COVID-19 cases increase to 315,118 in Myanmar ANI 05 Aug 2021, 05:55 GMT+10 Naypyitaw [Myanmar], August 5 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of COVID-19 cases in Myanmar has increased to 315,118 on Wednesday after 4,051 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health. A total of 322 new deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 10,695 in the country as of Wednesday, the release said. According to the ministry's release, a total of 225,849 patients have been discharged from the hospitals and over 3.20 million samples have been tested for COVID-19 so far. The Chinese Embassy to Myanmar recently donated a total of 25,000 masks, 500 face shields, a batch of disinfectants and hand sanitizers to the University of Foreign Languages and 35,000 masks, 1,000 face shields, a batch of disinfectants, and hand sanitizers to the Higher Education Department in Yangon, according to the embassy's release on Wednesday.