RCL Myanmar donated 8-units of Medical equipment to Yangon General Hospital where intensive renovation is underway for COVID 19 prevention, control and treatment activities, yesterday.

The donation includes two sets of Oxygen Concentrator; two sets of suction machines, two sets of infusion pumps and two sets of 12 inch patient monitors.

Hospital Equipment donated to YGH, will have long-term benefits as it can be used not only for Covid-19 patients but also for patients with other medical conditions.

The donation was led by Thai Ambassador to Myanmar Ms Suphatra Srimaitreephithak, U Aung Than Htay, a member of the Board of Directors of RCL Myanmar Co., Owner’s Representative, Mr Chamnan Dashirun and Dr Yi Yi Myint, Medical Superintendent of Yangon General Hospital accepted the donation.

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VETERAN players of Myanmar National Football Team contributed K1 million to the Ayeyarwady Centre yesterday, announced by Myanmar National League on social media.

Ayeyarwady Centre, built by Ayeyarwady Foundation in the Thuwunna Football Stadium in early September, is giving treatments to COVID-19 patients.

The Centre has set up a temporary facility for a total of 875 patients, and its ICU/HDU, with the installation of modern medical equipment, can hold 125 patients.

The Centre expressed its gratitude to the donor footballers for their contribution .

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A relief flight by Myanmar National Airlines (MNA) bringing back 145 Myanmar seamen from Incheon International Airport (the Republic of Korea) landed at the Yangon International Airport at 9:30 pm yesterday.

The seamen needed crew-change after their contracts with various companies had expired.

The 145 Myanmar seamen — 122 from the Republic of Korea, 14 from Brazil, 1 each from UAE, Panama and Russia, and 3 each from Viet Nam and Australia — took the MNA relief flight.

As they arrived in the Yangon International Airport, the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Yangon Region government arranged proper medical check-ups, and 7-day hotel quarantine plus 7-day home quarantine for them.

To bring back Myanmar seamen stranded in foreign nations by relief flights in accordance with the instructions from National-Level Central Committee on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cooperated with the relevant ministries and Myanmar embassies from respective nations.

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The relief flight of Air India landed at Yangon International Airport yesterday afternoon, carrying 85 Myanmar nationals who were stranded in India due to suspension of flights amid COVID-19 outbreak.

In addition, a total of 157 citizens returned to Myanmar from Japan by a relief flight of All Nippon Airways in the same afternoon.

The returnees have to stay the 14-day quarantine at specific places or designated hotels after immigration processes and medical tests, followed by the 7-day home quarantine, which were arranged by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Yangon Region government.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been working with Myanmar embassies in foreign countries and local ministries concerned to bring back citizens stranded abroad due to the suspension of international commercial flights, in accordance with the guidance of the National-Level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19.

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THE relief flight of Myanmar National Airlines landed at the Yangon International Airport yesterday bringing back a total of 122 Myanmar citizens stranded in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

The fifth relief flight of MNA took a total of 122 Myanmar citizens — 88 Myanmar citizens from Australia and New Zealand and 34 from Papua New Guinea — from Sydney, Australia.

Myanmar Embassy in Canberra, Australia has organized the relief flights.

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Yangon Region government arranged 14-day quarantine at specific places or designated hotels, followed by the 7-day home quarantine.

The relief flights and chartered flights have been bringing back the Myanmar citizens stranded in foreign countries in line with the instructions from the National-Level Central Committee on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been cooperating with the relevant ministries and Myanmar embassies from respective countries. This relief flight is the fifth time from Sydney, Australia.

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OFFICIALS from Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) discussed with Yangon Region Immigration and Human Resources Minister Daw Moe Moe Suu Kyi on 26 September payment for social security contributions to the stay-home employees in Yangon following the government imposed Stay-at-Home order for the people in townships of Yangon Region not to go to their workplaces, except for the essential businesses.

They discussed provision of 40 per cent of the salaries to the employees who included in Stay-at-Home order, worked at private industries, factories and departments which paid SSB fees for June 2020 including cash assistance of K30,000 for each employees who does not pay SSB fees by the government, online payment programmes, compiling of labour lists, database establishment, systematic labour registration, correct or accurate documents and timely information.

The  meeting  was  attended  by  UMFCCI  President  U  Zaw  Min  Win,  Vice-Presidents  U  Wai  Phyo  and  U  Thaung  Tin,  Secretary  General  U  Aye  Win,  Joint  Secretaries  General  Daw  Khaing Khaing Nwe, U Aung Soe Thar and U Aye Tun, officials of Yangon  Region  government  and  Directorate  of  Industrial  Supervision  and  Inspection.

