COVID-19 Update: 16 New COVID-19 Cases Reported On July 20

The Ministry of Health has been accelerating COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment measures and procedures. The Ministry reported 16 new COVID-19 cases at 8 p.m. on Wednesday after testing 5,102 patients within 24 hours.

At the time of the report, there’s no patient who died due to the disease while 12 patients have recovered. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar have reached 613,871 with 19,434 deaths and 592,766 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospitals.

The World’s worst-hit countries are the United States of America, India, Brazil, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Russian Federation and Turkey, according to the World Health Organization. Globally, as of 6:17pm CEST, 20 July 2022, there have been over 562 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 6.36 million deaths.