Buds of nipa palm grown along the coast of Arakan State are dried and produced as an herbal tea that some purveyors say has numerous health benefits.

Six cases of Covid-19 were reported in Sittwe, Taungup and Maungdaw townships on June 23, according to the Arakan State Department of Public Health. 

The Shwe Karuna Foundation, which provides free medical treatment to cataract and kidney patients in Arakan State, is facing financial difficulties, according to foundation officials.

Some children from camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State are suffering from skin rashes, redness and dengue fever, as well as nausea, fevers, and diarrhoea, according to civil society groups and IDP camp officials.

A woman from an area 4 miles from Maungdaw town tested positive for Covid-19 on June 24, according to the Maungdaw District Hospital.  

Some wards in Ramree town have been inundated by up to two feet of water after days of steady rains in Arakan State, residents said. 

Arakanese civil society organisations have urged authorities to close border trade gates as the number of Covid-19 cases in Arakan State is increasing. 

The Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) said Thursday that it was not its fault that a man was shot dead in Sittwe recently. 

The Sanyin camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Myebon Township, which was damaged by recent strong winds and heavy rain, is being rebuilt with the help of local and foreign donors, according to a camp official. 

The Daung Chaung village-tract administrator’s office in Gwa Township, Arakan State, was set on fire earlier this week, according to a clerk from the office.

Home goods and an array of other items made of coconut shells are products in search of new markets, the makers in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township have lamented.  

Basic education schools in Paletwa Township, Chin State, reopened on June 23 after being temporarily closed due to local COVID-19 infection rates, according to the township education office. 

The deputy commissioner of the Maungdaw District General Administration Department and one of his staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, and five staff members who came in contact with them were quarantined on June 23.

Two of six prisoners who were being transferred from Taungup Township to Thandwe Prison in Arakan State have tested positive for COVID-19, Thandwe Hospital Superintendent Dr. Ye Win Tun told DMG. 

Donors are still needed for more than 1,300 students studying at the Palay (Pearl) Yadana monastic education school in Thandwe Township, Arakan State. 

A 49-year-old woman from Nga Pyaw Chaung village in Kyauktaw Township was injured when she stepped on a landmine while heading to the jungle to harvest bamboo shoots.

Officials from the Arakan State military council say there is a plan to ensure that there is no shortage of food in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State. 

The township electrical engineer’s office in Chin State’s Paletwa Township said it had initially announced that electricity, which is currently being distributed to households in downtown Paletwa from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily, would be temporarily cut off due to a shortage of fuel. However, under changed circumstances there will be no power outage as diesel was expected to arrive on Monday, he added.  

Kone Bwe village in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township has been experiencing riverbank erosion for decades, according to locals.