20 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 August 27.
Myanmar National Airline (MNA) and Myanmar Airway International (MAI) will fly the relief flights to New Delhi, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Dubai for Myanmar citizens to bring back home.
A special MAI flight carrying 25 volunteers who will be assisting in COVID-19 measures for a month in Rakhine State departed from Yangon International Airport for Sittway yesterday.
The third batch of volunteers, including doctors and nurses, travelling to Rakhine State of their own will to assist in the preventing, containment and treatment measures of COVID-19 arrived in Sittway by an MAI flight yesterday evening.
The Southeast Asia National Human Rights Institutions Forum (SEANF) convened its second meeting from 25 August to 27 August through video conferencing.
