Covid stigma keeps Myanmar medical volunteers locked out of home

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by Ye Aung THU TAUNGOO, Myanmar (AFP) —  Buddhist monk and a budding sailor are among the outcasts squatting in an abandoned building in Myanmar while they help bury coronavirus victims and their worried families tell them to keep away. A surge in infections across the country has been aggravated by a lack of formal medical care, with many hospitals empty of staff joining nationwide strikes against a February military coup. Thar Gyi, one of […]