COVID-19 Update: 515 new cases reported on October 18

The Ministry of Health has been accelerating COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment measures and procedures. The Ministry reported 515 new COVID-19 cases at 8 p.m. on Tuesday after testing 13,638 patients within 24 hours.

At the time of the report, there’s one patient who died due to the disease while 260 patients have recovered. Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Myanmar have reached 629,376 with 19,471 deaths and 603,014 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospitals.

The World’s worst-hit countries are the United States of America, India, France, Brazil, Germany, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan and Russian Federation, according to the World Health Organization. Globally, as of 7:45 pm CEST, 18 October 2022, there have been over 622 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, including over 6.54 million deaths.