Health care workers in the intensive care unit at the Ayeyarwady Covid Center at the Thuwanna football stadium in Yangon, amid the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. - AFP
YANGON (Xinhua): Myanmar is expected to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines on Friday, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said in a message to the public on Thursday (Jan 21).
Suu Kyi, as chairperson of the national-level Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment of Covid-19, said 1.5 million doses of vaccine will arrive in Myanmar which will be enough for 750,000 people.
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