivals in Myanmar at the moment,” said Dr Khin Khin Gyi, deputy director of Contagious Disease Prevention and Eradication at the Department of Public Health. “It would be better if they are not held at all,” she added. “I want to urge people to take protective measures, and that means avoiding unnecessary exposure to the virus in public gatherings,” said Dr Khin Maung Lwin, director (retired) of the Ministry of Health and Sports. In a statement issued by the ministry, the government warned that “even those who have not come into contact with infected people, or those who have not travelled to high-risk countries, are at risk of contracting COVID-19”. Close contact with others in crowded places increases the risk of infection. “The most important thing is contact. If there are infected people near you, you can get infected,” said Dr Aung Tun, advisor to the Ministry of Health and Sports..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-03-04
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-04
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Description: "Myanmar stopped a cruise boat carrying hundreds of tourists from docking in the country, a senior tourism official said on Tuesday, citing fears passengers could be carrying the coronavirus. The Silver Spirit, a luxury liner operated by Monaco-based Silversea Cruises, last docked at the Thai island of Phuket and was scheduled to stop at Thilawa, outside Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon on Wednesday. “We have informed the ... port authorities that the entry of this ship should not be allowed,” Khin Maung Soe, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, told Reuters by phone. He said he did not know whether any of the passengers were showing symptoms of the virus. Myanmar stopped a cruise boat carrying hundreds of tourists from docking in the country, a senior tourism official said on Tuesday, citing fears passengers could be carrying the coronavirus. The Silver Spirit, a luxury liner operated by Monaco-based Silversea Cruises, last docked at the Thai island of Phuket and was scheduled to stop at Thilawa, outside Myanmar’s commercial capital of Yangon on Wednesday. “We have informed the ... port authorities that the entry of this ship should not be allowed,” Khin Maung Soe, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, told Reuters by phone. He said he did not know whether any of the passengers were showing symptoms of the virus..."
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Source/publisher: "Reuters" (UK)
2020-03-03
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-04
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Sub-title: Decision was made as proactive measure before cruise ship arrived in commercial capital Yangon as planned
Description: "Myanmar has refused the entry of a tourist cruise ship in the country’s commercial capital out of fear of the coronavirus epidemic, which has a large presence in Southeast Asia. Myanmar, which to date has no confirmed case of coronavirus, was a scheduled four-day stopover for The Silver Spirit, operated by Bahamas-based Silver Sea Cruises, in Yangon, but the government on Monday reversed the permission to dock. Khin Khin Gyi, deputy director at the Health and Sports Ministry, said the decision was made at an emergency meeting held in the capital Nay Pyi Taw late Sunday. “The main reason is that the cruise ship stopped in several countries with confirmed coronavirus cases,” she told Anadolu Agency by phone on Monday. The ship, carrying 485 tourists from 22 countries and over 350 crew members, last stopped at the Thai resort island of Phuket. Myanmar has examined 45 suspected cases, but none has tested positive for the virus, the ministry said on Sunday..."
Source/publisher: "Anadolu Agency" (Ankara)
2020-03-02
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-03
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Description: "Telling people that you are a “zero” may not get much attention. Telling people that you are a “patient zero”? That’s a different story. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who also goes by the nickname Woz, momentarily caused a stir with the following tweet: Yeah, that’s not going to get zero reaction with the ongoing COVID-19 causing coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) outbreak occurring. The possible suggestion that he and his wife, Janet, may have been the “patient zeros” who brought the new coronavirus to the U.S. got all kinds of responses, ranging from people tweeting that Macs don’t get viruses to those wondering angrily why the Wozniaks took so long to see doctors.A patient zero is the first human to get infected by a pathogen like a virus and then subsequently spread it to others. There can be a patient zero for the overall SARS-CoV2 outbreak, that is the first human to have contracted the virus from a non-human source such as another animal. There can also be patient zeros for outbreaks in different locations, such as the persons who first introduced the virus to each country. It can be very, very difficult to identify who really was the patient zero in each of these cases because that person may have had very non-specific symptoms or even no symptoms at all..."
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Source/publisher: "Forbes" (USA)
2020-03-03
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-03
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Sub-title: The Singapore Health Ministry said a Myanmar maid is suffering from the new coronavirus or COVID-19 infection, according to a Myanmar Health Ministry official, the first Myanmar citizen reported to be suffering from the deadly disease.
Description: "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..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-03-02
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-03
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Description: "၂၀၁၉ ဒီဇင်ဘာကတည်းက တရုတ်နိုင်ငံကနေ စဖြစ်နေတဲ့ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ်ကူးစက်မှုဟာ သုံးလကြာအပြီးမှာလည်း အရှိန်လျော့သွားတဲ့လက္ခဏာမပြဘဲ ဆက်ပြီးကူးစက်ပျံ့နှံ့နေသေးတယ်။ အခုဆိုရင် ကမ္ဘာ့နိုင်ငံပေါင်း ၅၅နိုင်ငံမှာ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ် (COVID-19) ရောက်ရှိနေတယ်။ လူပေါင်း ရှစ်သောင်းကျော်ကူးစက်ခံထားရပြီး သေဆုံးသူ ၃၀၀၀ ကျော်ရှိနေပါပြီ။ ကမ္ဘာ့ကျန်းမာရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းကလည်း ဒီကူးစက်ပျံ့နှံ့မှုကို ကမ္ဘာတစ်ခုလုံးမှာ အမြင့်ဆုံးခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုအဖြစ် ပြောင်းလဲသတ်မှတ်ထားပါတယ်။ ဒီရောဂါဟာ ဘာလို့ကြောက်ဖို့ကောင်းနေတာလဲ။ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ်ပိုး ကူးစက်ခံရရင် ခန္ဓာကိုယ်မှာဘာတွေပြောင်းလဲဖြစ်ပေါ်လာမှာလဲ၊ ဘာတွေခံစားရမလဲဆိုတာကို ဒီဆောင်းပါးမှာ ပြောပြထားပါတယ်။ အဆုတ် အသက်ရှူလမ်းကြောင်းကနေ ကူးစက်တဲ့ရောဂါဆိုတော့ ပထမဆုံးထိခိုက်မယ့်အစိတ်အပိုင်းက အဆုတ်ပါ။ ရောဂါပိုးရှိတဲ့သူတစ်ယောက်က ချောင်းဆိုးနှာချေလိုက်တာကနေ ဗိုင်းရပ်စ်တွေက သူ့ရဲ့ နှာရည်၊ တံတွေးတို့မှာပါသွားပြီး တခြားတစ်ယောက်ကို ကူးစက်နိုင်တယ်။ ပထမဆုံးစပြီး ဖြစ်မယ့် လက္ခဏာတွေကတော့ ရိုးရိုးတုပ်ကွေးမိတဲ့လက္ခဏာတွေဖြစ်တဲ့ ဖျားတာ၊ ချောင်းဆိုးတာ၊ အသက်ရှူရခက်တာနဲ့ အဆုတ်ရောင်တာတွေဖြစ်နိုင်တယ်။ စကူးစက်ပြီး ၂ရက်ကနေ ၁၄ရက်အတွင်းဖြစ်နိုင်တယ် (ဒါပေမယ့် မသေချာသေးဘူး။ တချို့အခြေအနေတွေမှာ တော်တော်ကြာမှဖြစ်တာမျိုးတွေလည်းတွေ့နေရတယ်)။ အသက်ကြီးတဲ့သူတွေနဲ့ နဂိုရောဂါအခံရှိတဲ့သူတွေက ရောဂါရဲ့ဒဏ်ကို ပိုခံစားရတယ်။ ပိုပြင်းထန်တတ်တယ်။ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ်ရဲ့ အဆုတ်ကိုထိခိုက်တဲ့ပုံစံဟာ သူ့ညီနောင်ရောဂါတွေဖြစ်တဲ့ SARS နဲ့ MERS ရောဂါတွေနဲ့ဆင်တူတယ်လို့ဆိုပါတယ်။ ဒီအတိုင်းဆိုရင် အဆုတ်ကို ထိခိုက်တဲ့ပုံစံက အဆင့် (၃)ဆင့်ရှိတယ်။ ပထမဆုံးဗိုင်းရပ်စ်တွေပွားမယ်။ ပွားလာတဲ့ဗိုင်းရပ်စ်တွေက ဘာမှန်းမသိတဲ့အခါ ခန္ဓာကိုယ်ရဲ့ ကိုယ်ခံအားစနစ် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန်တုံ့ပြန််မှုတွေဆက်ဖြစ်တယ်။ ကိုယ်ခံအားစနစ်တုံ့ပြန်မှုကြောင့် ရောင်ရမ်းမှုတွေဆက်ဖြစ်ပြီးရင်တော့ အဆုတ်မှာထိခိုက်ပြီး အဆုတ်ပျက်စီးမယ်။ ဗိုင်းရပ်စ်ကိုတိုက်ခိုက်ဖို့အတွက် ပြင်းပြင်ထန်ထန်တုံ့ပြန်တဲ့ ကိုယ်ခံအားစနစ်က ရောင်းရမ်းမှုတွေဖြစ်ပေါ်စေတာကြောင့် အဆုတ်မှာရှိတဲ့ သွေးကြောတွေကိုထိခိုက်စေပြီး သွေးကြောငယ်တွေကနေ အရည်တွေစိမ့်ထွက်စေတယ်။ အဲဒီအရည်တွေက အဆုတ်ရဲ့ လေလဲလှယ်တဲ့လေပူပေါင်းငယ်လေးတွေ (alveoli) တွေမှာစုကုန်တဲ့အတွက်ကြောင့် အဆုတ်က သူ့အလုပ်ဖြစ်တဲ့ အောက်ဆီဂျင်ကိုရယူဖို့အတွက် ခက်ခဲလာတာကြောင့်အသက်ရှူရခက်လာမယ်။ နောက်ပိုင်းမှာ လုံးဝကို လေလဲလှယ်မှုမလုပ်နိုင်တော့တဲ့အခြေအနေဖြစ်ပြီး သေဆုံးနိုင်တယ်။ တကယ်လို့ မသေဆုံးဘူးဆိုရင်တောင်မှ အဆုတ်မှာ အမာရွတ်တွေကျန်သွားမယ်။.."
Source/publisher: "DVB" (Myanmar)
2020-03-02
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Sub-title: What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how does it spread, and at what point should you call a doctor?
Description: "What is Covid-19 – the illness that started in Wuhan? It is caused by a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those initially infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city. What are the symptoms this coronavirus causes? The virus can cause pneumonia. Those who have fallen ill are reported to suffer coughs, fever and breathing difficulties. In severe cases there can be organ failure. As this is viral pneumonia, antibiotics are of no use. The antiviral drugs we have against flu will not work. Recovery depends on the strength of the immune system. Many of those who have died were already in poor health. Should I go to the doctor if I have a cough? In the UK, the medical advice is that if you have recently travelled from areas affected by coronavirus, you should: stay indoors and avoid contact with other people as you would with the flu call NHS 111 to inform them of your recent travel to the area More NHS advice on what to do if you think you have been exposed to the virus can be found here, and the full travel advice to UK nationals is available here..."
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Source/publisher: "The Guardian" (UK)
2020-03-02
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Sub-title: This is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation and CDC will provide updated information as it becomes available, in addition to updated guidance.
