Drop your guns, Myanmar cardinal pleads
Cardinal Bo says people need medical care, medicine and food as Covid-19 surges in the coup-hit country
Updated: July 18, 2021 07:48 AM GMT
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People defy a military curfew as they wait to fill empty oxygen canisters in Yangon on July 14 amid a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases in Myanmar. (Photo: AFP)
Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon has pleaded for urgent medical aid as the third wave of Covid-19 worsens in coup-hit Myanmar.
“Let all those who hold the guns, in the name of the Lord, we plead, drop all guns, bring medical care at once,” he said in a homily on July 18.