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, par SAINI Fabio , SCIORTINO Rosalia, Van Der PUTTEN Marc
A police officer points his gun at a medical worker during the crackdown on anti-regime protests in Yangon.
Since the military overthrew the civilian government in Myanmar in February 2021, the situation in the country has continued to deteriorate and people live in a state of terror that (…)
, by The Irrawaddy
Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) is planning its coronavirus vaccine rollout for the country’s people, with six million vaccine doses from a United Nations (UN)-backed program on their way. The hope is to cool down the deadly current COVID-19 third wave, as well as to prevent (…)
, by The Irrawaddy
COVID-19 deaths mount with alarming speed in Myanmar’s Kale Township in Sagaing Region where social workers and philanthropic groups leading the response say at least 207 people are believed to have died from coronavirus from July 1 to 6.
But the junta-controlled Ministry of Health and Sports (…)
, by The Irrawaddy
More than half of Chin State in northwestern Myanmar has been locked down after the military regime imposed stay-at-home orders for four more townships in the state due to the COVID-19 spike.
After seeing the rapid spread of coronavirus in the region, the junta-controlled Ministry of Health (…)
, by The Irrawaddy
Myanmar reported 96 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, the highest daily rise in coronavirus cases in the last three months.
The number of new cases is the highest since Feb. 6. Myanmar reported a total of 2,616,466 COVID-19 cases as of Thursday, with the death toll reaching 3,216, according (…)
, by ONG Andrew
Covid-19 has reached Myanmar’s autonomous regions. But the Wa Region’s militarised nature and access to Chinese assistance might prove valuable in the fight against the pandemic.
While the Covid-19 pandemic spread across Myanmar, the autonomous regions at the country’s peripheries controlled (…)
, by HTWE Zaw Zaw
YANGON—Around 250,000 Myanmar workers have lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 crisis both locally and internationally as factories, shops, restaurants and other major employers have been forced to close, the Ministry of Labor, Immigration and Population (MOLIP) said on Friday.
Deputy Labor (…)
, by BELLO Walden, FRANCO Jennifer, KRAMER Tom, LAHKYEN Doi Ra, VERVEST Pietje
The Covid-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) that the government rolled out in the last week of April is a welcome initiative for a country that is suffering from both the assault of the novel coronavirus and the massive economic impact of the nationwide lockdown that the government has imposed to (…)
, by The Irrawaddy
Burma urgently needs humanitarian assistance; the country’s HIV/AIDS sufferers are dying and require medical attention.
But the generals who rule the country are not ready to acknowledge the humanitarian crisis facing the country. Worse still, they prevent aid workers from delivering (…)
, by Shah Paung
A hospital run by the Burmese military government has stopped providing free medical services to HIV/AIDS sufferers, according to a person living with HIV/AIDS who was directly affected by the decision.
Tin Ko Ko said that HIV/AIDS sufferers who receive treatment at Rangoon Infectious Diseases (…)
Zar Zar’s husband was a womanizer. Throughout their five years of marriage he was a regular in the brothels around the city of Rangoon in Burma, drank heavily, was violent, and more than once gave her a sexually transmitted infection.
She tried telling his parents, but they had never approved (…)
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