Myanmar reports 574 new COVID-19 cases, 14 deaths

Myanmar recorded 574 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 14 more deaths from the coronavirus epidemic in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Health Ministry on Saturday.

The latest figures raised the Asian country's total tally of COVID-19 infections to 125,616 with 2,711 deaths.

Data showed a total of 108,660 recovered patients have been discharged from hospitals so far.

The daily virus test positivity rate has been under 5 percent for more than two weeks in Myanmar with 3.6 percent recorded on Saturday.

Over 1.84 million samples have been tested for COVID-19 since the first infection was detected in Myanmar on March 23, 2020. (/Xinhua)

( With inputs from ANI )

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