YANGON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar registered 43 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the tally to 613,940, according to the Ministry of Health on Saturday.
The ministry said health authorities tested 5,461 people for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, and the daily positivity rate was 0.79 percent.
According to the ministry's figures, the death toll from COVID-19 remained unchanged at 19,434 as no new deaths were confirmed in the past 24 hours.
As of Saturday, the total number of patients who recovered from COVID-19 in the country has reached 592,789 after 12 new recoveries were reported in the past 24 hours, official data showed.
The Southeast Asian country detected its first COVID-19 cases in March 2020. ■