Description: "CDC is responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that was first detected in China and which has now been detected in 60 locations internationally, including in the United States. The virus has been named “SARS-CoV-2” and the disease it causes has been named “coronavirus disease 2019” (abbreviated “COVID-19”). On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concernexternal icon” (PHEIC). On January 31, 2020, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency (PHE) for the United States to aid the nation’s healthcare community in responding to COVID-19. Source and Spread of the Virus Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats. Rarely, animal coronaviruses can infect people and then spread between people such as with MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and now with this new virus (named SARS-CoV-2). The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a betacoronavirus, like MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV. All three of these viruses have their origins in bats. The sequences from U.S. patients are similar to the one that China initially posted, suggesting a likely single, recent emergence of this virus from an animal reservoir..."
Source/publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (USA)
2020-02-29
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-01
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Sub-title: Researchers currently think that between five and 40 coronavirus cases in 1,000 will result in death, with a best guess of nine in 1,000 or about 1%.
Description: "Scientists combine individual pieces of evidence about each of these questions to build a picture of the death rate. For example, they estimate the proportion of cases with mild symptoms from small, defined groups of people who are monitored very tightly, like people on repatriated flights. But slightly different answers from those pieces of evidence will add up to big changes in the overall picture. If you just use data from Hubei, where the death rate has been much higher than elsewhere in China, then the overall death rate will look much worse. So scientists give a range as well as a best current estimate. But even that doesn't tell the full story because there is no single death rate..."
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Source/publisher: "BBC News" (London)
2020-02-29
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-01
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Topic: coronavirus, COVID-19
Sub-title: UPDATE 1: The Health Ministry assured Saturday that Myanmar remains free of the new coronavirus or COVID-19 as three foreigners tested negative for the deadly disease that has already killed over 2900 people around the world.
Topic: coronavirus, COVID-19
Description: "From January 31 to February 29, health authorities have tested 43 people that showed symptoms of the disease, but all the results tested negative. The ministry said one 27-year-old male British citizen, one 32-year-old male American and one 25-year-old female Chinese citizen, were being treated at Waibagi Hospital in Yangon after showing symptoms of the disease. All three underwent testing for the virus, but the results were negative, according to the National Health Laboratory (NHL) in Yangon. Health authorities quarantined on Friday seven female university students who arrived at Yangon International Airport from Daegu city in South Korea, where there is a reported outbreak of COVID-19. Quarantined at Waibagi Hospital, officials said the students are in good health. The ministry said all the 22 people who had contact with the South Korean tourist, diagnosed with the illness upon arrival in Seoul last week, after visiting Southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, are in good health and have not shown symptoms of the disease..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-29
Date of entry/update: 2020-03-01
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Description: "As coronavirus cases continue to soar globally, in at least one region a steady façade of optimism persists. Southeast Asia’s foreign ministers have joined hands with China and declared their intention to “stay strong!” Yet their hastily called meeting in secretive, socialist Laos last week suggests not so much resiliency as the need to shore up mutual support. Health experts are widely skeptical of the numbers reported by China’s neighbors, and believe the deadly infection is spreading undetected throughout much of Southeast Asia. With infection clusters increasingly sprouting outside the mainland, where the virus originated, many fear these pockets—rooted out or not—are sustaining the outbreak and pushing the world toward a global pandemic. The disease, officially COVID-19, has sickened over 83,000 and killed more than 2,850, primarily in China. But cases have spread to more than four dozen countries, and been identified as far away as Brazil and Finland. Strangely absent from the list are Myanmar and Laos, which border China, as well as Brunei, East Timor, and Indonesia—of which the latter had daily, direct flights to the virus epicenter, Wuhan. Every other country in the region, all beneficiaries of Chinese aid, investment and tourism, has reported cases..."
Source/publisher: "Time"
2020-02-28
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-29
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Sub-title: The pair were unable to return with a previous batch because one was ill and the other was travelling
Description: "The Indian Air Force has evacuated two Myanmar students from the Chinese city of Wuhan after they were declared free of coronavirus. The pair were unable to join 61 students who flew back to Myanmar early this month because one was ill and another was travelling outside of Wuhan, a Myanmar embassy official in Beijing told Myanmar Now, requesting anonymity. They joined dozens of mostly Indian nationals on the Air Force flight to New Delhi, which departed around 2am on Thursday morning local time. “They will be quarantined for 14 days and will be brought to Myanmar,” the official said. Myanmar was making plans to bring them home when India contacted several embassies with an offer to allow some foreign nationals on the return flight of a plane carrying medical supplies to the city. The two evacuees had been doing further studies under a Myanmar foreign ministry programme in Wuhan when the city became the epicenter of a global panic around the new flu-like virus that emerged there in late December. India’s Globemaster plane was carrying 76 Indians, 23 Bangladeshis, and nationals from the Maldives, the US, China, and South Korea, on the flight out of the city, Indian ambassador to China Vikram Misri wrote on Twitter..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2020-02-28
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-29
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Description: "Even as China pushes factories to reopen, the ripple effects of Covid-19 have already proved inescapable for manufacturers outside the country. Particularly hard hit is Southeast Asia, where industries that depend on China for raw materials are being hobbled as their supplies dry up. In Cambodia, the government today warned about 200 factories making mostly clothing will probably have to slow or cease production entirely due to a lack of raw materials. China—the world’s biggest textile exporter—provides more than 60% of the materials feeding Cambodia’s garment and textile factories, according to the country’s association of garment manufacturers. Prime Minister Hun Sen has publicly urged the Chinese ambassador to send more materials by ship and plane so the industry won’t have to shut down.Vietnam is facing similar situations in its garment industry and beyond, with China being a major supplier of steel and components for electronics. “Car, electronics and phone manufacturers are experiencing difficulty in acquiring supplies and materials due to disruptions from the virus,” an agency representing Vietnam’s manufacturing sector told Reuters. Phone maker Samsung, which manufactures in Vietnam, is among the companies facing a serious production slowdown. Even the furniture industry, which gets component parts from China, is under duress..."
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Source/publisher: Quartz
2020-02-28
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-28
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Description: "WHO - Press Conference: Update on the situation regarding Coronavirus Disease (COVID - 19) (Geneva, 25 February 2020)..."
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Source/publisher: United Nations
2020-02-26
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-28
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Description: "Passenger arrivals at Myanmar’s three international airports have tumbled 36% so far in February from the prior month because of the travel curbs sparked by the novel coronavirus outbreak. There’s been a particularly pronounced drop in the number of Chinese visitors, to 2,000 a week from a usual average of about 30,000, said Ne Win, director of air transport at the Department of Civil Aviation. “The virus has negatively affected all airlines, routes and destinations,” Ne Win said in an interview Tuesday in Yangon. Before the virus outbreak, 17 airlines flew 30 routes from Myanmar to mainland China and Hong Kong, he said, adding that’s fallen to eight airlines and seven routes. “The impact of the virus could last as long as a year,” Ne Win said..."
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Source/publisher: "Bloomberg News" (New York)
2020-02-26
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-27
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Sub-title: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has delivered COVID-19 testing kits to Myanmar’s National Health Laboratory (NHL) to help with the rapid detection of the virus, the Japanese aid agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
Description: "The kits, which contain primer and testing reagents, worth ¥400,000 (K5.21 million/US$3600) will boost the country’s ability to prevent entry of the deadly disease. JICA officials said they handed over the first batch of the kits in response to an urgent request from the NHL. The aid agency said Japan will do its best to help Myanmar in the fight against COVID-19. “Myanmar has had relatively higher rates of infection from major infectious diseases compared to other ASEAN counties, which requires it to strengthen its capacity to respond to and diagnose such diseases,” the statement said. “Since 2005, through Japan’s development assistance, JICA has provided technical cooperation to enhance the country’s capacity to handle major infectious disease.” The NHL has been designated by the Ministry of Health and Sports as the lead institution to perform diagnosis of suspected COVID-19 cases. The laboratory performed parallel testing for COVID-19 with the World Health Organization’s designated laboratory, with consistent results. The NHL began independent testing for COVID-19 last Thursday. As of Monday, 40 people suspected to have the disease had tested negative, and Myanmar had no confirmed cases..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-26
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-26
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Sub-title: Myanmar has ordered home quarantine for 22 people who had contact with a South Korean woman tested positive for COVID-19 in Seoul shortly after returning from a trip to Southeast Asian countries, including Myanmar, the Health Ministry said.
Description: "It said that so far the 22 people who had contact with the 34-year-old South Korean woman have not shown symptoms of the disease. The South Korean, who is now in Seoul, visited Myanmar for five days from February 13 to 17. It was not yet determined where she contracted the disease. Prior to visiting Yangon, the South Korean woman, from Gyeongnam Region, visited Malaysia. She also went to Vietnam before returning to Seoul on Sunday, where she was diagnosed positive of the disease, according to a report of Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention sent to the Myanmar Health Ministry. The Myanmar Health Ministry has not yet reported any case of COVID-19 infection in the country since the outbreak was first reported on December 31. Dr Khin Khin Gyi, deputy director of Contagious Disease Prevention and Eradication for the Department of Public Health, said all the 22 quarantined people are in good health. "They have no sign of fever, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. They are all in good health condition," she told The Myanmar Times on Tuesday.The Yangon Health Department is closely monitoring the 22 people and was instructed to inform higher authorities if any of them develop fever, cough, sneezing and shortness of breath. The 22 were told to wash hands frequently with soap and water, to cover their mouth when they cough or and sneeze with disposable tissues or clothing..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-25
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-26
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Description: "Two townships in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state face shortages of food staples, including rice, and rising prices, after China shut down border checkpoints in an effort to contain its coronavirus outbreak, a local lawmaker said Tuesday. More than 20,000 residents of Chipwi and Hsawlaw townships will face shortages from now until China opens the border crossings, closed until the annual monsoon season begins in late May, said Khaw Marwu, a legislator from the Lisu National Development Party who represents the Hsawlaw constituency. The two cold, mountainous regions along with Kawnglanghpu township lie in remote areas that are difficult to access as roads are rare, he said. Residents earn their living by farming, hunting, and selling forestry products. The Myanmar military and a number of armed groups are present in the region, including the rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA); the National Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K), an armed group that was converted into a Border Guard Force under Myanmar military command; and the Lisu and Rawang militias..." ..
Source/publisher: "RFA" (USA)
2020-02-25
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-26
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Description: "More than 130 Myanmar citizens working at a brick making site in China’s province of Yunnan have returned home as they fear the coronavirus, according to a statement released by anti-human trafficking police on February 24. Those Myanmar workers are 50 men and 88 women including those from Myakaing village, Kyauktan Township, Yangon Region. As the workers no longer wanted to work in China for fear of the coronavirus, they contacted the consul general’s office for help. Then, the office contacted the Yunnan Province government for further action. The authorities then sent the Myanmar workers to Chinshwehaw, a border checkpoint between Myanmar and China. The statement said that arrangements were made to send them home after they had received medical checkups at Hopan People’s Hospital..."
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Source/publisher: Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
2020-02-25
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-25
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Sub-title: A Chinese-owned bag factory in Yangon abruptly announced its shutdown on Monday due to a lack of raw materials caused by the COVID-19 epidemic in China.
