YANGON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- One more COVID-19 patient was pronounced dead, bringing the death toll to 15 in total so far, according to a release from the Health and Sports Ministry on Saturday.
A 32-year-old female who recently tested for COVID-19 died of acute respiratory failure due to severe pneumonia and kidney failure due to the underlying Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease on Friday evening, the release said.
Meanwhile, 23 new positive cases of COVID-19 were reported on Saturday morning and the number of COVID-19 infections has risen to 2,445 so far.
Regionally, Yangon region accounts for over 50 percent of the total infections with 1,394 cases while Kayah state is seeing no infection case as of Saturday morning.
COVID-19 was first detected in Myanmar on March 23. Enditem
