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Submitted by moiuser on 4 July 2021

Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar

Ministry of Health and Sports

Order No 274/2021

9th Waning of Nayon 1383 ME

3 July 2021

THE Ministry of Health and Sports hereby announced the order by exercising the authority stipulated in Sub-Section (b) of Section 21 of the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases Law.

1. The Ministry of Health and Sports has taken preventive measures against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in real-time. Therefore, people from some townships of the Ayeyawady Region need to stay at home due to the number of confirmed patients on the rise in these townships.

2. Hence, the people residing in the Pathein, Myaungmya and Thabaung townships in Ayeyawady Region are involved in the Stay-at-Home programme.

3. The people inclusive of the Stay-at-Home programme of the townships need to abide by the following disciplines:

(a) Reside at their homes only

(1) except for service personnel serving at government department;

(2) except for those serving at private firms such as banks and monetary services, filling stations, foodstuffs and livestock and fishery, cold storage, medicine and medical equipment production and distribution, purified water production and sales, factories of manufacturing daily personal goods and related industries;

(3) except for staff from airlines, such as relief flights, cargo flights and specially chartered flights, general aviation transport services, ground services, fuel services, aviation export and import services, international freight forwarder companies, customer service companies and agencies, boarding foodstuff production and transport services and aircraft maintenance;

(4) except for staff from private ports, shipping agencies offices, international freight forwarder companies, customer service companies and agencies, container truck services, port export and import cargo trucks and watercraft, inland container depot and dry ports;

(5) except for staff from communication service providers such as post services, line phones and mobile phone communication services, internet services (exclusive of sales of telephone and data at shops), tower and fibre maintenance services;

(b) relevant region and state administration councils to issue necessary orders and directives and supervision for the prevention of COVID-19 infection at CMP factories and workplaces;

(c) organizations and companies to perform their works from homes;

(d) one person from each house to go out shopping;

(e) only two persons per house to go to hospitals and clinics;

(f) wear masks if they go outside the houses;

(g) allow ferries and registered vehicles only to transport returnees from workplaces to pass the wards;

(h) allow one person only in addition to the driver in a vehicle for shopping in the ward and two persons except for the driver to go to hospitals or clinics;

(i) abide by the standard operating procedures (SOP) for trucks to ensure smooth flow of commodities in the township;

4. People need to inform relevant ward/village administration bodies about seeking approvals to go outside the houses if they have reasons to raise the limited number of participants in the measures and other emergency issues mentioned in subparagraphs (d), (e) and (h) of Paragraph 3. The relevant administrative bodies need not allow ingoing and outgoing persons, except for officials and those returnees from duty.

5. Action will be taken against those who fail to abide by the order under the existing laws.

6. The order came into force at 4 am on 4-7-2021.

Dr Thet Khaing Win

Union Minister

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