Travellers to Kyaukphyu must furnish document showing home address or face quarantine 

By DMG 09 Jul 2021

DMG Newsroom
9 July 2021, Kyaukphyu 

Travellers to Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, will soon be required to present a document that indicates their home address, issued by their respective ward or village administrator, and those who are unable to furnish the document will have to quarantine for 11 days, the Kyaukphyu District Administration Council says. 

Travellers will have to show the document from July 11, and those who do not have it will be placed under quarantine, according to Ko Hla Myo Kyaw, a member of the Kyaukphyu Township Covid-19 Prevention and Control Committee. 

“Every traveller to Kyaukphyu needs to show the document. If they cannot show it, we will place them under quarantine for 11 days and conduct a swab test two times,” he told DMG. 

Ko Tun Kyi, a resident of Kyaukphyu, suggested that authorities need to promulgate Covid-19 regulations systematically and effectively because the disease is spreading rapidly during the pandemic’s ongoing third wave. 

“I welcome the regulation to show the document giving one’s address. The infection rate is more rapid than the previous two waves. So, checking should be made effectively at the entrance and exit of the town,” he said. 

Kyaukphyu Township has so far recorded 22 coronavirus cases during the third wave, which began in May. The township is host to the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zones and deep-sea port, which brings foreign people and ships to the area, and last year prompted protests from some who viewed the traffic as a Covid-19 risk.  

Out of a total of 667 Covid-19 cases recorded in Arakan State as of July 8, seven deaths have been attributed to the virus and 108 patients were discharged from hospitals, according to the state’s Public Health Department.