Description: "The Lucky Sky Bags factory in Mya Sein Yaung industrial zone in Hlaing Tharyar township gave no notice to its workers, some of whom were on strike, before shutting down on Monday. U Myo Zaw Htay, one of the leaders of the strike, called for the factory’s licence to be revoked and its 20 Chinese employees deported. "They got a seven-year tax exemption for investing in Mya Sein Yaung industrial zone,” he said, “but it operated for just 11 months.” The factory, which has 642 workers, makes leather bags for export to Europe. The workers went on strike from January 31 to February 11 to protest against unfair labour practices, which made it difficult for the factory to meet export deadlines and resulted in a decline in orders, according to the workers. After reaching an agreement with the factory on February 11 the workers returned to work. But 10 days later, the labour union's secretary was fired for no reason, so the workers protested and the factory shut down, U Myo Zaw Htay said. The factory management vowed to pay the workers compensation. Lucky Sky Bags was the third Chinese-owned company to shut down in the past three weeks due to the COVID-19 outbreak that has infected over 79,000 people globally..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-24
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-25
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Topic: caution, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, death toll, epidemic, global spread, Health Ministry, infections, meetings, outbreak, public gatherings, warning
Topic: caution, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, death toll, epidemic, global spread, Health Ministry, infections, meetings, outbreak, public gatherings, warning
Description: "The Health Ministry on Sunday warned that Myanmar remained at risk of an outbreak of the coronavirus and advised people to avoid mass gatherings. The public caution was issued as the death toll from the virus continued to rise both in and outside China, where the epidemic originated. The virus, officially known as COVID-19, has killed more than 2,500 people in China, with the total number of confirmed infections there reaching 77,150 as of Monday afternoon, according to Chinese health authorities. Outside China, South Korea had reported 763 confirmed cases as of Monday with seven deaths. Infections have been reported as far away as Italy, where 150 cases have been found. However, China’s neighbor Myanmar has yet to report any cases. As of Sunday night, the country’s Health and Sports Ministry declared, no COVID-19 patients had been found in the country. The ministry on Sunday warned people to avoid mass gatherings as much as possible, despite the absence of any local cases so far, emphasizing that with the number of infections still rising in China, a local outbreak was still possible. “Only essential gatherings should be allowed and, if held, participants must strictly follow the precautionary guidelines issued by the ministry,” it said..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2020-02-24
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-25
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Description: "Bilateral border trade between Myanmar and China declined by US$209 million from Jan. 23 to Feb. 18 compared to the same period last year due to the spread of coronavirus, according to U Khin Maung Lwin, assistant permanent secretary for the Ministry of Commerce. The value of border trade through the Muse, Chinshwehaw, Lweje and Kanpiketi border trade zones totaled over $270 million—a decline from $479 million in the same period last year. “It was mainly because of the COVID-19 outbreak and Chinese New Year holidays. The holidays started on January 23 and normally end in early February,” U Khin Maung Lwin told The Irrawaddy. Before the coronavirus outbreak, the value of daily trade through the border trade zones was between $10 million and $14 million. Since the outbreak, it has dropped to between $1 and $2 million per day, according to the Ministry of Commerce. “Border trade has recovered slightly since trade resumed after February 13, but travel restrictions are still in force and watermelons are therefore not selling,” said U Khin Maung Lwin. “Around 40 trucks of honeydew melon have been exported to China as some Chinese supermarkets have bought them online. Also, only limited volumes of marine products are being exported as airlines have not yet resumed flights in the area.”..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2020-02-25
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-25
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Description: "Myanmar's military donated protective equipment to help China in its battle against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on Tuesday. The donation including 90,000 pieces of surgical masks, 90,000 pieces of N-95 respirators and 90,000 pairs of safety goggles were handed over to Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai at the Nay Pyi Taw International Airport. "The donation is as part of humanitarian assistance to portray closer military cooperation with China," said General Mya Tun Oo, chief of general staff of Myanmar Army, Navy and Airforce, extending wishes for speedy recovery from the epidemic in China. Ambassador Chen said it is a critically important moment for China in fighting against the virus now and expressed his belief that China will win the battle against the COVID-19 soon. A military aircraft loaded with the protective gears left Myanmar's airport to Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan province, on Tuesday after the donation ceremony..."
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Source/publisher: "Xinhua" (China)
2020-02-25
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-25
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Description: "Deaths due to the novel Covid-19 coronavirus have exceeded 2,600, including 2,592 deaths in mainland China, as of the end of 23 February. The number of confirmed infections surged to more than 79,000, with the cases in mainland China crossing 77,100. In other countries, the cases reached at least 1,300. Across China, the total number of new coronavirus cases has progressively decreased. Furthermore, daily recoveries have surpassed new confirmed infections since 18 February. The total number of recoveries rose to more than 24,900 globally..."
Source/publisher: Pharmaceutical Technology
2020-02-24
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-24
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Sub-title: A Myanmar pilgrim in the holy city of Gaya in India was discharged from the hospital after he was tested negative for the deadly COVID-19 virus, a Myanmar health official said on Saturday.
Description: "“This passenger has no travel history from China and he hasn’t contacted any person who is suffering from infection,” Dr U Aung Tun, adviser to the Health Ministry, told The Myanmar Times. “He is discharged from the hospital today after test showed he was negative for the new corona virus.” Dr Vijay Krishana, superintendent of the Anugrah Narayan Medical College Hospital where the victim was confined, told the local media in India that the hospitalization of the Myanmar man was in line with India’s protocol to address the problem of COVID-19 epidemic. The festive season in Bodh Gaya starts in September and reaches its peak in February. A large number of Chinese pilgrims visit different monasteries and the Mahabodhi Temple every year during this time. Thousands of pilgrims from Myanmar, China and other countries flock to the 18th-century Vishnupad Mandir riverside temple with an octagonal shrine, the ancient Mangla Gauri Temple and the Brahma Kund pond where Hindu devotees take a bath before honoring their deceased ancestors atop Pretshila Hill. “This year, pilgrims from China haven’t arrived following restrictions due to spread of coronavirus,” according to a local Indian tourism official..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-22
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-23
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Description: "Myanmar’s garment factories are facing the risk of shutdown as the coronavirus in China has restricted imports of raw materials, according to the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA). Myanmar imports up to 90 percent of raw materials from China and the rest from Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and South Korea for the garment industry which largely uses a cut-make-package (CMP) model. The number of deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China rose by 136, pushing the nationwide death toll to 2,004, the country’s National Health Commission reported (today) Wednesday. There are over 70,000 confirmed cases across the country. Many businesses, including suppliers for Myanmar’s factories, are struggling to function properly. “We have problems as 90 percent of raw materials come from China. We are waiting for the day when the Chinese side will resume operations,” garment manufacturer U Myint Soe said. Representatives from the Commerce Ministry and the MGMA met on Monday to address the issue, but no solution was found..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2020-02-19
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-23
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Description: "Yangon Region government ethnic Karen Affairs Minister Naw Pan Thinzar Myo said that entry into Myanmar by Chinese tourists fell by about 30% after some of the Chinese flights were banned at Yangon International Airport after the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. She was speaking at a press conference on Friday held by the Yangon Region Legislative Assembly, Tourism Affairs Committee. Minister Naw Pan Thinzar Myo said, “Most of the Chinese tourists came to Myanmar in Yangon-Ngwesaung 3-night, 4-day tours. Each of them spent an average of 200,000 kyats. So we lost this income earning from them but this is the global crisis. If we let them enter our country to avoid income loss we will have the risk of being infected with this virus.” During the five days before the banning of Chinese airlines entering Myanmar, over 6,200 tourists visited Myanmar but this number fell to just over 3,900 during five days after the banning of these airlines, according to the Yangon Region Government. Before the outbreak of coronavirus in China, two Myanmar airlines and 14 Chinese airlines were regularly operating between the two countries. Currently only four airlines coming from four cities namely Kunming, Shanghai, Mansi and Guangzhou are permitted to continue their flight operations..."
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Source/publisher: "Mizzima" (Myanmar)
2020-02-22
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-22
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Description: "Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Thursday called for countries to resume bilateral trade and people-to-people ties with China, saying it had taken “forceful action” to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus. These efforts were working, he said, referencing how China had reported its lowest number of new cases on Thursday since Wuhan city in Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, was locked down on January 23. “China is not only protecting its own people but also the rest of the world,” he said at a special Asean-China meeting held in Vientiane, Laos. “The outbreak may have some impact on the Chinese economy, but such impact will only be temporary and limited,” Wang said..."
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Source/publisher: "South China Morning Post" (Hong Kong)
2020-02-20
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-22
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Sub-title: The National Health Laboratory (NHL) has acquired the medical kits needed to help health professionals around the country verify suspected cases of the deadly COVID-19 virus, a senior Health Ministry official said on Thursday.
Description: "Dr Khin Khin Gyi, deputy director of Contagious Disease Prevention and Eradication for the Department of Public Health, said the NHL facility in Yangon is up and running. “The NHL will test two suspected cases at Waibagi Hospital in Yangon and Mandalay General Hospital who arrived in the country on Wednesday,” he said. “We won’t have to send samples to Thailand’s National Institutes of Health for testing anymore because the NHL’s tests are absolutely equal to those in Thailand,” she added. The NHL received the 450 test kits from the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science in Thailand, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Japan, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the ministry’s daily update, 37 people are under investigation and two are suspected to be infected with COVID-19 at government hospitals. Thailand’s NIH cleared 36 of them after their nasopharyngeal swabs tested negative. One person who is being treated at Magwe Regional General Hospital is still waiting for test results from the NIH. The ministry has approved the discharge of 26 suspected cases from state and regional government hospitals. “The patients who have been treated at government hospitals are improving, and no confirmed cases of coronavirus have been found in Myanmar,” Daw Khin Khin Gyi said. The government allocated K300 million (US$206,000) from the emergency fund for prevention and treatment of COVID-19, according to Health Minister U Myint Htwe. China said Thursday there are more than 75,725 confirmed COVID-19 cases globally, and the death toll has reached 2126. Some 16,330 patients have recovered from the disease. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern on January 31..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-21
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-21
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Sub-title: Countries have closed off their borders with China, airlines have slashed flights, and hotels have seen a big drop-off in bookings.
Description: "Last month, on January 19, Myanmar’s state-run newspaper left no question as to what was the biggest story of the day. The paper carried page after page of dry reports documenting the movements and meetings of visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Inside were photos of Xi and Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, sitting in gilded chairs behind a table draped in red, yellow, and green fabric, the colors of Myanmar’s flag. A parade of officials had taken turns posing in front of them, clutching red folios that each contained one of the dozens of freshly signed agreements between the two countries. The visit marked the start of the “Myanmar-China Bilateral Cultural and Tourism Year.” Buried inside the same edition of the paper was a single article, plucked from the AFP newswire, detailing alarm by medical experts in London over the spread of a “mysterious SARS-like virus in China” and warning that the scale of the outbreak was “likely far bigger than officially reported.” Of the two stories, this is the one proving to be more important to Myanmar, Southeast Asia, and the world. The illness, now officially labeled COVID-19, has raced across the globe, infecting tens of thousands of people and killing more than 2,000, predominantly in China. Countries have closed their borders to Chinese travelers; airlines have slashed flights and limited routes. Points of transit across Asia—train stations, bus depots, airports—have seen traffic plummet, and some are nearly deserted. Leaders in Beijing are undertaking a sprawling lockdown and quarantine on a scale that is difficult to comprehend. The impact on the global economy is still yet to be fully understood..."
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Source/publisher: "The Atlantic" (Boston)
2020-02-19
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-20
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Description: "Novel Coronavirus အကြောင်း သိကောင်းစရာ စကားဝိုင်း (၂) ----------------------------------------- ဝူဟန်ရောဂါလို့ လူသိများနေတဲ့ တရုတ်နိုင်ငံဝူဟန်ဒေသက Novel Coronavirus ဗိုင်းရပ်ကြောင့် သေဆုံးသူ (၂၀၀)ခန့်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့အတွက် အတော်များများကစိုးရိမ်နေကြပါတယ်။ … ဒီရောဂါ ဘယ်ကနေ ဘယ်လိုပေါ်လာတာလဲ၊ ဘယ်လိုကြိုတင်ကာကွယ်နိုင်မလဲ၊ မီဒီယာတွေမှာ ဒီအကြောင်း ဘယ်လိုဖေါ်ပြနေသလဲ၊ အများပြည်သူဆီ ပညာပေးမှုလမ်းကြောင်းတွေက ထိရောက်မှု ရှိရဲ့လား။ … စတဲ့ အကြောင်းအရာတွေနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး ဒီရောဂါအကြောင်း ဆောင်းပါးတွေရေးနေသူ Hello Doctor က ဒေါက်တာသူရိန်လှိုင်ဝင်းနဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ မီဒီယာကောင်စီက ဦးဇေယျာလှိုင်တို့ကို One News က ဖိတ်ခေါ် ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။..."
