Time Period Covered September 18, 2020 - September 18, 2020
Worldwide, there have been over 30.2 million cases and more than 948,000
deaths attributed to COVID-19.
According to World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director General on
September 17, more than 170 countries have joined WHO’s COVAX global
vaccine plan to help buy and distribute immunization shots for COVID-19 fairly
around the world.
Myanmar authorities are advancing to build a field hospital in the commercial
capital of Yangon to cope with a surge of coronavirus infections that doctors
fear threatens to overwhelm the country's health system. Three hospitals in
Yangon, the site of most of the cases and now under a second lockdown, have
been repurposed to treat COVID-19 patients and the government is building a
field hospital with 500 beds on a football pitch