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"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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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2020-02-25
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2020-02-25
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"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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"Xinhua" (China)
Date of publication:
2020-02-25
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2020-02-25
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"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..."
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Pharmaceutical Technology
Date of publication:
2020-02-24
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2020-02-24
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"Exports of watermelon and marine products on Myanmar-China border have declined by 209 million US dollars due to the spreading of coronoavirus (COVID-19), said Union Commerce Minister Dr. Than Myint, on 22 February.
“Till 14 February of 2018-2019 fiscal year, the total trade value reached 14.595 billion US dollars, up 2.147 billion US dollars compared with the same period this year. The export value increased by 1.053 billion US dollars. The border trade sees a decline due to the Chinese New Year holidays and the spreading of coronavirus,” he said.
“During the holidays from 23 January to 18 February, Myanmar-China border trade declined by 209 million US dollars—exports of 152 million US dollars and imports of 57 million US dollars, compared with the same period last year. It has an impact on water melon, sweet melon, perishable goods and marine products,” Dr. Than Myint continued.
As a measure to solve this problem, Yangon Region Government helps merchants to get the places for the sale of water melon and sweet melon in Yangon market, in cooperation with Yangon City Development Committee..."
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Eleven Media Group (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-02-23
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2020-02-24
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The Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association (MGMA) says it fears that half the garment factories in the country may have to shut down temporarily as soon as March, due to a shortage of raw materials from China.
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"The association announced this during a press conference at the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industries (UMFCCI) headquarters in Yangon last Friday.
According to the association, garment manufacturers in the country may be forced to take such action due to a shortage of raw materials from China. Some 90 percent of the raw materials such as fabrics, textiles, and zips used by garment factories in Myanmar come from China, and supplies have been curtailed due to the coronavirus outbreak in China. Much of China had been shut down for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday at the end of January, but the government extended it into early February as part of efforts to curb the spread of the outbreak. Even though the extended holiday is now over, factories in China only just started up operations last week. However, with many workers quarantined and travel restrictions in place, production is only restarting slowly.
Garment factories in Myanmar are already feeling the heat and have been coping since the start of the outbreak by reducing their operations and work hours, said Some factories have already started feeling the heat with reduction in operations and running hours, MGMA members said..."
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"Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-02-24
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2020-02-24
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Update News from February 22, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
Date of publication:
2020-02-22
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2020-02-23
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Dr. John Campbell
Date of publication:
2020-02-17
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2020-02-23
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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.
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"“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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"Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-02-22
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2020-02-23
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"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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"The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2020-02-19
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2020-02-23
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Dr. John Campbell
Date of publication:
2020-02-21
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2020-02-22
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"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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"Mizzima" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-02-22
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2020-02-22
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"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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"South China Morning Post" (Hong Kong)
Date of publication:
2020-02-20
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2020-02-22
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As per state govt directives, movement of people crossing international borders between India and Myanmar strictly prohibited, says Tuensang DC Kumar Ramnikant
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"Following the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID) across the world, the Nagaland state government has prohibited the movement of people crossing the international border between India and Myanmar.
An official statement from the DIPR on Friday said that deputy commissioner of Tuensang, Kumar Ramnikant, has notified that “as per the directives of the state government, the movement of people crossing the international borders between India and Myanmar is strictly prohibited with effect from the date of issue of this order”.
It said that this decision is “in view of the outbreak of novel coronavirus in China and other countries and on declaration of the same as Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO)”.
Necessitated in the “interest of public health and safety”, it said, adding that the order shall remain active till further notice.
Meanwhile, the DC has also notified that “a blanket ban on the hunting of wild animals is imposed within the jurisdiction of Tuensang district with immediate effect”, stating that “available evidence in the novel coronavirus and other respiratory virus suggest that there may have been transmission of viruses from wild animals to humans”.
A separate notification from the Mon deputy commissioner Thavaseelan K also said that in compliance with the advisory issued by the department of health & family welfare, hunting of wild animals and birds is banned within the jurisdiction of Mon district with immediate effect..."