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Source/publisher: "One News" (Myanmar)
2020-01-31
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-18
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Description: "Novel Coronavirus အကြောင်း သိကောင်းစရာ စကားဝိုင်း (၁) ----------------------------------------- ဝူဟန်ရောဂါလို့ လူသိများနေတဲ့ တရုတ်နိုင်ငံဝူဟန်ဒေသက Novel Coronavirus ဗိုင်းရပ်ကြောင့် သေဆုံးသူ(၁၇၀)ခန့်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့အတွက် အတော်များများကစိုးရိမ်နေကြပါတယ်။ ဆိုတော့ ဒီရောဂါကဘယ်ကနေဘယ်လိုပေါ်လာတာလဲ၊ ဘယ်လိုကြိုတင်ကာကွယ်နိုင်မလဲ၊ မီဒီယာတွေမှာကောဒီအကြောင်းဘယ်လိုဖေါ်ပြနေသလဲ၊ အများပြည်သူဆီပညာပေးမှုလမ်းကြောင်းတွေကထိရောက်မှုရှိရဲ့လား။ … စတဲ့ အကြောင်းအရာတွေနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီးဒီရောဂါအကြောင်းဆောင်းပါးတွေရေးနေသူ Hello Doctor က ဒေါက်တာသူရိန်လှိုင်ဝင်းနဲ့ မီဒီယာကောင်စီက ကိုဇေယျာလှိုင်တို့ကို One News က ဖိတ်ခေါ် ဆွေးနွေးထားပါတယ်။ ----------------------------------- တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းသူ - ထက်အောင်ကျော် ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးသူ– ဒေါက်တာသူရိန်လှိုင်ဝင်း( Hello Doctor)၊ ဦးဇေယျာလှိုင် (မြန်မာမီဒီယာကောင်စီ) --------------------------------------- အပိုင်း (၂)ကို မနက်ဖန်ညနေမှာ ဆက်လက်ထုတ်လွှင့်ပေးမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။..."
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Source/publisher: "One News" (Myanmar)
2020-01-31
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Sub-title: Covid-19 not as deadly as Sars, figures show, and children not affected in same way as adults
Description: "Covid-19, the new coronavirus that has killed nearly 1,800 people in China, causes only mild disease in four out of five people who get it, the World Health Organization has said. “It appears that Covid-19 is not as deadly as other coronaviruses, including Sars and Mers,” said the WHO director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, adding that officials were “starting to get a clearer picture of the outbreak”. The conclusion comes from analysis of data from Chinese authorities relating to 44,000 cases of Covid-19 in Hubei province, where the coronavirus was first recorded. “More than 80% of patients have mild disease and will recover, 14% have severe disease including pneumonia and shortness of breath, 5% have critical disease including respiratory failure, septic shock and multi-organ failure, and 2% of cases are fatal,” Tedros said in Geneva. “The risk of death increases the older you are.” He said children were not suffering from Covid-19 in the same way as adults, and more research was needed to find out why. There were still gaps in understanding that he hoped the WHO’s team of international experts would be able to work towards filling..."
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Source/publisher: "The Guardian" (UK)
2020-02-17
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-18
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Sub-title: Health officials in China have published the first details of more than 44,000 cases of Covid-19, in the biggest study since the outbreak began.
Description: "Data from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) finds that more than 80% of the cases have been mild, with the sick and elderly most at risk. The research also points to the high risk to medical staff. A hospital director in the city of Wuhan died from the virus on Tuesday. Liu Zhiming, 51, was the director of the Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan - one of the leading hospitals in the virus epicentre. He is one of the most senior health officials to die so far. Hubei, the province Wuhan is in, is the worst affected province in the country. The report by the CCDC shows the province's death rate is 2.9% compared with 0.4% in the rest of the country. The findings put the overall death rate of the Covid-19 virus at 2.3%. China's latest official figures released on Tuesday put the overall death toll at 1,868 and 72,436 infections..."
Source/publisher: "BBC News" (London)
2020-02-18
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-18
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Description: COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) - Update News from February 16, 2020.
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-16
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-17
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Sub-title: U Kyaw Aung, who is about 50-years-old, moved from Maubin in Ayeyarwady division, to a slum in Yangon over ten years ago. Over 60 migrant households live in the same squat at the corner of Seikkan Thar Street and Wutmasut Wun Htauk Street in Industrial Zone No. 4, Yay Okkan Ward, Hlaing Tharyar township.
Description: "As the lanes are muddy with stagnant water, their huts were built on elevated stilts – to keep the interiors dry and clean from the sludge outside. Ramshackle bamboo bridges connect one hut with another. Most dwellers work in the nearby industrial zones. The surroundings are unsanitary, and the houses lack proper plumbing for toilets. As residents frequently bathe outside, it is a breeding ground for diseases like cholera, diarrhea and skin infections. Residents face many health issues every year. Dengue fever is caused by a virus carried by mosquitos, which are attracted to the abundance of still water surrounding the houses. Other health issues like cholera are caused by contact with fecal matter, caused by lack of sanitation from toilets. The Hlaing Tharyar township is home to the highest number of migrant workers in Yangon, with nearly 50,000 squatter households, officials said. Whenever an infectious disease occurs in Yangon Region, Hlaing Tharyar usually suffers the most from infectious disease outbreaks..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-17
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-17
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Description: Update News from February 13, 2020.
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-13
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Sub-title: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surveillance Dashboard (Myanmar)
Description: "(၁၅-၂-၂၀၂၀) ရက်နေ့၊ ညနေ (၈:၀၀) နာရီအချိန်အထိ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး/ ပြည်နယ်အသီးသီးတွင် စောင့်ကြည့်လူနာ (၉) ဉီးတို့အား သက်ဆိုင်ရာဆေးရုံများ၌ ဆက်လက် စောင့်ကြပ်ကြည့်ရှုကုသမှုပေးလျက်ရှိပြီး ၄င်းတို့၏ ကျန်းမာရေးအခြေအနေမှာ သက်သာကောင်းမွန်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher: Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar)
2020-02-16
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: Update news from 2020-02-12
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-12
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: "Protect yourself and your family from outside infections 1. Stay home when possible, avoid planes, buses, trains, queues, busy areas. 2. No visitors, avoid close contact with symptomatic people or potential carriers, don’t share cups. 3. No handshakes, kisses, hugs. Don’t kiss babies. All outside surfaces, money. 4. Gloves and meticulous hand hygiene, don’t touch eyes, nose mouth. 5. Wash hands, warm water and soap or hand sanitizers. 6. Catch it - bin it - kill it. 7. Coughs and sneezes spread diseases. 8. Faecal contamination, meticulous hand and surface hygiene. 9. Wear a quality medical mask or n95. 10. Wrap around glasses. 11. Avoid hospitals, limited visiting. 12. Good nutrition, vitamin D. 13. Keep warm, sleep, family life. 14. Thoroughly cook meat and eggs. 15. Avoid public spaces and wear a mask at home if you start to feel ill with fever..."
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-14
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: "We have a name "COVID - 19"..."
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-11
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: "COVID - 19 Definitions" By Dr. John Campbell
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-12
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: "A review of how this virus is currently named and how the disease is diagnosed..."
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-14
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Description: "Union Minister for International Cooperation Kyaw Htin met Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai on February 14 in Nay Pyi Taw and discussed Myanmar’s donation of 200 tons of rice to coronavirus-hit China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. “We don’t know about exact date of the donation. We are still coordinating as to whether the rice will be transported by ship or through border. But we will try to send it as quickly as possible,” said Aung Ko, director general of the Political Department. The minister praised the Chinese people for their united efforts to fight and control 2019 novel coronavirus under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, and expressed his belief that the problem could be overcome. The minister also expressed thanks to the Chinese government for its assistance and cooperation in evacuating Myanmar students from the city of Wuhan, said the press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs..."
Source/publisher: Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
2020-02-15
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: "Corona Virus Disease, abbreviated as COVID-19. CO VI D 19..."
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-11
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) - Update News from February 14, 2020.
Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-14
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: "NEJM, 12th February 2020, Journey of a Thai Taxi Driver and Novel Coronavirus..."
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Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-15
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: "Despite around one-per-cent decline in the global TB transmission every year, TB transmission in Myanmar is declining by 4.8 per cent every year, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports. According to the Global TB report 2019, 338 in 100,000 populations around the globe suffer from TB and 39 in 100,000 populations die of TB. According to the WHO’s estimate, one-fourths of the global population have latent Tuberculosis infection. According to the End TB, Myanmar has set a goal of reducing the number of TB patients to less than 10 in one million population in 2035. The ministry detected and cured around 140,000 TB patients despite the estimated number of 180,000 TB patients in 2018. The ministry’s mobile TB screening teams carried out accelerated TB case findings in rural areas, remote areas, worksites and prisons etc. For the eradication of TB, the government allotted a budget of Ks 14 million in 1995-1996 FY, Ks 626 million in 2010-2021 FY and Ks over 4,000 million in 2018-19 FY, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports..."
Source/publisher: Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
2020-02-15
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-16
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Description: COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) - Update News from February 4, 2020.
Source/publisher: Dr. John Campbell
2020-02-04
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Sub-title: China’s coronavirus epidemic is hitting Myanmar’s important manufacturing and tourism industries as well as disrupting border trade, but in the longer term the crisis could encourage more supply chain factories to relocate from its giant neighbour.
Description: "The outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan came at the worst possible time for Myanmar’s tourism industry, with the peak season lasting from October to March. The epidemic has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization and is having an economic impact well beyond China where economic growth is forecast by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to fall to 5.4 percent from 5.9pc in 2020. Fitch Solutions Macro Research this month lowered its forecast for Myanmar’s real GDP growth for the financial year 2019-20 to 6.3pc from 6.5pc, down from an actual 6.8pc in 2018-19. It expects the slowdown in tourism activity to account for most of the impact as Chinese nationals accounted for nearly a third of over two million foreign tourists last year. But the impact of the virus outbreak goes beyond a drop in Chinese travellers. Crude oil prices have lost around US$10 per barrel since mid-January on coronavirus-related fears. China is the biggest oil importer and if economic activity slows further then analysts say benchmark oil prices could dip by another US$3-5 per barrel. Oil and gas exports account for roughly half of Myanmar’s total export revenues and a drop in price will affect the government’s efforts to attract foreign investment in the upcoming bidding round. The energy ministry is expected to release 15 offshore and 18 onshore blocks to international bidders later this year. The EIU’s global trade lead Nick Marro expects much of the economic shock to hit China in the first quarter, which he says will have consequences for ASEAN over that same period..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-14
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-15
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Description: "This page includes information and guidance from the Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was first reported from Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019..."
