Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment pray in front of bodies of people who died from Covid-19 at a cemetery in Mandalay on July 14, 2021. (AFP)

‘Dead body carrier’: Covid surge overwhelms Myanmar burial volunteers

With hospitals in Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and coronavirus cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the fast-rising number of victims dying in their homes.

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