COVID-19 Update: 18 New COVID-19 Cases Reported On August 3

The Ministry of Health has been accelerating COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment measures and procedures. The Ministry reported 18 new COVID-19 cases at 8 p.m. on Wednesday after testing 5,595 patients within 24 hours.

At the time of the report, there’s no patient who died due to the disease while 5 patients have recovered. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar have reached 614,146 with 19,434 deaths and 592,927 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 6:22pm CEST, 3 August 2022, there have been over 577 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 6.4 million deaths.