Two Chinese Nationals Test COVID-19 Positive in Wa State
United Wa State Army soldiers mark the 30th anniversary of the army’s founding in Panghsang in 2019. / The Irrawaddy
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By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint 21 December 2020
Yangon Two Chinese nationals tested positive for COVID-19 last week in Mong Pawk in the autonomous Wa zone in Shan State, forcing around 300 residents to be isolated in quarantine centers.
The United Wa State Party (UWSP) vice-chairman Zhao Guoan said the patients would not be transported to China as there were medics in the town.
The UWSA unveiled a COVID-19 lab at its headquarters in Panghsang in early December after the Red Cross Department in Pu’er City, Yunnan Province, provided the UWSP with testing equipment using “Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction”.
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Myanmar Military Holds Meeting With Arakan Army Officials in Wa Region
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Myanmar Military Holds Meeting With Arakan Army Officials in Wa Region
Arakan Army recruits during military training in Laiza, Kachin State, in April 2019. / Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 10 December 2020
Less than a month after fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State was informally put on hold, representatives from both sides met in person in the Wa Self-Administered Zone’s capital, Panghsang, near the Chinese border in northern Shan State on Wednesday to discuss a possible bilateral ceasefire.