COVID-19 Update: 17 new COVID-19 cases reported on February 19

The Ministry of Health has been accelerating COVID-19 prevention, control and treatment measures and procedures. The Ministry reported 17 new COVID-19 cases at 8 p.m. on Sunday after testing 2,472 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 reached 633,901 with 19,490 deaths and 614,363 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospitals.