YANGON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 infections has risen to 528,101 in Myanmar after 170 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health on Saturday.
Five more deaths were reported on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 19,213, the release said.
A total of 505,103 patients have been discharged from hospitals and over 5.88 million samples have been tested for COVID-19 as of Saturday.
Myanmar detected its first two COVID-19 positive cases on March 23 last year. Enditem
