Mandalay – All 59 Myanmar students from Wuhan quarantined in Kantawnadi Hospital in Mandalay are still in good health, said Dr Ye Lwin, Mayor of Mandalay.

“They are in good health and we are still monitoring their situation till 14 days,” said Dr Ye Lwin, who is also a chairman of the Surveillance and Response Team (SRT).

A total of 59 out of 63 Myanmar students from Wuhan arrived back in Mandalay on February 2 and four remained in Wuhan as their body temperatures are high.

“All students are not infected and they stayed in hostels of universities in Wuhan. They have not been ill since 14 days ago. If one of them got ill, we will move him or her to the isolation ward in Mandalay general hospital. We are following the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Mandalay residents need not to be worried too much,” wrote Dr Ye Lwin in his Facebook page.

The authorities are using disposable plates to feed the students and provided SIM cards to the students to communicate with their families. Myanmar Net provided free access to their Wi-Fi. Cleaning staff with PPE uniforms removed wastes and carried the wastes to garbage trucks reserved for them, according to his post on Facebook.

All 63 Myanmar students in Wuhan were trapped after the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak.