YANGON: People in Myanmar's Yangon region are asked to stay at home during the holidays of the traditional Thingyan Water Festival from April 10-19, a regional government official told Xinhua on Saturday (April 4).
"We take this measure so as to curb the spread of the Covid-19 ," Karen Ethnic Affairs Minister Naw Pan Thinzar Myo of Yangon Region said.
The measures will be effective to all people in the region, excluding those working for prevention and control of the disease, and treatment of the patients, among others.
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