YANGON – The number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar rose to 506,816 yesterday, after 818 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health.

The release said, 17 new deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 18,821 in the country, as of yesterday.

A total of 478,233 patients have been discharged from hospitals and over five million samples have been tested for COVID-19, so far.

Over 8.24 million people have been fully vaccinated nationwide, while over 5.65 million people have received the first jabs of COVID-19 vaccines, as of Saturday, the release said.

Myanmar detected its first two COVID-19 cases on Mar 23, last year.

Source: NAM News Network