Myanmar govt forms committee to coordinate with ethnic armed groups in Covid-19 fight

This filepic shows children playing in Karmawlawyi village in Myanmar's Sagaing region, near the border with India. The Myanmar government has formed a coordination and cooperation committee to work with ethnic armed groups in the fight against Covid-19 (cornavirus), said an order issued by the President's Office on Tuesday (April 27). - AFP

YANGON: The Myanmar government has formed a coordination and cooperation committee to work with ethnic armed groups in the fight against Covid-19 (cornavirus), said an order issued by the President's Office on Tuesday (April 27).

The presidential order stressed that the government has been making strenuous efforts to adopt measures of prevention, control and treatment of Covid-19 without any discrimination on racial and religious grounds, based on a "No one left behind policy".