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Jan 26, 2020

ON ACCOUNT of the number of coronavirus cases and related deaths rising in neighboring China, the health authorities in border towns have beefed up surveillance at the border gate with China with the help of thermal scan equipment.

Health staff from the Muse Township Health Department are conducting surveillance by scanning travellers entering Myanmar from China from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday.

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Jan 26, 2020

No novel coronavirus patient is found in Yangon Region, although Wuhan in China is facing the outbreak of the pneumonia and the Waibagi Hospital in North Okkalapa has already prepared for real time treatments should anyone is found contacted with the virus, according to Public Health Department office of Yangon Region.

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Jan 25, 2020

CHINA Eastern airline has cancelled its flights from Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China, to Yangon and Mandalay from 24 January to 29 February in response to the coronavirus outbreak that sent the Chinese city into lockdown.
According to the World Health Organization, several cases of pneumonia first surfaced in the last week of December in 2019 but the virus did not match any other known virus.

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Jan 25, 2020

HEALTH authorities have been placed on alert due to the outbreak in Wuhan, central China of a deadly coronavirus, beefing up Pneumonia surveillance at the Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay international airports since 5th January.

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Jan 24, 2020

A coordination meeting on closing a camp of the internally displaced persons-IDPs in Kyaukpyu was held at the Rakhine State Government Office in Sittway on 21st January.


The Kyauktalon Camp will be closed in accordance with the IDP camps closure National Strategy which will ensure all displaced people at IDP camps return home safely and with dignity and rebuild their life without depending on others, said Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr Win Myat Aye in his opening remarks at the meeting.

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Jan 24, 2020

The Union Election Commission held a coordination meeting with its region and state sub-commissions yesterday at its office in Nay Pyi Taw in preparation for the 2020 General Election.


In his opening address, UEC chairman U Hla Thein said the commission is making preparations to ensure the 2020 General Election meet five standards: they are free, fair, transparent, reliable, and harmonious with the people’s desire.

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Jan 23, 2020

The Tatmadaw True News Team organized a press conference at the Defence Services Museum in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.


It was attended by Chairman of Tatmadaw True News Team Maj-Gen Soe Naing Oo, Vice Chairman Maj-Gen Tun Tun Nyi, Secretary Brig-Gen Zaw Min Tun and senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army).


Media personnel from local news agencies, daily newspapers, journals, local TV news agencies and locally-based foreign news agencies were also present at the press.

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Jan 23, 2020

THE Sports Science and Sports Medicine Conference 2020 was held at the Novotel Hotel in Yangon yesterday.

The conference was supervised by the Department of Sports and Physical Education of Ministry of Health and Sports and jointly organized by Myanmar Olympic Committee and Myanmar Women’s Sports Federation.

First, the conference was opened by playing the national anthem, followed by playing the video message delivered by Union Minister for Health and Sports Dr Myint Htwe.

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Jan 23, 2020

THE Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population and the Thales, a French multinational company, jointly organized an e-ID and e-passport workshop yesterday at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw.

Speaking at the workshop, Union Minister for Labour, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe said his ministry, after forming a working committee, is implementing an e-ID system which would collect the biometric data of people in Myanmar and add them to a database after individual data are assigned Unique Identity (UID) numbers and registered.

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Jan 23, 2020

SEMINAR on ‘Establishment of Credit Guarantee Corporation (CGC) and Financing for MSMEs’ was held in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday focusing on SMEs and MSMEs Financing in the areas of government policies, regulation and credit services for SMEs.

It was jointly organized by Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry and the Bank of Thailand in M Gallery Hotel.

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