Myanmar resumes corona vaccination in coup

In Myanmar, medical staff are being vaccinated against a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). © AFP=News1

China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on the 5th that the Myanmar government has resumed vaccination against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) despite the recent military coup.

Myanmar received 1.5 million doses of India’s AstraZeneca vaccine’Kobi Shield’ and started vaccinating it on the 27th of last month.

According to the news agency, the Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar announced that it had inoculated 10,3142 frontline medical staff and volunteers from the 27th of last month to the present.

The Ministry of Health and Sports of Myanmar has ordered an additional 30 million servings of Kobe Shield.

Earlier, the Myanmar military government conducted a coup on the 1st of last year, raising suspicions of illegal elections in last year’s general election. The military then announced that it would hold a new general election after detaining senior government officials, including state advisor Aung San Suu Kyi, and declaring a one-year emergency.

As of the previous day, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Myanmar was 141,104 and 3,163 deaths.

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