Thursday, 10 Dec 2020 01:17 PM MYT
Volunteer Sithu Aung putting on a face mask as he prepares to bury a person suspected of dying from the Covid-19 coronavirus in Yangon November 25, 2020. AFP pic
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YANGON, Dec 10 Sweating under his protective gear, volunteer Sithu Aung lays another coronavirus victim to rest offering crucial funeral rites to his Muslim community in Myanmar s virus-ravaged commercial capital.
For the past few months, the 23-year-old father and his fellow volunteers have been living in a cemetery, isolated from their families, as they spend their days collecting the bodies of the deceased from Yangon s overflowing hospitals and quarantine centres.