The Burmese army is making a bad pandemic worse
The covid-19 death rate is one of the highest in the world
THAN THAN SOE has not had a day off since covid-19 began charging through Myanmar at the end of May. She runs a charity in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, which transports covid patients to hospitals and corpses to cemeteries. Her organisation collects as many as 60 bodies a day. “We are very tired but we keep going,” says Ms Than Than Soe. Two volunteers recently got infected and died.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The second horseman”
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