YANGON, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar on Friday reported 2,187 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 as well as 75 more deaths from the coronavirus epidemic in the past 24 hours.
The health ministry said the new cases brought the total number of COVID-19 infections in the Asian country to 442,928, including 16,944 deaths.
An additional 2,191 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals on Friday, bringing the total number of recoveries from the pandemic in Myanmar to 393,459.
COVID-19 infection was first detected in Myanmar on March 23 last year. Enditem