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Myanmar’s Covid deluge fuelled by distrust of military junta

Infections double every week and hospitals overflow after crackdown sends health workers into hiding

A surge of Covid-19 infections is swamping Myanmar’s threadbare healthcare system, causing bodies to pile up at cemeteries and crematoriums and adding a virulent element to the disorder that has followed the coup in February.

People are queueing before dawn to fill oxygen cylinders for ailing relatives and panic buying chicken and eggs in the belief that the foods will help boost immunity. Social media is awash with accounts of hospitals having to turn away patients and people dying alone or on the street.

General Min Aung Hlaing, the junta chief, appealed on Sunday for volunteers and for “organisations and associations to co-operate with us as much as they can”. 

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