"We are running our service without resting," she told AFP at the bustling office of her volunteer group. Every day "my team is collecting between 30-40 dead bodies... Sann Oo, who began working as a volunteer driver when the pandemic's first wave hit Myanmar last year, says a typical working day is now at least 13 hours long. The words "Dead Body Carrier" adorn the windscreen of one of the vehicles. The UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar last week warned the country was at risk of "becoming a Covid-19 super-spreader state".

Source: Mint July 19, 2021 02:26 UTC