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Desperate search for oxygen in Myanmar as latest COVID-19 wave hits
Myanmar s spike in Covid-19 cases is the latest blow to a country already suffering from a February coup and a bloody crackdown on dissent that has killed over 900 people and gutted the economy AFP/STR
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YANGON: Residents across Myanmar s biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.
Thursday, 15 Jul 2021 10:46 AM MYT
Locals line up with their tanks to refill oxygen during the Covid-19 outbreak in Yangon, Myanmar July 14, 2021. ― Reuters pic
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YANGON, July 15 ― Residents across Myanmar s biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.
The spike in cases is the latest blow to Myanmar, already suffering from a February coup and a bloody crackdown on dissent that has killed over 900 people and gutted the economy.
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COVID-19 SURGES IN MYANMAR AS MILITARY JUNTA ATTACKS HEALTH WORKERS
Myanmar is in the midst of a catastrophic wave of COVID-19 infections, with the number of new cases rising daily and the positivity rate reaching more than 30 percent among those tested for the virus. The country’s health system is unable to deal with the surge in infections and deaths.
Since the military deposed Myanmar’s civilian-led government on 1 February, they have reversed any progress made in containing COVID-19. The security forces’ violent crackdown, which has killed more than 900 civilians, has driven many medical professionals underground. On 7 July the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, warned that, “Myanmar is at grave risk of becoming a COVID-19 super-spreader state, impacting untold numbers of people both inside and outside of its borders.”
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