COVID-19 Update: 14 New COVID-19 Cases Reported On May 18

The Ministry of Health has been accelerating COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment measures and procedures. The Ministry reported 14 new COVID-19 cases at 8 p.m. on Wednesday after testing 9,645 patients within 24 hours.

At the time of the report, there’s no patient who died due to the disease while 7 patients have recovered and were discharged from hospitals. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar have reached 613,182 with 19,434 deaths and 592,130 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospitals. COVID-19 vaccine is being injected to those of priority groups in regions and states for prevention and control of the disease. Up to 17th May, 2022, over 31 million people have been vaccinated.

Of them, over 24.80 million people have been vaccinated two times and over 6.36 million people once and over 1.82 million people have received booster dose. Therefore, over 57.79 million doses of COVID-19 jabs have been vaccinated, according to the press release of Ministry of Health.

The World’s worst-hit countries are the United States of America, India, Brazil, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russian Federation, Republic of Korea, Italy, Turkey, Spain and Viet Nam according to the World Health Organization. Globally, as of 7:41 pm CEST, 18th May 2022, there have been over 520 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 6.27 million deaths.