Expected Rate of COVID-19 among Returning Myanmar Workers from Working in Nearby Country to their Homeland

Coronavirus disease (COVID‑19) already causes a pandemic problem in March 2020. Myanmar is one of the poor developing countries in Indochina that the disease occurs late in the timeline of the COVID‑19 pandemic. According to the local report by Myanmar center of Disease Control, the disease has just been firstly detected in the third week of March 2020. At present (April 1, 2020), there are 15 patients in Myanmar. Of these cases, two cases (13.3%) are imported cases via the land border. The patients are returning Myanmar workers from a nearby country to their homeland. These patients carried disease back and pass the international health screening at border two different border posts (one in Shan state and the other in Kayin/Mon state).