Myanmar drops Thingyan festival due to Covid-19

In Myanmar (Burma), the traditional water festival of Thingyan that coincides with its New Year celebrations has been cancelled by the government in the wake of Covid-19.

Like Songkran in Thailand, Myanmar’s New Year celebration of Thingyan is the nation’s greatest open festival ordinarily running for seven days across the country with festivity and water bottles, with doused revelers celebrating late into the night. This year, in a reverberation of dropped festivals elsewhere on the planet, the nation’s business center point Yangon is secured with occupants restricted inside due to the coronavirus.

Myanmar will ring in another year one week from now. Be that as it may, festivities will be quieted in view of the coronavirus pandemic. Celebrations have been dropped and individuals are being asked to remain at home.

Be that as it may, it has not prevented a few laborers from attempting to leave the urban areas and head to their homes. Nourishment conveyance bikes and rickshaws have held the city’s typically traffic-stifled boulevards after the legislature requested individuals to remain at home except if for fundamental nourishment and social insurance needs.

This year, the quiet is broken distinctly by the cawing of crows and cooing of pigeons, and the engine of an intermittent taxi looking for customers. Thingyan’s is in the core of each Myanmar individual.

Yesterday, Myanmar government had only 38 affirmed cases – including three dead yet many dread the low number of tests mean the genuine figures are likely commonly higher.

The new patients, seven are from Yangon six from Insein Township and one from Hlegu Township and one each from Pyay Township in Bago Region, Taunggyi in Shan State and Tedim Township in Chin State.

None of the new patients has a history of travel to a foreign country during the past 14 days. Among the cases detected late Saturday was a 26-year-old man who had just spent 14 days in a government-designated quarantine center after returning from the UK on March 28. The MOHS informed him of his positive test result as he was on his way home to Taunggyi after his quarantine period ended on Saturday.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked that all residents wanting to come back from Thailand hold up until the end of April. The administration likewise reported it was expanding its request restricting worldwide business flights from arriving in Myanmar until April 30. In late March, Myanmar‘s Department of Civil Aviation restricted all scheduled passenger flights from arriving until April 13 because of an ascent in the number of COVID-19 cases.
During Thingyan the younger generation of Myanmar’s population will wash the hair of the elders as a sign of gratitude and respect due to deadly virus fears this festival no one can celebrate.