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YANGON, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar reported 96 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 143,414 on Thursday, according to a release from the Health and Sports Ministry.
The death toll stood at 3,216 while the number of recoveries rose to 132,269 so far, the release said.
A total of 1,788 samples were tested for COVID-19 on Thursday, down from around 10,000 samples tested daily in early February.
The virus was first detected in Myanmar on March 23 last year. Enditem
