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Traffic is blocked by a barricade set up in the wake of strict limits on cross-township travel in downtown Mandalay, where COVID-19 cases have recently exploded. (Teza Hlaing | Frontier)
Traffic is blocked by a barricade set up to limit cross-township travel in downtown Mandalay, where COVID-19 cases have recently exploded. (Teza Hlaing | Frontier)

‘I can’t even dig ditches’: COVID-19 restrictions test Mandalay’s poor

Mandalay is struggling to balance virus containment with the economic impact of stay-at-home orders, which added another layer of hardship this month to the lives of casual day labourers already struggling to support their families.

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