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A total of 21 Myanmar nationals stranded in Bangladesh due to the suspension of international flights returned by a relief flight arranged by Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka yesterday. The relief flight from the Myanmar Airways International (MAI) carrying the Myanmar nationals landed at the Yangon International Airport yesterday.

Similarly, 108 stranded Myanmar nationals in the US and 21 in the Republic of Korea were also repatriated by a relief flight arranged by Myanmar embassies in Washington and Seoul. The relief flight from the Myanmar Airways International carrying 129 Myanmar nationals landed at the Yangon International Airport yesterday.

At the Yangon International Airport, officials of Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, Ministry of Health and Sports and Yangon Region Government have provided them with arrangements for 14-day quarantine at designated centres, seven-day home quarantine and medical check-ups in efforts to prevent the coronavirus infection.

For the repatriation of Myanmar citizens who were stranded in foreign countries by relief flights and chartered flights in accordance with the instructions from National-Level Central Committee on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cooperated with the relevant ministries and Myanmar embassies from respective countries.

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The lab results have shown 12 confirmed cases on 21 September, 63 cases on 23 September and 279 cases on 25 September respectively.

The military medical corps provided treatment to the monks with fever at the monastery before they tested positive.

Yangon Region Social Affairs Minister U Naing Ngan Lin, Pyithu Hluttaw MP U Maung Maung Oo, Region Hluttaw MP U Wai Phyo Han, Region Head for Religious Affairs U Sein Maw, administrator of Northern District of Yangon Region, Head of Religious Affairs for Northern District of Yangon Region U Lin Lin Aung and Assistant Director for region Health Department Dr Kaung Htike and Insein Township Administrator U Win Aung visited Insein Ywar Ma Pariyatti Monastery and paid homage to Sayadaw Bhaddanta Gandhasara Linkara and Bhaddanta Pannyavamsa yesterday morning.

The government personnel donated 8,000 surgical masks, 400 cloth masks, 700 face shields, 4 gallons of hand sanitizer, 200 small-size bottles of hand gel and a total of K10million in cash -- K5million by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs and K5million by Yangon Region government.

They discussed with officials from township development committee, administrative officers, members of fire brigade department and civil society organizations about disinfection in the monastery compound, instalment of 20 hand washing basins at the dormitories of the monks, and proper disposal of waste materials from the monastery.

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THE 6th relief flight of Myanmar Airways International flew 174 citizens home from Jordan yesterday under the arrangement of Myanmar embassy in Tel Aviv. Those returnees were one from Sidney Apparel company, 11 from Rich Pine company, 14 from Century Miracle and 148 from Camel and Vega company.

On arrival at Yangon International Airport, officials from the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Yangon Region government helped the returnees for the 14-day quarantine at specific places or designated hotels after immigration processes and medical tests, followed by the 7-day home quarantine.

In accordance with the directives of the National-Level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working with the relevant ministries and its embassies in respective countries for the repatriation of Myanmar citizens facing difficulties in those countries.

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YANGON’S COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment committee is preparing COVID-19 centres as soon as possible to accommodate more than 4,000 COVID-19 patients due to the resurgence of the COVID-19 positive cases in Yangon, according to the committee’s Vice-Chair, Professor Dr Zaw Wai Soe.

It is expected that there will be 300 or 400 COVID-19 new patients per day in Yangon. A patient needs to be under treatment at the hospital for 2 weeks in order to stop the infection to others. The professor said that there will be 4,200 patients in two weeks if there are 300 patients per day and that is why a hospital is needed for 4,200 patients in Yangon.

Currently, there are 1,140 COVID-19 patients in Phaunggyi COVID-19 treatment centre, 70 patients in Waibargi hospital, another 70 patients in South Okkalapa hospital, 600 patients in Yoma temporary hospital in Dagon Myothit (Seikkan) Township, 500 patients in Hline University and a total number of 2,380 COVID-19 patients are being accommodated so far.

Ayeyarwady Foundation is building a temporary hospital for 400 patients in Thuwunna Stadium. The committee is also preparing Yoma temporary hospital to accommodate up to 1,500 patients and Hline COVID-19 treatment centre to accommodate up to 1,000 patients.

According to the professor Dr Zaw Wai Soe, this arrangement will let the hospitals to operate in the kind of 300 patients in and 300 patients out and if necessary, there are other stadiums to use as temporary hospital.

The professor continued, “This is the containment strategy. If we let the patients go back home and get the treatment at home like in other countries, there may be more likely to infect other people and environment depending on the conditions of their homes. Although people in rich countries have a room for each person, not everyone can live like that in Myanmar. Also, the culture is that families live together here and the virus can be spread to the elderlies. If so, this will definitely give trouble to them.”

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