"We're tracking the latest on the coronavirus outbreak and the global response. Sign up here for our daily newsletter on what you need to know. The majority of Myanmar’s 60,000 registered factories face “irreversible damage” if shutdown measures prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic are extended beyond May 15, according to the head of the nation’s largest manufacturing trade group. “Many factories in Myanmar have been unproductive since early April and they may collapse if they are not able to operate after May 15,” Aung Thein, president of the Myanmar Industries Association, said in a telephone interview Friday. He was responding to speculation that the government is mulling an extension to lockdown, stay-at-home and business-closure measures. Myanmar had 176 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and six deaths as of Friday morning..."