Source/publisher: Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) (Yangon)
2020-02-15
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-15
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Description: "Myanmar’s minister of health and sports said on Tuesday that the government plans to set up an emergency fund of 300 million kyats (US$206,000) to use in tackling the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Health and Sports Minister Dr. Myint Htwe told the Lower House on Tuesday that the fund will support the ministry’s arrangements to prevent, protect against and treat the coronavirus. The minister said the fund will be used for equipment, medicines, laboratories and protective gear in intensive care units that treat infected patients. The minister also said that Myanmar will soon be able to do the lab tests to detect the coronavirus, as the ministry’s National Health Laboratory will soon receive reagents needed to conduct the tests. Thailand, Japan and the US have donated the reagents needed for about 350 tests. Currently, Myanmar has to send nasal swabs from tests to the World Health Organization (WHO) reference lab in Thailand. “The regents will arrive tomorrow and our lab will be trained so that hopefully, our lab will be ready by Feb. 20,” said the minister at the Parliament session in Naypyitaw on Tuesday. The minister also said that the results from the National Health Laboratory will still be double-checked with the WHO reference lab to ensure accurate results..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2020-02-11
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-15
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Description: "Myanmar can identify 2019 novel coronavirus in its own lab from February 21, said Dr Pike Htwe, Union Minister for Health and Sports in a parliament session held on February 11. He replied to a question raised by MP Dr Sein Mya Aye of Dala Constituency whether the ministry has plans to prevent the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus and to have fewer deaths if the infectious disease is reached to Myanmar. “The 2019 novel coronavirus can identify in Myanmar soon. We can test about 100 times in a reference lab in Thailand and 250 times in a reference lab in United States. Chief of the Asia Pacific will come to provide training in related with the coronavirus test,” he said. Although Myanmar can identify the virus starting from February 21, it is not late as there are 15 labs including labs in China, Japan, Germany, Thailand, Singapore, India, France and Russia which can identify the virus, he added..."
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Source/publisher: Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
2020-02-12
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-13
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Description: "Two companies from Myanmar donated a batch of disposable masks to China to bolster its efforts to combat the novel coronavirus. A total of 36,000 disposable masks were handed over by Young Insurance and Htoo Thit to the Chinese embassy in Myanmar. "The Chinese government has done a very good job fighting the outbreak. I wish the medical staff working the front line are healthy and hope they can overcome the virus as soon as possible," said Thiha Aung, chairman of Young Insurance. Zaw Lin, director of Htoo Thit, said, "Our aim is to help as much as we can to encourage our neighbor." "Our embassy plans to send these donations to the areas which are in need without delay," Li Xiaoyan, charge d'affaires of the Chinese embassy in Myanmar, told Xinhua, adding that these donations showed the deep "Paukphaw" (fraternal) friendship between the two peoples..."
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Source/publisher: "Xinhua" (China)
2020-02-11
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-13
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Description: "Myanmar’s largest private-sector airline said the novel coronavirus outbreak is likely to have an impact on its operations until April. The airline, Myanmar Airways International-Air KBZ Group, has temporarily suspended all routes to mainland China as well as Taiwan, Commercial Director Tanes Kumar said in an interview. “We had to shift some priorities within our strategy due to the virus outbreak,” he said, adding that once China flights resume the carrier should be able to make up the losses expected in the first four months of the year. Read More: Myanmar Expects 5 Million Tourists in 2020 Despite Virus Fears Kumar said the airline will continue to invest in fleet expansion and that its goal is to become a “local champion” like VietJet in Vietnam or Lion Air in Indonesia..."
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Source/publisher: "Bloomberg News" (New York)
2020-02-09
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-11
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Description: "An additional 66 cases of the new coronavirus have been confirmed on a cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama, Japan, raising the total number to 136, the ship’s captain told passengers on Monday. Japan’s health ministry has not publicly confirmed the sharp rise in cases. The ministry has announced new cases almost daily since the quarantine began a week ago, and the increase reported by the captain on Monday was the largest yet. The outbreak on the ship, the Diamond Princess, which has been docked at the Yokohama port since Monday, is the largest outside China. About 3,700 people, including about 2,600 passengers and more than 1,000 crew members, are quarantined on the ship, with passengers largely confined to their cabins. Passengers have grown increasingly fearful that the quarantine is putting them in jeopardy. The Japanese authorities have tested a few hundred people for the coronavirus who were believed to be at particular risk, but as the number of cases has risen, some passengers have pressed for everyone on board to be screened..."
Source/publisher: "The New York Times" (USA)
2020-02-10
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-10
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Description: "As the coronavirus outbreak in China continues to spread, having infected over 24,000 people so far, scientists around the world are racing to find a treatment. Most of the people infected with the new coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCov, have not received a treatment specific to that virus — because there isn't one. In fact, none of the handful of coronaviruses known to infect humans has an approved treatment, and people who are infected typically receive care mainly to help relieve symptoms, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, a handful of repurposed drugs, from drugs targeting Ebola to HIV, have already shown promise, according to new findings. Until recently, there were very few effective antivirals, said Stephen Morse, a professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. That was especially true for RNA viruses — like 2019-nCov and HIV — which use RNA, rather than DNA, as their genetic material, Morse said. That's changing. "In recent years, perhaps encouraged by the successful development of HIV anti-virals, which proved it might be feasible to do more, our armamentarium has greatly expanded," Morse said. Even so, developing brand-new drugs requires a huge investment of both time and resources, he added. So "while you're waiting for the new miracle drug, it's worthwhile looking for existing drugs that could be repurposed" to treat new viruses, Morse told Live Science..."
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Source/publisher: Life Science
2020-02-06
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-09
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Sub-title: As Death Toll From Virus Grows, More Chinese Voice Anger, Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses That of SARS Epidemic, Q&A: How the Coronavirus Differs From the Flu and SARS
Description: "Myanmar police have apprehended and returned to Chinese authorities one of five people from the city of Wuhan, center of the deadly, fast-spreading coronavirus, who slipped across the porous border between the two nations earlier this week. The only woman in the group tested negative for the virus and was repatriated on Thursday. No information is available regarding what happened to her upon arriving in China. Her compatriots remain at large, according to police in Myanmar. Her return came a day after police in the border town of Ruili in Yunnan Province notified the chief of police in Myanmar’s Muse District to be on the lookout for four men and a woman “more than likely [carrying] the new coronavirus pneumonia,” according to a letter dated February 5, and obtained by VOA Burmese. On Friday, a Muse police officer, who did not want to be named, told VOA, “We are still in pursuit of four missing Chinese. … Yesterday, we looked for those five missing Chinese soon after we received notification and found one woman in Muse. After health workers from both our side and Chinese side checked, she was found to be in good health..."
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Source/publisher: "VOA" (Washington, D.C)
2020-02-08
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-09
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Sub-title: Government looking to drum up trade with Singapore and Laos as exports to China dry up
Description: "Myanmar is losing the equivalent of $16 million a day in border trade with China because of the coronavirus outbreak, a senior official from the commerce ministry has said. Exports to China dropped by $160m between January 27 and February 5 at border trade areas in Shan and Kachin states, commerce secretary Khin Maung Lwin told Myanmar Now. Trade has dried up because buyers inside China are unable to reach the border due to travel restrictions aimed at curbing the virus, said Dr Thet Lwin Oo, Director of the Myanmar International Trade Center. Meanwhile Myanmar traders are having their Chinese visas denied, said Sein Win Hlaing, chairman of the Myanmar Rice Producers Association. Trade at the border is worth over $500 million a month, government figures show. Between October and January, China imported $1.4 billion worth of goods from Myanmar and exported $680 million worth. Khin Maung Lwin said that as there were now no buyers on the Chinese side, the ministry is looking for new export markets..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2020-02-08
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-08
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Description: "Intent on preventing an outbreak of the coronavirus in Myanmar, local officials and members of ethnic armed organizations, or EAOs, along the border with China have imposed travel restrictions, increased health checks, called for monitoring of Chinese workers and, in some areas, imposed fines. The border area — known for its rugged terrain beyond the government's control, enterprising smugglers, and long-simmering ethnic wars — concerns health authorities due to lax checkpoint controls. The measures in Myanmar by both the government and EAOs are being enacted as the number of deaths continue to increase in China, where coronavirus 2019-nCoV was first identified in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. According to the government, there are no confirmed cases or deaths in Myanmar. However, the swift spread of the not fully understood virus has alarmed many, leaving officials to quell rumors born of fear and long-held anti-Chinese sentiment..."
Source/publisher: "VOA" (Washington, D.C)
2020-02-07
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-08
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Description: "Some airlines continue to fly between Myanmar and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Kunming of China though most of airlines have temporarily suspended their flight operations in a bid to contain the coronavirus in China, according to the statement by the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar on 6 February. There are 12 airlines flying between Yangon and China. Eight out of 12 airlines have suspended their flight operations between Myanmar and China. The remaining four airlines continue their flight operations. Air China operates Yangon-Beijing schedule every Friday, China Eastern, Yangon-Shanghai, Yangon-Kunming and Mandalay-Kunming schedules, China Southern Airlines, Yangon- Guangzhou and Sichuan Airlines, Mandalay-Kunming schedule. The State-owned Myanmar National Airlines (MNA) and the private-owned Myanmar Airways International (MAI) also suspended their flight operations between Yangon and China. Most airlines have halted their flight operations till the end of February. Airport Health Quarantine Team is monitoring passengers using WHO-recognized Infrared Thermal scanners..."
Source/publisher: Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
2020-02-08
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-08
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Topic: Myanmar , Crab , Exports , China , Virus
Topic: Myanmar , Crab , Exports , China , Virus
Description: "Thousands of workers from crab wholesale centres from the Labutta township are now out of their jobs after China suspended its crab imports from Myanmar due to the spread of novel coronavirus in China. The suspension of crab exports to China has huge impacts on workers and the crab industry in the township. Crab is one of the major exports of Labutta Township, and it may have an impact on those involved in the whole industry. The price of crab declined to around Ks5,000 (RM14) per kilo from around Ks15,000 (RM43)per kilo after China stopped importing crabs from Myanmar. U Win Naing, Chair of the Labutta Crab Entrepreneurs Association said: “Due to the closure of border gates, we cannot ship crabs to China. We mainly export crabs to China. There are 130 crab wholesale centres in Labutta.” Labutta township exports more than ten tonnes of crabs to China every day. Most people in the rural areas rely only on crab fishing. - Eleven Media Group/Asia News Network..."
Source/publisher: "The Star Online" (Selangor)
2020-02-08
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-08
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Sub-title: Amid the coronavirus outbreak and panic, over 60 countries suspend flights to China
Description: "228 Taiwanese tourists are trapped in Myanmar's second-largest city, Mandalay, as the government suddenly suspends flights to Taiwan from the city, citing the escalating novel coronavirus outbreak. Taipei-based Far East International Tourism Group told local media outlets on Tuesday (Feb. 4) that 228 Taiwanese tourists traveling in Myanmar have been told their return flights set for Feb. 8 have been canceled. There are two air carriers operating flights between Taiwan and Myanmar. Taipei-based China Airlines operates flights between Taipei Taoyuan Intl. Airport and Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, and Myanmar Airways runs flights between Taipei Taoyuan and Mandalay, which just began operations last month. Far East International Tourism Group is responsible for tickets sales on behalf of Myanmar Airways in Taiwan. Media report that flights to Yangon remain normal, and only flights to Mandalay have been halted without prior notice. No further information about when Mandalay will resume flights to Taiwan was immediately available..."
