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Sithu Aung, seen here on November 25 after burying a person suspected of dying from COVID-19 at the Hteinbin Muslim Cemetery in Yangon, is one of several Muslim volunteers living in cemeteries to isolate from their families while providing crucial funeral rites to the commercial capital's Muslim community. (AFP)

Burying the dead: Myanmar’s Muslim COVID volunteers

A group of volunteers have been living in cemetaries to isolate from their loved ones while providing crucial funeral rites to the COVID-19 dead among Yangon's Muslim community.

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