Upon testing for COVID-19 virus on those in quarantine at the Lashio Education College, a woman aged 29 that had returned from China had been found to have been infected.

     

She is one of fellow repatriates going back to her village near Shwegu.

     

Shan State (North) COVID-19 Prevention,Control And Treatment Committee Secretary, State Health and Treatment Officer, Dr Tin Maung Nyunt said that the test was conducted on repatriates, and one woman returning 

from China was found to be positive. She will be treated at the ICU in Lashio hospital.

     

"She is in good health. She doesn't have any loss of sense of smell, or temperature or fever. She has been shifted to ICU at the Lashio hospital," said Dr Tin Maung Nyunt.

     

She is the first COVID-19 positive patient found in Lashio.

     

Of 112 repatriates returning from Myanmar- China border towns Muse and Kokant and Self Autonomous regions Laukai and Kyin Shwe Haw, and from border gates, 111 of them tested negative.

     

These 111 people with no virus were sent back to their respective places with letters stating that when they get their places they have to be in quarantine , and that at the appointed day they have to undergo a test for COVID-19.

     

Those repatriates coming back via border were previously sent back to their places by train. Now that the region is not peaceful, since 15 Oct. They have been sent by car, and till 19 Oct there have been 17400 who have returned to their homes  under the supervision of the Shan State (North) Committee for the Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19.