Myanmar found 799 new COVID-19 confirmed cases on October 28 bringing total number of patients to 497,700, according to an announcement from Ministry of Health (MOH).

A total of 18,884 samples are tested between 8 pm of October 27 and 8 pm of October 28 and found 799 patients. 19 more people died from the virus bringing total number of death tolls to 18,622, according to a report from the MOH.

A total of 4,810,731 samples are tested till October 28 and 1,466 people are allowed to be discharged from the hospital bringing total number to 463,349, it said.