Yangon: Myanmar authorities imposed visited steps in the second city in the country on Friday as the Coronavirus case in a surge in the country of coup, with many striking health workers to protest the junta.
Mandalay residents, and two cities in the South Bago area, awakened with new restrictions that prohibit more than one person leave home for non-medical reasons.
There is no period of time given for new rules, announced by the Ministry of Health and the Sports of the State Administration Board as a Junta calling itself.
Those who traveled to government work were released.
The affected area is home to more than two million people, according to the 2014 census, and joins cities in the western chin country near the Indian border which has been locked since May.
The authorities reported more than 1,500 new cases on Thursday, up from around 100 per day in early June.
Myanmar’s health care system has struggled to respond to Covid-19 even before the February coup which overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi.
Patres in the country was placed under the locking part of the year ago, although enforcement was often loose in developing countries where many faced clear choices between the following rules and feeding their families.
Since the coup, thousands of doctors, volunteers and civil servants have joined the mass civil library campaign to protest the military regime.
Myanmar has reported 3,347 deaths related to viruses, although figures actually tend to be higher.
Shipping 1.5 million vaccines arrived from India earlier this year.
On Thursday Media State reported Leader Junta Min Aung Hlaing agreed to buy two million vaccines from Russia, without determining which shots.
A spokesman from the Ministry of Health said last week that the authorities also negotiated with China to buy more vaccines.
Myanmar has been in chaos since February Putsch, with more than 880 civilians killed in hard action and almost 6,500 were arrested, according to a local monitoring group.