Today (Saturday, July 18th, 2020), our AA Medical Products Ltd., Pacific AA Foundation donated US$517,209 (764.45 million kyats) worth of two types of COVID-detecting reagents. The first type is Roche Cobas SAR-CoV-2 reagents that is used to test the coronavirus of 16,080 people at the National Health Laboratory of Myanmar.(NHL)

This donation is worth US$402,000. The second type is 50,000 of the Anti SARS-CoV-2 Elecsys reagents that are used with the Roche Cobas e 411 and Cobas e 601 analyzers, which test immunity. The donation of this antibody/serology test is worth US$125,208.64. Additionally, 26,000 tests of this antibody/serology test reagents have also been donated to the Military Hospitals who work with Myanmar Ministry of Health and Sports in combating Covid19 Pandemic.

These donations are additional to what we have donated (1.2 million pieces of face masks to Ministry of Government Offices, Ministry of Home Affairs, the Yangon regional government) and other medical devices and medicines, in this time of COVID-19. In a span of five months, we are very happy that our total donation of 1.8494 billion kyats (about USD1.321 millions) of healthcare related products (including medical devices and medicine) have been a helping hand to combat the Covid19 pandemic in Myanmar.

Because of the relentless hard work, effort, and dedication of the Ministry of Health and Sports, the spread of this virus have been well controlled, and the Covid19 related casualty is very minimal. Myanmar have been one of the very rare countries which has the single digit of Covid related dead causality (only 6 people as of today) and Myanmar is in well stable and successful status in combating against Covid19 pandemic. As a good citizen of Myanmar, we are proud, honored and grateful to be a helping hand to our Ministry of Health and Sports & various government departments in this endeavor.