Myanmar found two more people returned from India via a relief flight on January 13, according to Ministry of Health and Sports (MOHS).

Myanmar found 523 confirmed patients on January 13 and a total of 17,827 samples are tested between 8 pm of January 12 and 8 pm of January 13. One each from Kyauktada and Mingala Taungnyunt townships and they are kept in quarantine.

All staff from the relief flight are tested and their results showed negative, said Dr Khin Khin Gyi, Director of Central Epidemiology Unit, under the MOHS.

A total of 85 people: 66 from Jordan and India, one from Malaysia, two from South Korea nine from Jordan and two from India, returned with relief flights till January 12 are found infected with the virus and most of them Jordan returnees, according to the MOHS.

The outbreak of a new variant of COVID-19: B 1. 1. 7 is spreading in countries and people need to follow the guidelines for COVID-19 protection, said Dr Tun Myint, Head of Public Health and Treatment Department.

“We are reaching into a stage in which we can control the second wave. As everyone knows the number of positive case is declined. The new variant of COVID-19 is found in United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Europe. It is also found in Japan. Japan had a record breaking of over 1,300 positive cases within a day on December 25,” he said.

A new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus is spreading very quickly in Britain since September and more than 1,400 people are infected. Although the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 has many genetic mutations all the time, the new variant of the virus can change genetic mutations very quickly, according to international media.