Both patients had recently returned from abroad. FMTNews Covid19Myanmar
A health worker takes the temperatures of young Buddhist nuns at a market in Yangon. )
With only 214 people tested by late Monday, medical experts and rights groups have urged Myanmar to stand up and face the pending crisis. The Myanmar government had claimed the country’s “lifestyle and diet” – including the lack of physical contact and the use of cash, rather than credit cards – offered protection to the nation.Phil Robertson from Human Rights Watch last week branded the government’s attitude as “irresponsible”, saying it served only to give people a false sense of security.
On Monday thousands of Myanmar migrant workers flooded back over the border from Thailand before the planned closure of land border points. One doctor in provincial town Pathein, even took to Facebook to plea for resources, saying his hospital had just seven beds in the isolation ward and only one ventilator and were “no way” ready for the virus.
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