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.
From boiled catfish soup to spicy fried frog, an eight-year-old in pyjamas is delighting Myanmar with her culinary prowess in a nation being told to stay at home due to COVID-19.
The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.
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