COVID-19 Update: 683 New Cases Reported at 8 p.m. on October 21

The Ministry of Health has been accelerating COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment measures and procedures. The Ministry reported 683 new COVID-19 cases at 8 p.m. on Thursday after testing 13,805 patients within 24 hours.

21 COVID-19 positive patients have died while 1,021 patients have recovered and were discharged from hospitals. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar have reached 491,584 with 18,465 deaths and 444,740 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospitals.

The World’s worst-hit countries are the United States of America, India, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Russian Federation, Turkey, France, Iran, Argentina and Spain, according to the World Health Organization. Globally, as of 6:07pm CEST, 21 October 2021, there have been over 241 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 4.91 million deaths, reported to WHO.