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Workers from the Ayeyarwady Foundation build a temporary treatment center to house COVID-19 patients and suspected patients at the Thuwanna youth training center in Yangon on September 16. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)
Workers build a temporary COVID-19 treatment centre at the Thuwanna Youth Training Centre in Yangon's Thingangyun Township on September 15. When complete it will be able to accommodate up to 416 patients with mild or no symptoms. (Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe | Frontier)

Yangon scrambles to treat, isolate wave of COVID-19 patients

Health authorities in Yangon say they are preparing for up to 5,000 cases in the city by building new treatment centres for mild and asymptomatic patients.

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