1,047 returnees keep in quarantine in Meiktila

A total of 1,047 people returned from Yangon Region and Chin State and China, India, Malaysia and Thailand are kept in quarantine at 346 schools and religious buildings in Meiktila district, according to the district general administrative office.

“They are come back to Meiktala, Tharzi, Mahlaing and Wuntwin townships in the district from local and overseas. The number of people in the quarantine centers is changing all the time as some of them had finished their quarantine time. They are in good health. Department of Public Health is checking their health daily. Authorities and donors arranged for their food. The school will be reopened soon and we have to move the people kept in quarantine at schools. We are finding places to keep them as they have to move from the schools on June 15. We planned to keep them at monasteries and religious buildings. We also planned to use University of Computer in Meiktila to keep them. We are also looking for sports stadiums in Meiktila,” said an official from the department.

World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020 and Myanmar found its first confirmed COVID-19 patient on March 23. Ministry of Health and Sports warned people to keep the distance from three feet to six feet between them, wear masks outside, not to stay in group and to wash hands using soap for about 20 seconds to protect from the COVID-19 virus.