A medical worker walks past trucks lined up at a toll gate along the Yangon-Mandalay Highway, their drivers waiting to be tested for COVID-19. Travel restrictions and COVID-19 transport protocols have caused major disruptions to the country's logistics network. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)

‘Our noses are sore’: truck drivers endure huge jams, repeated testing

Snap rule changes and snails-pace processing mean truck drivers have at times been forced to wait for days at checkpoints on Myanmar’s major trucking routes during the country’s “second wave” of COVID-19.

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