World News | Covid-19: Myanmar Logs 31 Cases of Omicron Sub-variant
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Myanmar confirmed its first batch of 31 cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant's BA.2 sub-lineage on Friday, the Ministry of Health said.
Yangon [Myanmar], March 18 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar confirmed its first batch of 31 cases of the COVID-19 Omicron variant's BA.2 sub-lineage on Friday, the Ministry of Health said.
The confirmed cases were found in 31 suspected cases of COVID-19 positive patients which were tested on March 15, the ministry said.
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As of Friday, the Southeast Asian country has reported 608,384 confirmed cases from the virus with 19,420 deaths.
A total of 562,905 patients have been discharged from hospitals so far and the daily positivity rate on Friday is 3.04 per cent. (ANI/Xinhua)
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