Yangon: The number of Covid-19 cases has risen to 521,211 in Myanmar after 505 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health.
With 12 new deaths, the overall death toll in the country has increased to 19,079, the release said on Saturday.
A total of 495,408 patients had been discharged from hospitals and over 5.5 million samples had been tested for Covid-19 as of Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Myanmar detected its first two Covid-19 cases on March 23, 2020.
