YANGON: Naypyitaw Union Territory, which includes Myanmar's government capital Naypyitaw, on Sunday (April 19) issued an order to impose a nighttime curfew in all of its townships. The decisions follows the same one made in Yangon much earlier.
"We have planned to take further restrictions in pursuit of public health," Nay Pyi Taw Council Member Aung Myint Htun told Xinhua.
As part of measures to contain and curb spread of the Covid-19, the curfew, which will be in place in the hours between 10pm and 4am local time, covers all eight townships - Zabuthiri, Zeyathiri, Ottarathiri, Dekkhinathiri, Pobbathiri, Lewe, Tatkone and Pyinmana townships starting from Saturday. Yangon and Mandalay also imposed similar dusk-to-dawn curfews amid the fear of Covid-19 spread since Saturday.
Number of Covid-19 infection cases is more than 100 in Myanmar on Sunday and registering 96 confirmed cases with five deaths as of Saturday. - Xinhua/Asian News Network
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