This handout photo from local media group Chinland Herald Daily News taken on June 21, 2021 and released on June 22, shows health workers in protective suit carrying a coffin bearing a body of a Covid-19 coronavirus patient during a burial at a cemetery in Falam township in western Myanmar's Chin state. (Photo by HANDOUT / CHINLAND HERALD DAILY NEWS / AFP).

Fighting new COVID-19 variants amid turmoil and resistance

Opposition to the military regime is complicating efforts to combat a COVID-19 third wave that a government doctor in one of the worst-affected areas says is “out of control”.

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