Yangon
Smoke, rubble and gunshot wounds have conjured images of Yangon neighbourhoods as “battlegrounds” this week, and though the term helps emphasise the severity of the situation, it can also be slightly misleading.
A 100-year-old Yangon woman has fully recovered from Covid-19, according to a local politician, making her the oldest known patient to beat the virus in Myanmar.
The US Embassy yesterday told its citizens in Yangon to expect more arrests of people who flout the stay-at-home orders this weekend, as Covid-19 cases rise in the city.
Government officials have discussed providing food to all seven million Yangonites as part of a plan to stem the spread of Covid-19.
Nothing quite goes with a pandemic and imminent economic meltdown than massive hungry crocodiles escaping from an enclosure and into the city.
The government has hardened its stance on Covid-19 restrictions in Yangon after announcing another daily record in the number of infections in Myanmar since the pandemic began.
Pansodan will be redesigned under a US$3.4 million project funded by the UK government.
In a move that reflects the strain on hospital capacity caused by a recent surge in Covid-19 cases, Yangon authorities have added tents outside the emergency departments of four hospitals.
A citizen-science project aiming to identify snakes in Myanmar has found a species so rare it has only been seen about six times in the last 149 years.