Mar 25, 2020
The Embassy of Republic of Korea handed over Covid-19 protective gear to Myanmar yesterday morning. Ambassador of ROK Mr Lee Sang-hwa explained the assistance, and presented the protective gear to Director General Dr Zaw Than Tun from the Department the of Medical Research. The ambassador acknowledged the bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
Mar 25, 2020
DIRECTOR-General U Zaw Htay, the spokesperson of the Ministry of the Office of the State Counsellor, yesterday denied the false news on a social network page about 33 Covid-19 cases in Myanmar.
Mar 25, 2020
Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement held a coordination meeting yesterday on drafting a project plan for prevention, control and treatment of the Coronavirus infection at the internally displaced persons-IDP camps.
Mar 25, 2020
Under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) by the Japanese government, the embassy of Japan signed an agreement yesterday to fund about US$ 480,000 to upgrading the Maungtaw Hospital and providing medical equipment to it.
The signing ceremony was held at the Japanese embassy in Yangon yesterday, and the grant assistance was signed by Japanese Ambassador Mr Maruyama and Chairman of the Maungtaw People’s Hospital Construction Supervising Committee U Hla Min.
Mar 25, 2020
Myanmar’s exports of rice, broken rice and sugar to China have recovered 75 per cent at Muse border, said Vice-Chair U Min Thein of Muse Rice Depot.
A cross-border trade channel through the Muse checkpoint has come to a near halt in early February in the light of Covid-19 concerns. Now, 75 per cent of trade has resumed, he continued.
“Seventy-five per cent of rice and sugar exports has begun again. Watermelon and muskmelon exports have also returned to a normal condition”, added U Min Thein.
Mar 24, 2020
EXCELLENT Fortune Foundation donated protective equipment regarding COVID-19 to the Yangon Region government yesterday.
The donation included 200 personal protective equipment (PPE) suits, 800 single-use rubber gloves, 67 goggles, 2,400 face masks and 240 N95 masks.
Yangon Region Minister for Social Affairs U Naing Ngan Linn said they have prepared spaces for placing quarantined people and stocked up on medicine and necessary equipment and prepared food for quarantined persons in Waibargi Hospital.
Mar 24, 2020
YUNNAN Province donated 60,000 masks to Myanmar to be used in preventing the Coronavirus infection.
The donation ceremony was held at the Consul General Office in Kunming, Yunnan Province of China, in the presence of the Deputy Director-General of the Yunnan Province Government’s foreign affairs office Mr Hao Kun and Myanmar Consul General U Tun Aung Kyaw.
At the ceremony, Mr Hao Kun handed over the masks to the U Tun Aung Kyaw.
Mar 24, 2020
“THIS system has been in use in other parts of the world for a long time, but this is for the first time to use the technology in Myanmar. Smart car parking system aims at preventing unnecessary delays in the parking of the vehicles and reducing the congestion of roads,” said Managing Director U Soe Zaw Min Htet of Team-2 Myanmar Gateway Engineering Consultancy.
Mar 24, 2020
UNION Minister for Information Dr Pe Myint met with the chairpersons, vice-chairpersons and secretaries of the National Literary Award Selection Committee and Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award Selection Committee at MRTV meeting hall on Pyay Road, Yangon, yesterday morning.
Mar 23, 2020
THE Dhammaduta Jetavana Monastery in Hmawbi Township, Yangon, has allowed its facilities to be used as a quarantine site.
Dhammaduta Dr Ashin Cekinda, the presiding monk of the monastery, offered his meditation retreat to accommodate Myanmar citizens who will return from foreign countries and territories with the outbreak of Covid-19 and those who have no symptoms despite their close contact with the infected patients.