Medical checkups must be conducted on those who entered from the border and those with positive results must be sent to the designated places for treatment, said Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win at the seventh coordination meeting of the COVID-19 Control and Emergency Response Committee at the SAC Chairman Office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon.
In his address, the Vice-Senior General, in his capacity as Chairman of the COVID-19 Control and Emergency Response Committee, said that infection of Arcturus XBB.1.16 subvariant of omicron virus slightly rose in Myanmar after the Maha Thingyan festival period. The infection rate of the virus hit 1.14 per cent, the highest position on 29 April, and such an infection rate dipped under one per cent on the remaining days of April. From 1 April to 1 May, a total of 903 persons were infected by the virus. This virus can be cured by the drugs being used in treatment for the previous Covid-19 virus. People need to receive vaccination as usual and prevention and control measures must continue regularly without carelessness. The Vice-Senior General stressed the need to check the readiness of test kits, oxygen supply and quarantine centres for prevention, control and treatment of Covid-19.
Union Minister for Health Dr Thet Khaing Win discussed the finding of the Covid-19 virus in regions and states within 14 days, infection of the virus in April, quarantine programmes and completion of age-wise vaccination, storage of Covid-19 vaccines, reviews on infection of the virus in Myanmar, and future plans.
Union ministers, deputy ministers and officials also participated in discussions on plans to raise public awareness about the infection of the new variant of Covid-19 virus with the assistance of relevant ministries, the readiness of factories under the Myanmar Economic Corporation for producing oxygen to meet the demand of the Ministry of Health, preparations of hospitals and quarantine centres in regions and states, protocols for the persons in arrival and departure at the border area and, arrangements for personal treatment data.
Next, the Vice-Senior General continued to say that, as Yangon Region faces the highest infection rate of the Covid-19 virus, it is necessary to systematically supervise the disinfection measures not to increase the infection rate again. Medical checkups must be conducted on those who entered from the border and those with positive results must be sent to the designated places for treatment. The Vice-Senior General called for constant checking of the prevention, control and treatment measures and requirements, and then, the Vice-Senior General coordinated the discussions of participants. — MNA/TTA
