YANGON, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19 decided on Sunday to extend the period for preventive measures against COVID-19 to Sept. 30.
The extension will be applied to all orders, announcements, directives previously issued by the respective union level government organizations and ministries in order to contain the spread of the viral disease, the announcement said.
According to the Ministry of Health, Myanmar reported 3,166 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally in the country to 392,300 on Sunday.
A total of 106 more deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 15,183 as of Sunday, the ministry said.
According to the ministry, a total of 346,408 patients have been discharged from hospitals after full recovery and over 3.53 million samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far.
Over 1.84 million people have completed two-dose COVID-19 vaccination as of Saturday.
Myanmar detected its first two positive cases of COVID-19 on March 23 last year. Enditem
