THE Office of the President has issued Press Release No 9/2020 yesterday, publicly announcing the Ministry of Home Affairs’ arrests and seizures in the fight against illicit drug trafficking up till 29 February.

The ministry made the arrests, acting on information, sent to the Drug Activity Special Complaint Department of the Office of the President as of 29 February.

The full text of the press release will be reported in the 5 March issue of The Global New Light of Myanmar.

 GNLM

Ref:The Global New Light of Myanmar

From (4-1-2020) to (2-3-2020)
(2-3-2020), 8: 15 pm

1. Situation update worldwide
(World Health Organization’s statement issued at 1:30 am (MMT) on 1-3-2020)
Total affected countries - 58
Total cases - 87,137
Total death toll - 2,977
* The WHO has announced outbreak of disease has occurred in many countries in both imported cases and local transmission.
* 20 Countries, territories or areas outside China with reported cases

1. The Ministry of Health and Sports is closely monitoring the COVID-19 outbreak and spread Than Associate to sign MoU in China and 59 countries around the world, in cooperation with the international Health Ministries and the WHO, and sharing real-time updated information among these organizations.

1. The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) was reconstituted with 11 Commission Members, including the Chairman, under Order No. 3/2020 of the Office of the President, on 14 January 2020.

Updates at 8 pm 24 February 2020

1. The Ministry of Health and Sports is closing monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19, with conducting surveillance at international gateways and at the hospitals in the forms of people-centered investigation and in coordination with private hospital.

2. From 8 pm 23 February 2020 to 8 pm 24 February 2020, no new case was confirmed for the situation of under investigation.

1. The Ministry of Health and Sports has been conducting surveillance activities on the COVID-19 acute respiratory disease, which has spread through-out China and some countries around the world, at international entry-exit checkpoints, hospital-based, community-based and in cooperation with private hospitals.

2. There have been no new patients for sur- veillance of the COVID-19 disease as of 8 p.m. from 20-2-2020 to 8 p.m of 21-2-2020.

Information about pneumonia caused by 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), first identified in Wuhan City of People’s Republic of China
26 January 2020

The Department of Public Health under the Ministry of Health and Sports is taking priority over monitoring and responding to communicable diseases, especially the recent outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) which was first identified in Wuhan City of Peoples Republic of China, advising people in Myanmar to take up the following suggestions.