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EastMojo
Date of publication:
2020-02-21
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2020-02-22
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Update News from February 20, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-20
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2020-02-22
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Update News from February 20, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-20
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2020-02-22
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Update News from February 21, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-21
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2020-02-22
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"When President Xi Jinping made his first state visit this year to Myanmar and signed new infrastructure contracts, there was no indication of the obstacle about to trip up China’s plan for railways, ports and highways around the world: the coronavirus. Travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the disease, which has now killed more than 1,800 people, have idled much of the world’s second-largest economy and choked key elements of Xi’s signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Chinese workers cannot get to overseas projects, and factories are cut off from the Chinese imports they need to keep running, according to more than a dozen company executives and officials.
“Many factories in China remain closed; those that are open cannot reach full capacity,” said Boyang Xue, a China analyst at Ducker Frontier. “Since many BRI projects tend to source equipment and machinery from manufacturers based in China, the disruptions in industrial production and supply chain will cause further delays.” One giant project, China Railway International Group’s $6 billion high-speed railway in Indonesia, is on a war footing..."
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"Reuters" (UK)
Date of publication:
2020-02-18
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2020-02-21
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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.
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"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)
Date of publication:
2020-02-21
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2020-02-21
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Countries have closed off their borders with China, airlines have slashed flights, and hotels have seen a big drop-off in bookings.
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"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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"The Atlantic" (Boston)
Date of publication:
2020-02-19
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2020-02-20
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Farm labourers and crab catchers are among the thousands of Myanmar facing hard times because of the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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"THE IMPACT on Myanmar of the coronavirus outbreak that began in neighbouring China late last year has hit border trade and tourism hard, and there were reports last week that the garment sector was also being affected by supply-chain disruptions.
As of February 17, Myanmar was monitoring eight people for symptoms of the Coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19, the Ministry of Health and Sport said. Earlier suspected cases of this novel type of coronavirus, including some in which patients were held in quarantine, have been confirmed as negative. COVID-19, which is a relative of the SARS and MERS coronaviruses, currently lacks a specific medical treatment and a vaccine is still being developed.
China’s decision to close four border crossings at the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year to help contain the spread of the disease has sparked a sharp downturn in trade, with the agriculture, aquaculture and seafood sectors the worst affected.
The number of Chinese tourists has also slumped, partly because visa rules have been tightened while the outbreak remains uncontrolled and also because of airlines cancelling services..."
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"Frontier Myanmar" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-02-19
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2020-02-20
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"Novel Coronavirus အကြောင်း သိကောင်းစရာ စကားဝိုင်း (၂)
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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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"One News" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-01-31
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2020-02-18
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"Novel Coronavirus အကြောင်း သိကောင်းစရာ စကားဝိုင်း (၁)
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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။
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ပါဝင်ဆွေးနွေးသူ– ဒေါက်တာသူရိန်လှိုင်ဝင်း( Hello Doctor)၊ ဦးဇေယျာလှိုင် (မြန်မာမီဒီယာကောင်စီ)
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အပိုင်း (၂)ကို မနက်ဖန်ညနေမှာ ဆက်လက်ထုတ်လွှင့်ပေးမှာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။..."
Source/publisher:
"One News" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-01-31
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2020-02-18
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Covid-19 not as deadly as Sars, figures show, and children not affected in same way as adults
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"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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"The Guardian" (UK)
Date of publication:
2020-02-17
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2020-02-18
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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.
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"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..."
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"BBC News" (London)
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2020-02-18
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COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) - Update News from February 16, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-16
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2020-02-17
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"As China goes all out to contain the novel coronavirus epidemic and some countries had evacuated their citizens, suspended flights and exaggerated the crisis, a launch ceremony for the China-Myanmar 2020 joint scientific survey of Myanmar's waters was held on Thursday, at Myanmar's Thilawa port in Yangon. This is the first major bilateral cooperation project launched by the two sides since President Xi Jinping's successful visit to Myanmar in January. It is a true reflection of the solid progress of the China-Myanmar community with a shared future.
