Expected Rate of COVID-19 among Returning Myanmar Workers from Working in Nearby Country to their Homeland

Won Sriwijitalai, Uno Tan Tan, Viroj Wiwanitkit

Abstract


Dear Editor,
Coronavirus disease (COVID‑19) already causes a pandemic problem in March 2020. Myanmar is one of the poor developing countries in Indochina that the disease occurs late in the timeline of the COVID‑19 pandemic. According
to the local report by Myanmar center of Disease Control, the disease has just been firstly detected in the third week of March 2020. At present (April 1, 2020), there are 15 patients in Myanmar.

Keywords


COVID-19; work; Myanmar

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