Taunggyi Hospital Nears Capacity During COVID-19 Outbreak
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Health professionals in Taunggyi struggle to make room for incoming patients infected with COVID-19 as the outbreak spreads in the town in eastern Shan...
COVID-19 THIRD WAVE SURGING: R2P emergency humanitarian health intervention possible?
When the people of Burma or Myanmar have already given up hope for Responsibility to Protect (R2P) humanitarian intervention by the UN and international...
Hospitals in Northern Shan State Tell COVID-19 Patients To Stay Home
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Hospitals in northern Shan State are turning people away who are infected with COVID-19 because there are no longer any beds left. According to a...
Pathogen Spreads in Shan State Under Military Council, Citizens Say
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Burma's third wave is spreading quickly across Shan State, approaching nearly a thousand cases since a private hospital in Lashio detected an infection on...
Authorities Set Up COVID-19 Checkpoints During Lashio Outbreak
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Health officials detected 49 new COVID-19 cases in northern Shan State, prompting fears the virus is spreading at a time when health care in...
Medical Staff Struggle To Keep Up With COVID-19 Outbreak
Taunggyi Township will soon not have enough medical staff to treat and test for COVID-19 if the outbreak continues in southern Shan State. The...
Thailand Frees Over 100 Prisoners from Burma
Over 100 prisoners from Burma were released to Tachileik border officials by Thailand this Tuesday, December 15. A total of 105 migrant workers, who were...
Six Cases of COVID-19 Reported in Tachileik
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By Hseng Leng /SHAN Six cases of COVID-19, including two people who returned to Burma illegally from Thailand, were reported in Tachileik on December 10. After...
Rising Cases Prompts Authorities to Reduce Tachileik Market Hours
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By Hseng Leng/SHAN Responding to an uptick in transmissions in Tachileik, health authorities ordered markets and grocery stores to close after 10 a.m. daily. All...
Woman Dies of COVID-19 in Lashio
A 38-year-old woman died of COVID-19 in the hospital in Lashio, northern Shan State, at 1 a.m. this Thursday, December 10, according to the...