During Xi's visit to Myanmar, the two countries agreed to jointly build a China-Myanmar community with a shared future, which received a positive response from all walks of life in Myanmar. Today, the epidemic fight has solidified the friendship between China and Myanmar. After the novel coronavirus epidemic broke out in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, YTV, one of the television channels in Myanmar, produced a seven-minute video to cheer for and support Wuhan and China, which touched the hearts of millions of the Chinese people.
During China's fight against the epidemic, the world has seen this scenario: Chinese builders worked day and night at "Chinese speed" to set up, in just over 10 days, two large-scale high-level specialist hospitals which were designated to treating novel coronavirus patients in critical conditions. The world knows it was a feat only China could accomplish.
The Chinese government has mobilized tens of thousands of medical workers to respond to the emergency. They headed into the eye of the storm without regard for their personal safety, validating the spirit of unity and mutual assistance of the Chinese nation during times of crisis.
The quarantine of Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic which has a population of more than 10 million, has been accomplished with the understanding cooperation of the city's people. While the city has been locked down, its order has been maintained and basic supplies largely ensured..."
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"Global Times" (China)
Date of publication:
2020-02-16
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2020-02-17
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A Chinese-owned garment factory in Hlaing Tharyar township in Yangon Region has temporarily shut down and laid off hundreds of workers due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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"The Hunter Myanmar Garment Factory shut down on Saturday, allegedly due to financial difficulties caused by cancelled orders and lack of raw materials. Ma Thandar Win, leader of the labour union at the plant, said the Chinese owner told Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein she could not access money because the banks are closed due to the virus outbreak.
“U Phyo Min Thein said he did not know when the epidemic will end and the banks will reopen,” she said. “It is cold there and is the flu season. When spring comes in April, the problems might end, but there is no guarantee.” Ma Thandar Win said the union and management will meet on Monday at the Labour Department office in Hlaing Tharyar to discuss compensation for the nearly 1000 workers.
The workers want a guarantee that they will be reinstated when the factory reopens.
“The factory is just 13 months old and has had problems,” she said. Under the law, workers must be employed for at least six months before they are entitled to 15 days’ compensation. Many workers are not eligible yet.”
She said some workers only need a few days before they reach one year of employment, which would qualify them for one-month’s compensation. “They could lose around K130,000,” she added..."
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"Myanmar Times" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-02-17
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2020-02-17
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Update News from February 13, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-13
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2020-02-16
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Surveillance Dashboard (Myanmar)
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"(၁၅-၂-၂၀၂၀) ရက်နေ့၊ ညနေ (၈:၀၀) နာရီအချိန်အထိ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး/ ပြည်နယ်အသီးသီးတွင် စောင့်ကြည့်လူနာ (၉) ဉီးတို့အား သက်ဆိုင်ရာဆေးရုံများ၌ ဆက်လက် စောင့်ကြပ်ကြည့်ရှုကုသမှုပေးလျက်ရှိပြီး ၄င်းတို့၏ ကျန်းမာရေးအခြေအနေမှာ သက်သာကောင်းမွန်လျက်ရှိပါသည်။..."
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Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2020-02-16
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2020-02-16
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Update news from 2020-02-12
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-12
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2020-02-16
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"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..."
Source/publisher:
Dr. John Campbell
Date of publication:
2020-02-14
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2020-02-16
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"We have a name "COVID - 19"..."
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-11
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2020-02-16
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"COVID - 19 Definitions" By Dr. John Campbell
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-12
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2020-02-16
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"A review of how this virus is currently named and how the disease is diagnosed..."
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-14
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2020-02-16
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"Corona Virus Disease, abbreviated as COVID-19. CO VI D 19..."
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-11
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2020-02-16
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COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) - Update News from February 14, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-14
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2020-02-16
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"NEJM, 12th February 2020, Journey of a Thai Taxi Driver and Novel Coronavirus..."
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-15
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2020-02-16
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COVID - 19 (Coronavirus) - Update News from February 4, 2020.
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Dr. John Campbell
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2020-02-04
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2020-02-16
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"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..."
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Myanmar Information Management Unit (MIMU) (Yangon)
Date of publication:
2020-02-15
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2020-02-15
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