The porous Myanmar-China border stretches more than 1,400 miles but coronavirus cases have only been reported on one side. In China, more than 80,800 people have been infected, but according to
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader, the country has not yet seen a single confirmed case. “Until now,
no one in our country is infected with Covid-19,” said the country’s civilian leader,
Aung San Suu Kyi, in a televised address on Monday.
To the country’s west, 114 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in India and five in
Bangladesh. Myanmar’s southern neighbour, Thailand, has reported 114 cases.