Myanmar imposes stay-at-home order in more towns due to Covid-19

Yangon, June 5 (IANS) Myanmar's Health and Sports Ministry imposed a stay-at-home order in four more towns of Chin state, state-run media reported on Friday.The stay-at-home order, which will be in effect on Saturday, will be applied to Tedim, Falam, Thantlang and Hakha after the towns recently saw increasing number of Covid-19 infections, the Xinhua news agency reported.According to the ministry's figures on Friday, the number of Covid-19 daily infections surged to 212 in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 144,157 in total.A total of 132,415 patients have been recovered while the death toll stood at 3,221 as of Friday, the figures showed.Myanmar detected its first two Covid-19 cases on March 23 last year.
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