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BPI factory doubles sanitizer, ethanol production
30/03/20
BPI Pharmaceutical Factory (Insein) in Yangon is doubling production of hand sanitizers and ethanol to meet market demand amid COVID-19. Factory Manager Dr Khin Pyone Lwin said ethanol can be purchased freely in the pharmacy in front of the factory but hand sanitizers will be limited to one bottle per person, all at the factory imposed price with no increase.
Fire drill held in Namhkam Tsp.
29/03/20
A fire drill was conducted at the compound of the office of the Township Fire Services Department in Namhkam, Shan State(North) yesterday.
Central Level Meeting on Containment and Prevention of COVID-19 held in Nay Pyi Taw
29/03/20
UNION Minister for Health and Sports Dr Myint Htwe attended the Central Level Meeting on Containment and Prevention of COVID-19 at 9 am yesterday at the Ministry of Health and Sports in Nay Pyi Taw and held a video conferencing with heads of region/state offices of Public Health Department and medical superintendents in the afternoon.
Mental health and psychological resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
29/03/20
By Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe
AS THE coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sweeps across the world, it is causing widespread concern, fear and stress, all of which are natural and normal reactions to the changing and uncertain situation that everyone finds themselves in.
The summer, the Latpan flowers and folk culture on brink of extinction
29/03/20
Red-silk cotton trees (Salmalia malabrica) and Myanmar’s folk culture are inseparable, as the dried flowers of the red-silk cotton trees are cooked with beef, which has been the traditional cuisine of Myanmar since the time of kings.
