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Don’t go outside of Yangon unnecessarily

17/09/20

With regard to travelling, as soon as positive cases were reported in Rakhine State and many cases were found in Sittway, travel restriction from this state to other areas was imposed.

Elderly people in Mongyu receive social pension

Local

16/09/20

Staff from the township Department of Social Welfare, members of the township Women’s Affairs Association and Maternal and Child Welfare Association provided social pension to elderly people above 85 years old in ward and villages in Mongyu Township, Tachilek District, Shan State(East) this morning on a door to door basis.

Drugs seized in some townships

Crime

16/09/20

Police members from Kachin Police Force searched a motorbike driven by Ma Thein Shwe on Tanaing-Maingkhu Road in Suatngaing Ward in the town of Tanaing on 15 September and seized heroin weighing 0.495 kilo and 17100 stimulant tablets.

Thailand deports Myanmar migrant workers to Myawaddy

Local

16/09/20

A total of 207 Myanmar migrant workers including 157 men and 50 women were handed over by the Thai authorities to their Myanmar counterpart at No. 2 Myanmar-Thai Friendship Bridge in Myawaddy on 16 September.

COVID-19 emergency requirement items handed over to Shan State Government

Local

16/09/20

A ceremony to provide COVID-19 emergency requirement items to Shan State was held at the meeting room of the office of United Nation Development Program (UNDP) in Mingalar Oo Ward in Taunggyi, Shan State this afternoon.

65 Myanmar seafarers placed under hotel quarantine in Kawthoung

Local

16/09/20

65 Myanmar seafarers from a ship docked at a jetty in the Andaman Sea near Kawthoung Township, Taninthayi Region were placed under 21-day hotel quarantine on September 15.

DRD officials inspect newly-built rural road in Bamouk Twsp

Local

16/09/20

Officials from the Department of Rural Development made a field trip to Naunglone Village, Bamouk Township in Sagaing Region to inspect a rural road on 15 September.