Cemeteries overcrowded, workers overworked from Covid-19 third wave
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Myanmar cemeteries overcrowded, volunteers overworked from deadly third wave of Covid-19
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Myanmar cemeteries overcrowded, volunteers overworked from deadly third wave of Covid-19
Myanmar cemeteries overcrowded, vol.
YANGON: As Myanmar suffers its deadliest surge in Covid-19 and its citizens suffer from massive shortages in oxygen, bodies pile up in its crematoriums. We have to transport around 20 to 30 bodies per day. Some days, we cannot even get them all, said Ko Min Din from the Myittar Thingaha humanitarian group.
Ko Min Din says the large numbers of deaths during the third wave of Covid-19 means that groups like Myittar Thingaha are outstretched and overworked. We cannot afford any rest days. We pick up the body, get the death certificate, and send it to the cemetery. When it is our turn, we give it to the cemetery and we leave, says Ko Min Din.
Myanmar’s Economy in Freefall Under Military Regime
Myanmar’s Economy in Freefall Under Military Regime
Feature: The military regime s security forces guarding City Hall in downtown Yangon Feb.6 / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 22 April 2021
Before last year’s November election, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank predicted that Myanmar would bounce back strongly from the economic impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with the economy set to grow at around 6 percent in 2021.
In the immediate aftermath of the military’s Feb. 1 coup, junta leaders sought to keep the economy on track by presenting themselves as business-friendly and saying that economic policies would remain unchanged during the state of emergency. The junta even appointed some individuals to Myanmar’s key economic ministries who were already well-connected and well-known to the international community.