Myanmar reports 357 new COVID-19 infections, 7 more deaths

YANGON, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — Myanmar reported 357 new COVID-19 cases with seven more deaths in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health on Saturday.

The number of total COVID-19 cases in the country had risen to 526,381 while the death toll had increased to 19,177 on Saturday, the release said.

A total of 502,666 patients have been discharged from hospitals and over 5.78 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.

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