Risk Assessment Report – 25 march 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 25 march 2020
Rapid Risk Assessment
March 25, 2020
Risk Assessment Report – 25 march 2020
Time Period Covered March 25, 2020 - March 25, 2020
- WHO has delivered a new shipment of emergency medical supplies to the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of COVID-19 response measures. According to the WHO Representative, these important medicines will not only support the treatment of patients by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and its affiliated hospitals at the provincial level who are facing critical shortages, but will also help the country contribute significantly to the Solidarity Trail in an effort to find an effective treatment for the virus.
- Diagnostic testing for COVID-19 is critical to tracking the virus, understanding epidemiology, informing case management, and to suppressing transmission. WHO has updated the Laboratory Testing Strategy document according to the 4Cs transmission scenarios. Technical guidance can be found at https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance
- As Myanmar migrant workers have seen their workplaces in Thailand shut down and many more are returning home, Myanmar and Thai authorities kept the Mae Sot-Myawaddy Bridge No. 2 checkpoint open until 6PM of March 23. On March 23, around 1,840 migrant workers had returned to Myanmar across the border with Thailand in addition to 9400 who returned in the last weekend. Officials worked to ensure everyone entering Myanmar at the immigration checkpoint in Myawaddy had to pass a health screening and body temperature check.
- On March 24, Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha announced that Thailand will be placed under emergency rule for a month (starting March 26) to curb the spread of COVID-19. Starting March 26, Prayut will assume sole authority to implement future coronavirus containment policies, which under the relevant 2005 royal decree allows for authorities to ban travel, shutter and censor media and impose curfews.
- Myanmar confirmed its first COVID-19 cases: o First confirmed case: 36/M
- ▪ Myanmar national who arrived from the United States through Yangon International Airport on March 13. He travelled to a village in Tedim Township in Myanmar. On March 19, he was suffering from a high fever and was admitted at Tedim General Hospital where he tested positive for the virus. o Second confirmed case: 26/M
- ▪ Myanmar national who returned from the UK. He was quarantined last March 22 in Yangon and tested positive for coronavirus. The patient is stable and is being treated at Waibargi Hospital. o Third confirmed case: 26/M
- ▪ Today (March 25), third case was confirmed in Myanmar. The affected individual returned from the UK on March 21. The man tested positive while under quarantine at the Insein Public Hospital in Yangon.
- Laos confirmed its first COVID-19 cases: o First confirmed case: 28/M
- ▪ traveled in Thailand from March 5 to 8 to attend a seminar. He returned to Laos on March 9 via Vientiane’s Wattay International Airport. By March 23 he began to feel ill, exhibiting symptoms consistent with Covid-19, such as headaches, body aches, a sore throat and shortness of breath. He was admitted to the Mittaphab Friendship Hospital in Vientiane, where he was quarantined and tested positive for the virus. o Second confirmed case: 36/F ▪ patient began to exhibit symptoms on March 10 and was taken to the same hospital for testing. A blood test and chest x-ray was conducted but did not find anything abnormal, and so the patient returned to a hotel to rest. After symptoms worsened, the patient was again brought to the Mittaphab Friendship Hospital and tested positive for COVID-19.
Risk Assessment Report – 25 march 2020