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Source/publisher: "Taiwan News" (Taiwan)
2020-02-04
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-07
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Sub-title: Lethal coronavirus outbreak highlights unforeseen risk of greater connectivity with China
Description: "In mid-January, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a historic visit to Myanmar with a pocket full of promises. Xi vowed to build and finance big new infrastructure projects to connect the two neighbors in unprecedented trade-promoting ways in a so-called China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, which if realized as envisioned would serve as a poster child for his wider Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia. Fast forward three weeks to the coronavirus outbreak, which has killed at least 25 and infected over 24,000 in China, has spread contagion panic worldwide – and has suddenly put those grand Myanmar plans into certain doubt, as Beijing looks inward to contain the epidemic and Naypyidaw weighs new downsides of greater bilateral connectivity. Like other nations Myanmar has suspended visas on arrival for Chinese tourists, while the national hotels and tourism ministry has asked travel agencies to stop providing services to all Chinese nationals. Those measures could deal a hard blow to Myanmar’s nascent but crucial tourism industry. Chinese nationals accounted for over 17% of Myanmar’s documented 4.36 million visitors in 2019, a figure that is sure to fall drastically with the new visa ban..."
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Source/publisher: "Asia Times" (Hong Kong)
2020-02-05
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-07
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Sub-title: Three Chinese nationals and one Myanmar citizen suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus tested negative for the deadly disease that has already killed 566 people in the month since it began in neighbouring China.
Description: "The Ministry of Health and Sports said Thailand’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) found no sign of the flu-like virus in nasopharyngeal swabs taken from the four patients. "We are still monitoring them,” said Dr Khin Khin Gyi, deputy director of Contagious Disease Prevention and Eradication for the Department of Public Health. “We are giving them proper treatment and they are attended by well-trained medical staff. They are all in good health.” The four patients include a one-year-old girl from Sichuan province being treated at Kyaingtong Hospital in Shan State, a 15-year-old Taiwanese boy being treated at Waibargi Hospital in Yangon, a two-year-old Myanmar girl being treated at Loikaw Hospital in Kayah State, and a 29-year-old Chinese man from Guangzhou being treated at Nay Pyi Taw Hospital.Earlier on Monday, a Chinese man suspected of suffering from new coronavirus was discharged from a Yangon hospital after tests showed he did not have the disease. The man was taken to Waibargi Hospital with a fever on Friday after arriving at Yangon International Airport on a China Southern Airlines flight from Guangzhou. The ministry said it is monitoring six people across the country who have exhibited signs of coronavirus, including a 38-year-old man in Minbya township in Rakhine State, and a 45-year-old man in Namtu township in Shan. The ministry has sent nasopharyngeal swabs of the six to the NIH for diagnosis, and vowed to provide daily updates on the disease, which has afflicted nearly 30,000 people in China and elsewhere..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-06
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-07
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Description: "Migrant workers returning to Myanmar from China’s Yunnan province because of coronavirus fears are walking away from their jobs without receiving the pay owed to them, as their Chinese employers try to discourage them from leaving, sources say. Nearly 1,000 have crossed the border at Myanmar’s Chinshwehaw town since Jan. 28, with around 350 crossing each day at Laukkaing, both in Myanmar’s Kokang Self-Administered Zone, sources say, adding that most had been employed in chili and eggplant plantations in remote areas of Yunnan. Some are leaving without receiving their salary or money they have saved, because their bosses do not want them to leave, a resident of Yesagyo, a town in Myanmar’s Magway Division near the border, told RFA’s Myanmar Service in an interview. Others are meanwhile unable to leave, Ma San New Htay said. “The bosses do not give them their full wages, or control their passports, IDs, or other documents. That’s why some workers cannot return home, even though they want to leave,” she said. Also speaking to RFA, one returned worker said that many are now leaving China despite employers’ attempts to hold them back..."
Source/publisher: "RFA" (USA)
2020-02-05
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-07
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Description: " All 59 Myanmar students from Wuhan quarantined in Kantawnadi Hospital in Mandalay are still in good health, said Dr Ye Lwin, Mayor of Mandalay. “They are in good health and we are still monitoring their situation till 14 days,” said Dr Ye Lwin, who is also a chairman of the Surveillance and Response Team (SRT). A total of 59 out of 63 Myanmar students from Wuhan arrived back in Mandalay on February 2 and four remained in Wuhan as their body temperatures are high. “All students are not infected and they stayed in hostels of universities in Wuhan. They have not been ill since 14 days ago. If one of them got ill, we will move him or her to the isolation ward in Mandalay general hospital. We are following the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Mandalay residents need not to be worried too much,” wrote Dr Ye Lwin in his Facebook page..."
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Source/publisher: Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
2020-02-05
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-05
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Description: " Myanmar’s travel agents have been further hit by the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism’s suspension of visas-on-arrival for Chinese tourists and demands that tour operators cancel Chinese trips to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The ministry canceled visas-on-arrival for Chinese visitors on Saturday and on Monday instructed tour operators to suspend all travel services for Chinese tourists and tours from China. By ZARNI MANN 4 February 2020 Yangon – Myanmar’s travel agents have been further hit by the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism’s suspension of visas-on-arrival for Chinese tourists and demands that tour operators cancel Chinese trips to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The ministry canceled visas-on-arrival for Chinese visitors on Saturday and on Monday instructed tour operators to suspend all travel services for Chinese tourists and tours from China. The move followed the announcement by the World Health Organization that the coronavirus outbreak was a global emergency. “We have to cancel all of the booked tours for February and the remaining tours are at risk until the end of the peak season. Operations have completely stopped for small travel agencies that only handle Chinese tours,” said a tour operator from Yangon, who asked not to be named. Myanmar had been expecting to receive more Chinese tourists this season than in previous years. “We received twice as many Chinese bookings than last year. We pray the coronavirus can be controlled,” the travel agent said. Myanmar received more than 300,000 Chinese tourists in 2018 and more than 750,000 in 2019, according to the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism..."
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Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2020-02-04
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-05
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Description: "Six ASEAN countries have been on the list of the countries hit by novel coronavirus infection issued by World Health Organization, but Myanmar is still excluded. According to WHO figures available on February 3 morning, there are 14,557 lab-confirmed cases across the world—14,411 in China including 14 in Hong Kong, 7 in Macao and 10 in Taiwan. Of those confirmed cases, 2,110 are in serious condition. A total of 304 people died in China and one in the Philippines. The one who died in the Philippines had close contact with a confirmed patient. Apart from China, 23 countries are hit by coronavirus and ASEAN countries include Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. According to WHO, China remains at a very high danger level while other affected countries are at a high level. Previously, WHO defined novel coronavirus suspects as having fever, coughing, need for hospitalization and a history of visit to Wuhan 14 days ago and health staff or those having close contact with the confirmed patients. As for February 1, a history of visit to Wuhan has been changed to a history of visit to China. "Although infection is transmitted from human to human in China, WHO has regarded it as limited human to human transmission only. This is because infection is found in family members and health workers who have close contact with patients. This means that health workers should also stay alert to the infection," said Dr Khin Khin Gyi, deputy director of the Central Infection Disease Control Department under the Public Health Department..."
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Source/publisher: "Eleven Media Group" (Myanmar)
2020-02-04
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-04
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Topic: Chinese, coronavirus, Hospital, patient, quarantine, released, suspected case, virus-free
Topic: Chinese, coronavirus, Hospital, patient, quarantine, released, suspected case, virus-free
Description: "A 56-year-old Chinese man who quarantined in Yangon on Friday on suspicion of carrying the coronavirus after arriving on a flight from Guangzhou has been released from the hospital after his symptoms cleared up and test results showed him to be virus-free, according to Myanmar’s Health Ministry. The man had been under observation in an isolation ward at a communicable disease hospital in northern Yangon since Friday. The Ministry of Health and Sports announced in a statement on Monday that lab tests conducted in Thailand on samples taken from the man’s nose and throat showed he was negative for the new coronavirus. “His health condition is improving. So, he was discharged from the hospital,” the hospital said. The statement added that two Myanmar nationals on the same flight as the Chinese man who had also been quarantined were also released, as they were in good health. So far, the virus has killed 361 people in China. The number of infections has increased to 2,829 while the number of suspected cases has topped 20,000, China’s National Health Commission said..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2020-02-03
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-03
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Description: "A total of 153 Myanmar migrant workers arrived back in Muse on the evening of 1 February due to the mounting fears of Wuhan coronavirus in China. The returnees went home asking for the help from Myanmar Counsel Office in China. A worker said: “Normally, the trip to Ruli-Kyalkhaung takes about one hour. Chinese authorities have restricted travels from region to region. We arrived at Myanmar border gate at 10 pm.” Normally, Nandaw China-Myanmar border checkpoint is closed at 8.30 pm. U Thaung Tun from Muse Philanthropic Organization said: “They returned to Myanmar due to the virus fears. Chinese employers are unable to return to their factories and plantations as they go home during the Chinese New Year. That’s why, workers face a shortage of food. Some workers got salaries while other did not get their salaries. Employers deduct an advance payment of 1,000 Chinese Yuan as the workers go home before the completion of work.” Myanmar migrants are from Lashio, Taunggyi, Kantbalu, Monywa and Butalin Townships. More workers are planning to go home.
Source/publisher: "Eleven Media Group" (Myanmar)
2020-02-03
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-03
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Sub-title: Myanmar wants to expand its exports to other markets to hedge against a potential dip in demand from China, where a new respiratory virus has infected more than 14,000 people and killed more than 300, mostly from Hubei province, where illnesses from the new type of coronavirus were first detected in the city of Wuhan in December.
Description: "China is now Myanmar’s largest export market. Already, trading of melons has come to a standstill and prices have halved, said U Naing Win, chair of the Myanmar Watermelon and Muskmelon Producers and Exporters Association. As such, preparations are being made for Myanmar to send more goods to other markets to avoid any volatility in demand from China. “As the market has just reopened after the Chinese New Year break, we can’t tell the exact extent of the impact the Wuhan virus has on the export market yet. But we are working on seeking new border markets to export our goods in the event that the spread of the virus continues,” U Aung Htoo, Deputy Minister for Commerce, said in a press briefing on the drafting of the National Export Strategy 2020-2025 on January 31. Plans have also been made to export more goods via air and maritime routes to offset slower trade at the border. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, China has stopped importing melons from Myanmar and stockpiles of fruit are being held in Yunnan province. Around 80 percent of total border trade takes place at the Muse trade gate on the Myanmar-China border..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-02-03
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-03
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Description: "News Update: 59 out of 63 Myanmar students stranded in the novel coronavirus-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan arrived back at Mandalay International Airport this morning. They were transported to Kandawnadi hospital in Mandalay for medical screening. They are being quarantined at the hospital. Four students remain there as one is not in conformity with the immigration rules, one is present outside the province and two others have high body temperatures, according to the statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs..."
Source/publisher: "Eleven Media Group" (Myanmar)
2020-02-01
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-02
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Description: "Yet another flight has been turned back to China due to suspicions that a passenger had contracted coronavirus. Today, Myanmar turned a China Southern flight back to China after a passenger was found to have flu-like symptoms. As the virus spreads, so do the stories of flight disruptions and delays. The latest update shows that a flight from Guangzhou in China was returned to its origin with almost all passengers still on board. A Chinese national disembarked in Yangon, Myanmar, and was immediately sent to a hospital. It has been reported that two Myanmar citizens also disembarked and will be isolated at home for two weeks. Although no official cases of coronavirus have been reported in Myanmar, or on the flight, all of the other passengers were forced to remain on the plane and were flown back to China. According to airport officials, there were a total of 79 people on board including the two Myanmar citizens who were allowed to disembark, two American, two French, a Colombian and 72 Chinese nationals, all but one of whom were forced to return to China. The flight left China on Friday Morning, arriving in Myanmar at 10.40 local time. The plane was then returned to China landing at 19.34 local time, almost three hours late. The Airbus A319 twin-jet aircraft was being operated by China Southern Airlines..."
