Volunteers with Yangon's Free Funeral Service Society transport a body from the deceased's home to the Yayway cemetery on December 11, 2020. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)
Volunteers with Yangon's Free Funeral Service Society transport a body from the deceased's home to the Yayway cemetery on December 11, 2020. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)

Missing data leaves the pandemic’s true death toll in Myanmar in the dark

It may be a long time, if ever, before the country can fully account for the loss of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, and anecdotal evidence from cemeteries and hospitals in Yangon shows a muddled picture.

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