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July 20, 2021
Fatalities from the third wave of Covid-19 in Arakan State on Sunday surpassed the death toll of the pandemic’s first two waves combined. The...
July 20, 2021
In some Arakan State villages, visitors have reportedly been restricted from entering and leaving to control and prevent the spread of Covid-19. U...
July 20, 2021
Some patients in Arakan State who have been infected with Covid-19 and are receiving treatment at hospitals say they have had difficulty accessing...
July 20, 2021
n outbreak in Paletwa continues to grow. A total of 112 have tested positive, of which 90 are still receiving medical care in the hospital in the...
July 20, 2021
A Tweet from James Palmer, deputy editor of Foreign Policy has provoked outrage among ethnic Karen community groups. Palmer’s critics accuse him of...
July 20, 2021
The people of Burma are facing a Covid-19 crisis that is estimated to have killed 5,281 people and climbing. The international Covid-19 data...
July 19, 2021
The military arrested up to twenty youths and accused them of helping the People Defence Force (PDF). Members of the civilian resistance group told...
July 19, 2021
A homemade bomb exploded at an office of Myanmar’s state electricity provider on July 16, injuring at least seven people in the latest example of...
July 19, 2021
Maungdaw District Hospital in northern Arakan State is in need of oxygen supplies, according to the hospital’s superintendent, Dr. Nu Kaythi San. The...
This picture taken on July 14, 2021 shows people waiting to fill empty oxygen canisters at a location donating oxygen at no cost in Yangon, amid a surge in the number of Covid-19 coronavirus cases. Photo: AFP
July 19, 2021
Myanmar citizens face serious problems with medical treatment and supplies in part because of the crackdown by the junta as COVID-19 case numbers...
This photo taken on December 19, 2020, shows healthcare workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) as they prepare to transfer the body of a person who died from the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Ayeyarwady Covid Center at the Thuwana football stadium in Yangon, amid the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. : AFP
July 19, 2021
In a clinic in a remote Myanmar town, some of the few doctors still working after the coup emptied hospitals are battling to keep their COVID-19...
July 19, 2021
With Covid-19 fatalities during the pandemic’s third wave in Arakan State rising to 31 on Friday, it appeared likely that by the weekend’s end the...