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Source/publisher: Simple Flying
2020-01-31
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-02
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Description: "(This article will be updated continuously. It was originally published on January 28, 2020. It was last updated on February 1, 2020) Due to the developing situation in China and Asia concerning the Wuhan Coronavirus, we will be operating this article as a running live update service to keep businesses involved in the ASEAN region updated with the latest relevant regional news. Note the potential for cases to rise in Thailand and Vietnam, given their popularity and ease of access by Chinese nationals over the Lunar New Year festivities is of particular concern. India also appears to be at risk..."
Source/publisher: "ASEAN Briefing"
2020-02-01
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-02
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Sub-title: Male Chinese passenger on flight from Guangzhou, China showing coronavirus symptoms rushed to hospital, say officials
Description: "A Chinese visitor in Myanmar suspected of having the coronavirus was hospitalized on Friday in the city of Yangon, according to officials. A China Southern Airlines flight carrying 79 passengers arrived in Yangon from Guangzhou, China. A 56-year-old male Chinese passenger was found to have symptoms related to the virus and was taken to the hospital, according to Soe Paing, the general manager of Yangon International Airport. "Authorities haven't allowed the other 78 passengers to disembark the plane," he told Anadolu Agency. According to the Department of Civil Aviation (DCA), only two Myanmar passengers will be allowed to disembark the plane. "The rest won't be allowed to enter the country," said a DCA director who asked not to be named as he is not a spokesperson of the department. "They will be taken back to China with the same flight," he told Anadolu Agency. Myanmar health authorities said there had been no coronavirus cases in the country even as the coronavirus outbreak worsened. As of Jan. 31, a total of 9,810 coronavirus cases have been seen in 23 countries worldwide, 99% of them in China..."
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Source/publisher: "Anadolu Agency" (Ankara)
2020-01-31
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-01
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Sub-title: Passenger with symptoms quarantined in Yangon but full China Southern jet sent home
Description: " Authorities in Myanmar turned back a China Southern flight from Guangzhou with almost everyone on board on Friday after one of the passengers was found with flu symptoms similar to the fast-spreading coronavirus, a government spokesman said. The plane arrived in the commercial capital Yangon and the passenger, a Chinese national, was sent to a hospital in the city where he will be quarantined, said government spokesman Zaw Htay. Two Myanmar nationals who also disembarked have agreed to isolate themselves in their homes for 14 days, he told reporters at a press conference. The plane returned to Gaungzhou with everyone else on board. Myanmar has no confirmed cases of the coronavirus, which first emerged in China’s central province of Hubei and has infected almost 10,000 people since, mostly in and around Hubei..."
Source/publisher: "Bangkok Post" (Thailand)
2020-01-31
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-01
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Sub-title: The Myanmar Embassy in Beijing said it hopes to send back home 63 students stranded in China’s Wuhan city as early as Saturday.
Description: "The Myanmar Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it is arranging a charter flight to bring the 63 students who are studying in Wuhan back to Myanmar. Myanmar is negotiating with China to allow the students’ evacuation, the statement added. The Health Ministry said it will quarantine and screen the students upon their arrival in the country. The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose to 170 on Thursday as foreigners in the worst-hit region in China began returning home under close observation.Foreign tourists are cancelling bookings with Myanmar tour companies as coronavirus spreads around the globe, tour operators said Sunday. U Myo Yee, of the Union of Myanmar Travel Association in Mandalay, said cancellations have come from several countries, not just China, where the outbreak of the disease started earlier this month. He said the cancellation rate was between 10 percent and 20pc, and he expected a decrease in tourist arrivals as some Chinese airlines had cancelled flights to the country. State Counsellor chides protesters State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi rebuked students who were protesting against a plan to lengthen the school year at an event in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. The students stood up and unfurled placards to protest the one-month extension while she was speaking at a seminar on improving education in the country. She said that kind of ceremony should not be exploited by a person or group to air their grievances, and that everyone has rights as well as responsibilities..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
2020-01-31
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-31
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Description: "Myanmar expects to achieve its target of attracting five million tourists in 2020, even as fears about the deadly coronavirus that originated in China cast a long shadow over the travel industry. "We're well-prepared to prevent an outbreak of this virus," Maung Maung Kyaw, head of the directorate of hotels and tourism, said in an interview, citing coordination with the Health Ministry on a plan of action. The new coronavirus has killed more than 100 people in China and sickened thousands. Asia's top economy has suspended outbound group tours to try and prevent the spread of the disease, denting the outlook for regional tourism. "We've been screening for the disease at all international gateways," Mr Maung Maung Kyaw said in the capital, Naypyidaw. Myanmar received 4.4 million visitors last year, a 23 per cent climb from 2018 powered by surging Asian arrivals, according to government data. The number of Chinese tourists more than doubled..."
Source/publisher: "The Business Times" (Singapore)
2020-01-28
Date of entry/update: 2020-01-30
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Topic: Health, TB, WHO
Sub-title: The Ayeyarwady Regional Public Health Department is urging the public, government and social groups to immediately inform health officials of people who may have tuberculosis (TB) so that steps can be taken to control the disease.
Topic: Health, TB, WHO
Description: "“Any government hospital or private clinic that treats a patient for TB must inform the Regional Health Department immediately so that we can treat them effectively,” Dr Than Tun Aung, deputy director general of the Ayeyarwady Regional Health Department, said. The department launched a programme last month to treat the disease under its Tuberculosis-Diabetes Mellitus Standard Operational Procedures. The department is conducting TB and diabetes screening to determine the extent of the disease in the region. People who have been exposed to TB patients are provided medication for three months as a preventive measure. Those discovered to have full blown TB have to take medicine for six months, and those suffering from multi-drug-resistant TB must take medicine for 20 months, the department said. “To reduce new infections, the cooperation of government offices, civic groups, and the public is very important,” Dr Than Tun Aung said. The department estimated there were about 300 TB cases for every 100,000 people..."
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Source/publisher: "Myanmar Times"
2019-09-10
Date of entry/update: 2019-09-14
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Description: Context: "Myanmar remains one of the 34 countries worldwide that have the highest burden of chronic malnutrition, where more than one third (35.1 percent) of children under 5 are stunted and 7.9 percent are acutely malnourished. Myanmar is also one of the world ? s 22 high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, with a TB prevalence rate three times higher than the global average and one of the highest in Asia. The country remains in all three lists for TB High Burden Countries (TB HBCs): TB, TB/HIV and multi - drug resistant TB (MDR - TB), with people aged under 15 years constituted 26 percent of more than 138,300 new and relapse TB cases during 2014. Myanmar is also one of the world ? s 27 high MDR - TB burden countries, and the MDR - TB rate among new cases is the highest in South East Asia. In 2014, around 210,000 people were estimated to live with HIV (PLHIV) in Myanmar, and in spite of 33 percent decrease in the number of deaths by AIDS, an estimated 10,000 people died of AIDS related illnesses in the same year. Although HIV prevalence in Myanmar has been in declining phase, it remains very high especially in people who inject drugs (23.1 percent), in men having sex with men (6.6 percent), and female sex workers (6.3 percent)..."
Source/publisher: World Food Programme (WFP)
2016-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-05-18
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Description: OBJECTIVES: This report aims to describe the prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as information on five determinants of tobacco use of 8th, 9th and 10th students in Myanmar: access/ availability and price, environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), cessation, media and advertising, and school curriculum. These determinants are components of the comprehensive tobacco control programme of Myanmar. The report also describes the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour regarding to tobacco use, the extent to which they receive anti-tobacco information in schools and from media and the extent they were exposed to pro-tobacco messages..... METHODS: A multi-stage, school-based, two ?cluster survey ( n= 6,100, 8th, 9th and 10th graders) was conducted in 100 basic education middle and high schools of Myanmar, using a pre-tested, modified questionnaire based on the Global Youth Tobacco Survey questionnaire developed by Office on Smoking and Health of Center for Communicable Disease Control, Atlanta..... INTRODUCTION: Tobacco use is the biggest public health tragedy since it is estimated to kill approximately half of its long-term users, and of these, half will die during productive middle age, losing 20 to 25 years of life. Peto and Lopez estimated that about 100 million people were killed by tobacco in the 20th century and that for the 21st century; the cumulative number could be 1 billion of current smokers.1 The increased use of tobacco is one of the greatest public health threats for the 21st century and the tobacco epidemic is being spread and reinforced through complex mix of factors that transcend national borders. For the international public health community tobacco is clearly a global threat. Globalization of the tobacco epide mic restricts the capacity of countries to regulate tobacco through domestic legislation alone. In response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic, the 191 member States of World Health Organization unanimously adopted the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control at the 56th World Health Assembly in May 2003, as a global complement to national actions. Myanmar, along with other Member Countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region is one of the Parties to the Convention. Surveillance of tobacco use is one of the components of the WHOFCTC; more than a surveillance tool on prevalence of tobacco use, the GYTS covers many important determinants of tobacco use which has been addressed in the FCTC such as advertising, cessation, education at schools, promoting of community awareness through anti-tobacco campaigns, access of tobacco products by minors and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Source/publisher: World Health Organization
2004-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-12
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Description: Summary: Myanmar as a Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control had adopted the Control of Smoking and Consumption of Tobacco Products Law in 2006 which came into effect in May, 2007. Ministry of Health has been implementing tobacco control activities in collaboration with related ministries; school-based tobacco control activities are being conducted in coordination with the Ministry of Education. Myanmar conducted Global Youth Tobacco Surveys (GYTS) in 2001, 2004 and 2007 and the Global School Personnel Surveys (GSPS) in 2004 and 2007. The GYTS is a school-based survey of students aged 13-15 years. The GSPS is also a school-based survey of all school personnel from the schools that the GYTS was conducted. The GYTS and GSPS were conducted as a nation-wide survey in Myanmar. Between 2001 and 2007, a significant reduction in the proportion of students currently smoked cigarettes is observed (a fall from overall prevalence among 13-15 year olds of 10.2% to 4.9%) but reported use of other tobacco products had increased during the period from 5.7% to 14.1%. Over the period, exposure to SHS at home and in public places did not change and stayed significantly high. There is very high demand from these children to ban smoking in public places (almost 90% of the children expressed this desire in both years). The ability to purchase cigarettes in a store had reduced significantly from 72.9% to 23.7%; percent who have been offered ?free ?cigarettes by a tobacco company had also reduced significantly from 17.1% to 8.7%. There is no change in percent of students receiving education on dangers of tobacco. There was relatively high prevalence of tobacco use among male school personnel ( 17% daily chewers, 22% occasional chewers ) ( 7.4% daily cigarette smokers, 29% occasional cigarette smoker)( 15% daily cheroot smokers and 18.4% occasional cheroot smokers). Schools had policy prohibiting tobacco use among students as well as students inside school buildings and on school premises, but enforcement was weak, especially for school personnel. Only one third of the school personnel had received training on prevention of tobacco use among youth.
Creator/author: Dr. Nyo Nyo Kyaing
Source/publisher: World Health Organization _SEARO /New Delhi
2007-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-12
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Description: JAPAN International Cooperation is leading the fight against three major diseases in Myanmar. The Myanmar Times? Khin Myat met with JICA project leader and tuberculosis specialist, Mr Kosuke Okada, and malaria expert Mr Masatoshi Nakamura to ask about their activities. 1. How much money is JICA spending annually to control these diseases? Our project period is from January 2005 to January 2010. We have been spending around ¥150 million per year on long- and short-term experts, international and domestic training, provision of equipment such as vehicles, lab equipment, microscopes, mosquito nets, lab test kits, local training and consumables.
