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Inside overcrowded prisons, preventions such as handwashing and drinking ginger tea are now in place. Do they work? And what else might be needed to prevent a mass outbreak?
Hundreds of thousands of people displaced by conflict in Myanmar face a health "catastrophe" from the coronavirus pandemic, a rights group warned, as international calls grow for an end to fighting.
Combatting the coronavirus by shutting down the country makes little sense on health grounds and would cede greater power to Myanmar’s armed forces.
Myanmar is better-placed than most countries in the region to weather the looming global economic downturn sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank says.
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Doh Athan
Doh Athan
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- January 27, 2021
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