Ngayokaung
Ngayokaung (Burmese: ငရုတ်ကောင်း, lit. 'Chili pepper', also spelt Ngayoutkaung or Ngayokekaung) is a town in southwestern Ayeyarwady Region within the Ngayokaung Subtownship, Ngapudaw Township, Pathein District, Myanmar. It is a coastal town on the Bay of Bengal near Goyingyi Island. The Ngayokaung Road connects the Mawtin-Pathein road to the town across the southern end of the Arakan Mountains. It is the primary town within Ngayokaung Subtownship, Ngapudaw Township, Pathein District. The town of Ngayokaung has an area of 0.72 square miles (1.9 km)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the town implemented strict COVID inspection gates. These gates were destroyed in December 2020- allegedly by the construction company building a hotel on nearby Goyingyi Island after tensions grew as the local government required incoming construction workers to undergo a 7-day quarantine. The first COVID-19 death in the town occurred in June 2021.
References
- ^ "The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: Ngayokaung Township Report" (PDF). Myanmar Information Management Unit. Department of Population. October 2017.
- ^ Myanmar Information Management Unit (September 2019). Ngapudaw Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya ငပုတောမြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Ngapudaw Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). MIMU. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
- ^ "ငရုတ်ကောင်းမြို့ နံ့သာပုကျေးရွာအုပ်စု ကိုဗစ်စစ်ဆေးရေးဂိတ်အားလုံး ပိတ်သိမ်း" [COVID inspection gates in Ngayokaung Town's Nantharpu Village Tract closed and seized]. DVB TV (in Burmese). 23 December 2020.
- ^ "ငရုတ်ကောင်းမြို့က အသက် ၆၄ နှစ်အရွယ် ကိုဗစ်လူနာ အဖွားအိုသေဆုံး" [Ngayokaung Town's 64-year-old COVID patient grandma passes away]. Mizzima (in Burmese). 25 June 2021.
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