Myanmar in acute Covid 19 crisis, people dying like drop of a hat

BY A STAFF REPORTER



Myanmar is reeling under a severe Covid 19 crisis with people queuing for hours for oxygen in major cities and the seriously ill dying at home because they are too scared to visit understaffed, ill-equipped hospitals.

Sources said in Yangon, families of the sick were waiting at oxygen plants in the hopes of refilling tanks, crematoriums packed with mourners and coffins, and funeral workers and volunteers in white hazmat suits working non-stop at cemeteries to bury rows of shrouded bodies.