AIZAWL: Mizoram health department officials said 34 out of 54 family members of Myanmar legislators who took refuge in Mizoram after the February military coup, are infected with Covid-19.
The Myanmar legislators and their family members were lodged in an indoor stadium in southern Aizawl separately from the other refugees.
There are at least 24 legislators elected in Myanmar general elections in 2020 who fled the country and took shelter in Mizoram with some of them staying with their relatives in Aizawl and elsewhere, while over 10 legislators and family were lodged in the stadium.
Refugees, who are lodged at a relief camp in Sihphir village, about 15km north of Aizawl, were also infected with Covid-19 as 56 people were found to be positive after tests.
