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A new letter from researchers at New York University shows that obesity is a risk factor for COVID-19 hospitalization in patients under the age of 60. The letter was published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases. In other research news, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlight geographic COVID-19 differences, and Johns Hopkins experts lay out the upcoming need for personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers. For the obesity study, researchers looked at 3,615 patients admitted to their hospital from Mar 4 to Apr 4. The authors analyzed the body mass index (BMI) of the patients with confirmed COVID-19. A person with a...

### Unicode Version ### (CNN သတင်းဌာန၏ ကျန်းမာရေးဆိုင်ရာ အကြီးတန်းသတင်းထောက် Elizabeth Cohen ရေးသားသည့် Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing ဆောင်းပါးကို ဘာသာပြန်သည်။) သုတေသန တွေ့ရှိချက်များအရ ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ်သည် နှာချေခြင်း (သို့မဟုတ်) ချောင်းဆိုးခြင်းများမှသာလျှင်...

President Joko Widodo has been steadfast in his refusal to implement a nationwide or provincial lockdown despite loud calls from experts in the country, having ordered yesterday the implementation of “large-scale social restriction” and, potentially, civil emergency policies to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The Jakarta Provincial Government had reportedly requested that the province be placed under regional quarantine — akin to a provincial lockdown — given that the capital is the epicenter of COVID-19 outbreak in the country. The central government, which has the final say on all lockdown decisions, refused the request. Fadjroel Rachman, a presidential...

The outbreak began in Wuhan, China - a city with a population of over 11 million. The virus is believed to have originated from a "wet market" where animals such as bats, snakes, rabbit and birds are illegally sold. Humans as well as animals - both living and dead - are put together in close contact in wet markets in often unhygienic conditions. As the coronavirus is known to be transferred from animals to humans, it is believed market stallholders, who came into contact with animals were the first people infected with the strain. A 61-year-old frequent shopper at the wet market was the first person to die from the virus. Shortly after the spread of the disease, officials in...

### Unicode Version ### မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ အထပ်မြင့်များတွင် ထည့်သွင်းထားသည့် အရေးပေါ်လှေကားများ ထွက်ပေါက်နှင့် အကိုက်ညီဆုံးနေရာတွင် တည်ဆောက်သင့်ကြောင်း မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအင်ဂျင်နီယာများအသင်းမှ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌဦးအောင်မြင့်ကပြောသည်။ " အရေးပေါ်လှေကားဆိုရင် ဒီမှာက...

Yangon Mayor U Maung Maung Soe said that illegal residents are being removed as people are not allowed to live in hazardous buildings in Yangon. "People are secretly living in those buildings. We ordered them to be removed as soon as possible. This is not in accordance with the law,” said the mayor. Most of the dangerous buildings are located in downtown Yangon area, especially the old buildings built in the 1960s. In addition, the strength of the buildings, which were built in the late colonial era as well as those built in early 1988 are under investigation, according to reports. Written by iMyanmarHouse.com Team Credit: iMyanmarHouse.com

Rising sea levels prompted by climate change will endanger 300 million people around the world by 2050, at least three times more than what was previously forecasted. According to CNN, the findings published in the journal Nature Communications underlined Asians as the most vulnerable communities.Using advancements in elevation modelling technology, the researchers calculated high tides to rise between 0.6 to 2.1 metres or more within the next century.By 2050, cities occupied by 300 million people could experience drastic floods at least once a year, as these areas drop below the average annual coastal flood line. By 2100, cities home to 200 people could be considered unlivable, as these...

 A mild magnitude 4.1 earthquake jolted the country’s commercial city Yangon that has damaged some of the buildings. The earthquake’s epicentre was 13 kilometres from Yangon Region’s Taikkyi Township at a depth of about 10 kilometres. The quake did minimal damage, but the tops of three small stupas at Myanmar’s iconic Shwedagon Pagoda fell down. The quake had caused a high-rise building in Tarmwe Nat Chaung ward's Arthawka street, a building in Myittarnyunt ward's Shwe Wah street, a building at the corner of the Arthawka street and the Satipahtan street in Hmahlwakone Htaykywe (D) ward to lean. It had also caused a RC 4-storey building to lean slightly to the...

### Zawgyi Version ### ဒီႏွစ္ထဲမွာ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံမွာ သူမ်ားအိမ္အေပၚထပ္မွာ ၆ လေလာက္ ခိုးဝင္ေနထိုင္ခဲ့သူတစ္ေယာက္ကို ရဲေတြဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ရဖူးပါတယ္။ အိမ္ပိုင္ရွင္ အသက္ ၉၀ အရြယ္အမ်ိဳးသမီးဟာ ဒီလူအေပၚထပ္မွာေနေနေၾကာင္းလုံးဝမသိခဲ့ပါဘူး။ ဒီလူဟာ သူ႕ရဲ့ဖိနပ္ကိုေတာင္...

### Zawgyi Version ### ကန္ထရိုက္ေခတ္ဦး အေဆာက္အအံုအမ်ားဆံုးရွိသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ တာေမြ ၊ စမ္းေခ်ာင္း ၊ ၾကည့္ျမင္တိုင္ျမိဳ႕နယ္ တို႔ရွိ အေဆာက္အအံုမ်ား ႀကံ့ခိုင္မႈ အႏၱရာယ္ရွိ မရွိ စစ္ေဆးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္သာယာေရးေကာ္မတီ (YCDC) အင္ဂ်င္နီယာဌာန...