YANGON– Myanmar reported 350 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 521,561 yesterday, according to a release from the Ministry of Health.

With nine more deaths, the death toll reached 19,088 yesterday, the release said.

The number of recoveries increased to 496,081 and over 5.54 million samples have been tested for COVID-19, so far.

As of Saturday, over 11.6 million people have been fully vaccinated, the ministry’s data showed.

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

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK