Residents gather at a pharmacy in downtown Yangon in response to the country's first confirmed COVID-19 cases in March 2020. (Frontier)

Without a remedy: Junta policies spark medicine shortage

The declining kyat and the junta’s import restrictions have made vital medicines more expensive and in some cases hard to buy – with potentially deadly consequences for those suffering from serious health conditions.

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