While Myanmar responded early anddecisively to the COVID-19 pandemic thereby limiting adversehealth impacts, evidence from the Myanmar COVID-19Monitoring Platform shows that impacts on households’welfare were significant. Border movement restrictionsstarting in February and a complete lockdown between Marchand April forced non-essential businesses to ceaseoperations and prevented people from traveling to work.Meanwhile, about 100,000 economic migrants returned fromThailand alone. As a result, in May 2020, about 54 percentof households’ main workers reported not working and about16 percent of firms had temporarily closed. The easing ofrestrictions between May and August contributed to a partialrebound of the economy, which is still suffering from theimpact of reduced global demand, border trade disruptions,and potential changes in consumer behaviors.
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