Tag: COVID-19
Villagers Fleeing Shan State Fighting Fearful Of COVID-19
Villagers who have fled fighting between rival ethnic Shan ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) are afraid of contracting COVID-19 because infection rates are high in...
COVID-19 Cluster Detected In Cement Factory In Southern Shan State
Fifty-seven tested positive in Panglaung Township last Wednesday, with almost half of the infections recorded in a 24 hour period arising from a outbreak...
Rakhine State Police Transferred To Shan State Infected With COVID-19
A police officer from Rakhine State and three members of his immediate family tested positive after arriving in Namhsan town, northern Shan State. The police...
Taunggyi Hospital Nears Capacity During COVID-19 Outbreak
Health professionals in Taunggyi struggle to make room for incoming patients infected with COVID-19 as the outbreak spreads in the town in eastern Shan...
COVID-19 THIRD WAVE SURGING: R2P emergency humanitarian health intervention possible?
When the people of Burma or Myanmar have already given up hope for Responsibility to Protect (R2P) humanitarian intervention by the UN and international...
Hospitals in Northern Shan State Tell COVID-19 Patients To Stay Home
Hospitals in northern Shan State are turning people away who are infected with COVID-19 because there are no longer any beds left. According to a...
Authorities Set Up COVID-19 Checkpoints During Lashio Outbreak
Health officials detected 49 new COVID-19 cases in northern Shan State, prompting fears the virus is spreading at a time when health care in...
Medical Staff Struggle To Keep Up With COVID-19 Outbreak
Taunggyi Township will soon not have enough medical staff to treat and test for COVID-19 if the outbreak continues in southern Shan State. The...
Six Cases of COVID-19 Reported in Tachileik
By Hseng Leng /SHAN Six cases of COVID-19, including two people who returned to Burma illegally from Thailand, were reported in Tachileik on December 10. After...
Rising Cases Prompts Authorities to Reduce Tachileik Market Hours
By Hseng Leng/SHAN Responding to an uptick in transmissions in Tachileik, health authorities ordered markets and grocery stores to close after 10 a.m. daily. All...
