Flash alert – Covid-19 Pandemic: 734 More Confirmed Cases on 26 December + most Stay at Home orders lifted 

      Friday 26 December, 2020         

             

At 20:00, the Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) reported 734 new cases in the last 24 hours, i.e. 120,172 cases since the beginning of the second wave (16 August). Details about those new cases will be released tomorrow evening.   

 

Those 734 cases were detected out of 20,143 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, i.e. a positivity rate of +3.6%. The MoHS also stated that 27 more patients had died from the disease in the last 24 hours.  

 

Since the beginning of the pandemic in Myanmar, in March 2020, 121,280 people have been contaminated by Covid-19, and 2,579 have died from it.  

 

 

 

Nation-wide Summary     

Total cases since March 

121,280 

Total confirmed cases in second wave (since 16 August)   

120,906 

Hospitalized cases           

16,538 

Fatalities           

2,579 

  

 

Tonight, MOHS also lifted the stay-at-home orders which used to be imposed in the following townships. 


States and Regions 

Townships 

(Where stay at home orders are lifted) 

Townships 

(Where stay at home order are still enforced) 

Ayeyarwaddy Region 

Pyapone & Maubin 

Pathein 

Bago Region 

Kawa & Thanatpin 

Bago 

Kachin State 

Hpakant 

Mohnyin 

Mon State 

Bilin & Mawlamyine 

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Mandalay Region 

Amarapura 

Chan Aye Tharzan & Maha Aung Myay 

Yangon Region 

40 townships out of 43 townships  

Seikgyikanaunto, Twantay & Kungyangon 

 

Questions or further request for information can be directed towards           

Martin Michalon, Head of Risk Management, at m.michalon@exera.asia.