After two months of semi-lockdown, the commercial capital is bouncing back to the new normal of life with the coronavirus.
Auxiliary firefighters had a bad reputation under military rule, but these days, communities celebrate their heroics as they battle blazes and the pandemic.
Almost a quarter of Myanmar’s COVID-19 cases are concentrated in a single suburb of Yangon, but walking the streets of Insein Township you wouldn’t necessarily know it.
Each morning, a medical team visits people in quarantine to collect swabs that will be tested for COVID-19. It’s hard, uncomfortable work that carries the constant risk of infection.