Source/publisher: Myanmar Times (Volume 22, No. 425)
2008-06-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-03
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Description: New Government Restrictions Make Grant Implementation Impossible Geneva - Given new restrictions recently imposed by the government of Myanmar, the Global Fund has concluded that its grants to the country cannot be managed in a way that ensures effective program implementation. As a result the Global Fund yesterday terminated its grant agreements to Myanmar. The decision means that three grants, one each for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, with a total value of US$ 35.7 million over two years, will be phased out by the end of the year. The decision has been taken after consultations with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which is the Principal Recipient of Global Fund grants in Myanmar. The Principal Recipient is responsible for grant implementation in the country.
Source/publisher: The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
2005-08-19
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-01
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Description: YANGON, March 25 — Myanmar is seeking new drugs, diagnosis and vaccine to fight tuberculosis (TB), the deadly disease that is on the rise again. The measures also covers promoting the anti-TB campaign with the cooperation of partners, fighting TB through primary healthcare and disseminating public health knowledge, official daily the New Light of Myanmar said Thursday. The paper quoted an annual report of the health ministry as saying that Myanmar was able to find and cure over 130,000 TB patients in 2009, meeting the millennium goal of the United Nations as discovery rate reached 94 percent and treatment success rate hit 85 percent.
Source/publisher: Balita.ph
2010-05-25
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-01
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Description: "Despite limited resources, the NTP continues to improve the quality of and access to TB services, and is close to reaching the global target for treatment success. Although Myanmar maintains a high rate of case detection, analysis from a recent TB prevalence survey in Yangon is likely to show an underestimate of the TB burden. The arrival of the new Three Diseases Fund will allow the NTP to continue basic programme needs while scaling up collaborative TB/HIV activities and initiatives to engage all care providers and involve the community..."
Source/publisher: WHO
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-01
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Description: This article assesses whether social franchising of tuberculosis (TB) services in Myanmar has succeeded in providing quality treatment while ensuring equity in access and financial protection for poor patients. Newly diagnosed TB patients receiving treatment from private general practitioners (GPs) belonging to the franchise were identified. They were interviewed about social conditions, health seeking and health care costs at the time of starting treatment and again after 6 months follow-up. Routine data were used to ascertain clinical outcomes as well as to monitor trends in case notification.
Creator/author: # Knut Lönnroth, Tin Aung, Win Maung, Hans Kluge, Mukund Uplekar
Source/publisher: The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine via Health Policy and Planning
2007-04-12
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-28
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Description: Abstract: "A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at a tuberculosis center, Yangon, Myanmar from October 2003 to July 2004 to analyze the drug susceptibility of new sputum smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients. A total of 202 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates were tested for resistance to isoniazid, streptomycin, rifampicin and ethambutol. Resistance to at least one anti-tuberculosis drug was documented in 32 (15.8%) isolates. Monoresistance (resistance to one drug) was noted in 15 (7.4%) isolates and poly-resistance (resistance to two or more drugs) was noted in 17 (9.4%) isolates, including 8 (4.0%) multi-drug resistant isolates (resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin). Total resistance to individual anti-tuberculosis drugs were: isoniazid (29, 14.3%), streptomycin (11, 5.4%), rifampicin (10, 4.9%) and ethambutol (1, 0.5%). The demographic data and possible contributing factors of drug resistance were evaluated among the drug resistant patients. Poly-resistant cases had significantly longer intervals between symptom appearance and achieving effective anti-tuberculosis treatment than mono-resistant cases (p = 0.015)."
Creator/author: Wah Wah Aung, Ti Ti, Kyu Kyu Than, Myat Thida, Mar Mar Nyein, Yin Yin Htun, Win Maung, Aye Htun
Source/publisher: SOUTHEAST ASIAN J TROP MED PUBLIC HEALTH Vol 38 No. 1 January 2007
2007-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-01-30
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Description: "Each year since 1999 the NTP of Myanmar has detected more TB cases, with improving treatment success rates since 2003. High notification rates, coupled with preliminary results of a disease prevalence survey in Yangon, suggest that the burden of TB is probably higher than currently estimated. Slightly less than half of the 2006 TB control budget was funded, and funding gaps for 2007 and 2008 are larger still. The absence of a secure supply of first-line drugs poses a serious threat to the work of the NTP, the possible consequences of which include increasing drug resistance and loss of public confidence in TB control services."
Source/publisher: WHO REPORT 2008
Date of entry/update: 2009-02-24
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Description: Abstract: "Decades of neglect and abuses by the Burmese government have decimated the health of the peoples of Burma, particularly along her eastern frontiers, overwhelmingly populated by ethnic minorities such as the Shan. Vast areas of traditional Shan homelands have been systematically depopulated by the Burmese military regime as part of its counter-insurgency policy, which also employs widespread abuses of civilians by Burmese soldiers, including rape, torture, and extrajudicial executions. These abuses, coupled with Burmese government economic mismanagement which has further entrenched already pervasive poverty in rural Burma, have spawned a humanitarian catastrophe, forcing hundreds of thousands of ethnic Shan villagers to flee their homes for Thailand. In Thailand, they are denied refugee status and its legal protections, living at constant risk for arrest and deportation. Classified as ?economic migrants,” many are forced to work in exploitative conditions, including in the Thai sex industry, and Shan migrants often lack access to basic health services in Thailand. Available health data on Shan migrants in Thailand already indicates that this population bears a disproportionately high burden of infectious diseases, particularly HIV, tuberculosis, lymphatic filariasis, and some vaccine-preventable illnesses, undermining progress made by Thailand?s public health system in controlling such entities. The ongoing failure to address the root political causes of migration and poor health in eastern Burma, coupled with the many barriers to accessing health programs in Thailand by undocumented migrants, particularly the Shan, virtually guarantees Thailand?s inability to sustainably control many infectious disease entities, especially along her borders with Burma."
Creator/author: Voravit Suwanvanichkij
Source/publisher: Conflict and Health 2008, 2:4
2008-03-14
Date of entry/update: 2008-04-09
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Language: English
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Description: Introduction: Overview of Communicable Diseases; Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases; Principles of Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases... Disease Control Tools: Basic Concepts of Health Measurement/Disease Frequency in Epidemiology... Different Approaches: 4Role in Prevention, One Example of Immunization: Measles; Outline of Surveillance and Response Plans: Bird flu in Thailand; How to Break the Chain of Transmission: Tuberculosis; Steps in Outbreak Management: Meningitis; Dealing with Drug Resistance: Malaria; Fighting Against Vectors: An Example of Mosquito Control... From the Field: 100 HIV/AIDS Control: A Comprehensive Approach; Highly Active Anti Retro Viral Therapy (HAART): Adherence and Influencing Factors; Community Education on Birdflu: A Method of Participatory Learning and Action.
Source/publisher: Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI)
2006-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2007-07-17
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese, English
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Description: GENERAL HEALTH: Structures and functions of respiratory tract; Bird flu at a glance� DIAGNOSIS: Clinical approach to children with cough and/or difficulty breathing Clinical features of acute upper respiratory tract infections; Acute community acquired pneumonia in previously healthy lungs� MANAGEMENT: Treatment of acute community acquired pneumonia in previously healthy lungs; How to deal with an acute asthma patient? Coping with common cold and flu� FROM THE FIELD: Pneumonia case study; Recurrent respiratory infections in children� PREVENTION: Prophylaxis of Pneumocystic carinii pneumonia in HIV-AIDS; Glossary... Obese file in course of treatment
Source/publisher: Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI)
2006-03-00
Date of entry/update: 2007-07-02
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese, English
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Description: "Decades of repressive military rule, civil war, corruption, bad governance, isolation, and widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law have rendered Burma?s health care system incapable of responding effectively to endemic and emerging infectious diseases. Burma?s major infectious diseases—malaria, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis (TB)—are severe health problems in many areas of the country. Malaria is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality due to infectious disease in Burma. Eighty-nine percent of the estimated population of 52 million lived in malarial risk areas in 1994, with about 80 percent of reported infections due to Plasmodium falciparum, the most dangerous form of the disease. Burma has one of the highest TB rates in the world, with nearly 97,000 new cases detected each year.4 Drug resistance to both TB and malaria is rising, as is the broad availability of counterfeit antimalarial drugs. In June 2007, a TB clinic operated by Médecins Sans Frontières?France in the Thai border town of Mae Sot reported it had confirmed two cases of extensively drugresistant TB in Burmese migrants who had previously received treatment in Burma. Meanwhile, HIV/AIDS, once contained to high-risk groups in Burma, has spread to the general population, which is defined as a prevalence of 1 percent among reproductive-age adults.5 Meanwhile, the Burmese government spends less than 3 percent of national expenditures on health, while the military, with a standing army of over 400,000 troops, consumes 40 percent.6 By comparison, many of Burma?s neighbors spend considerably more on health: Thailand (6.1%7), China (5.6 %8), India (6.1%9), Laos (3.2%10), Bangladesh (3.4%11), and Cambodia (12%12).....The report recommends that: • The Burmese government develop a national health care system in which care is distributed effectively, equitably, and transparently. • The Burmese government increase its spending on health and education to confront the country?s long-standing health problems, especially the rise of drug-resistant malaria and tuberculosis. • The Burmese government rescind guidelines issued last year by the country?s Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development because these guidelines have restricted such organizations as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from providing relief in Burma. • The Burmese government allow ICRC to resume visits to prisoners without the requirement that ICRC doctors be accompanied by members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association or other organizations. • The Burmese government take immediate steps to halt the internal conflict and violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in eastern Burma that are creating an unprecedented number of internally displaced persons and facilitating the spread of infectious diseases in the region. • Foreign aid organizations and donors monitor and evaluate how aid to combat infectious diseases in Burma is affecting domestic expenditures on health and education. • Relevant national and local government agencies, United Nations agencies, NGOs establish a regional narcotics working group which would assess drug trends in the region and monitor the impact of poppy eradication programs on farming communities. • UN agencies, national and local governments, and international and local NGOs cooperate closely to facilitate greater information-sharing and collaboration among agencies and organizations working to lessen the burden of infectious diseases in Burma and its border regions. These institutions must develop a regional response to the growing problem of counterfeit antimalarial drugs."
Creator/author: Eric Stover, Voravit Suwanvanichkij, Andrew Moss, David Tuller, Thomas J. Lee, Emily Whichard, Rachel Shigekane, Chris Beyrer, David Scott Mathieson
Source/publisher: Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley; Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
2007-07-00
Date of entry/update: 2007-06-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "...This report seeks to synthesize what is known about HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB and other disease threats including Avian influenza (H5N1 virus) in Burma; assess the regional health and security concerns associated with these epidemics; and to suggest policy options for responding to these threats in the context of tightening restrictions imposed by the junta..." ...I. Introduction [p. 9-13] II. SPDC Health Expenditures and Policies [p.14-18] III. Public Health Status [p.19-42] a. HIV/AIDS b. TB c. Malaria d. Other health threats: Avian Flu, Filaria, Cholera IV. SPDC Policies Towards the Three "Priority Diseases" [p. 43-45] and Humanitarian Assistance V. Health Threats and Regional Security Issues [p. 46-51] a. HIV b. TB c. Malaria VI. Policy and Program Options [p. 52-56] VII. References [p. 57-68] Appendix A: Official translation of guidelines Appendix B: Statement by Bureau of Public Affairs Appendix C: Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Avian Flu notification.
Creator/author: Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH; Luke Mullany, PhD; Adam Richards, MD, MPH; Aaron Samuals, MHS; Voravit Suwanvanichkij, MD, MPH; om Lee, MD, MHS; Nicole Franck, MHS
Source/publisher: Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2006-03-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-04-20
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese, Chinese
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Description: Obese file undergoing treatment
Source/publisher: Aide Medicale Internationale (AMI)
1999-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2005-01-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese
Format : pdf
Size: 15.65 MB
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