A medical worker wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) changes gloves as she works inside surgical observation room for Persons Under Investigation (PUI) at Yangon General Hospital, in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
04 September 2021
Effectively assessing the COVID-19 pandemic situation in Myanmar is hard to do under...
The study followed nearly 1,300 people hospitalised for Covid between January and May 2020 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the first city affected by the pandemic Yasuyoshi CHIBA AFP
28 August 2021
Fatigue and shortness of breath still afflict many patients a year after their...
A health worker prepares to give the first-time dose of Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine to people who are part of the 65 years and older tier at a school being used as a vaccination site in Yangon. Photo: AFP
20 August 2021
Myanmar reported 2,590 new COVID-19 infections with 159 more deaths in the past 24 hours...
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19 August 2021
Vietnam shares the difficulties that the country and people of Myanmar are facing due to...
17 August 2021
The Catholic Church has stepped up testing to detect Covid-19 in internally displaced...
Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Allegations have been made that the COVID-19 virus may have been made in the lab and accidently or deliberately leaked. Photo: EPA
14 August 2021
A Canadian oil and gas worker may have sparked a cascade of events that could lead to the...
Photo: AFP
14 August 2021
The former longtime military dictator of Myanmar, Than Shwe, has been diagnosed with...
 A medical worker wearing PPE (personal protective equipment) moves a patient into COVID-19 cases management zone at the emergency department at Yangon General Hospital, in Yangon, Myanmar, 01 January 2021. Photo: EPA
29 July 2021
Junta authorities in Myanmar are seeking help from the international community to tackle...
Mary P Callahan is associate professor in the Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.
19 July 2021
Controversy has blown up over a story published in Asia Times and translated into Burmese...
An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 17, 2020. Photo: AFP
17 July 2021
China on Friday rebuffed WHO accusations that it failed to share raw data needed for an...
16 July 2021
The death toll in the third wave of Covid-19, which is on the rise in Myanmar, has...
Myanmar people wait near oxygen tanks lined up to refill outside an oxygen factory in Yangon, Myanmar, 11 July 2021.  Photo: EPA
15 July 2021
Residents across Myanmar's biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate...

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