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COVID-19 Overtakes IDP Camp In Kyaukme Township

Almost half of the civilians living as internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a camp in Kyaukme Township after fleeing violence between rival ethnic armed...

COVID-19 Spreads To IDP Camp In Kyaukme Township

An outbreak was detected in a camp in Kyaukme Township where villagers were displaced by fighting between rival ethnic armed organisations in northern Shan...

Health Officials Prioritize Testing In Shan State Townships

Fifty Buddhist nuns have tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak at a teaching facility in Lashio where they are studying. After the Hita Cari...

Villagers Fleeing Shan State Fighting Fearful Of COVID-19

Villagers who have fled fighting between rival ethnic Shan ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) are afraid of contracting COVID-19 because infection rates are high in...

COVID-19 Cluster Detected In Cement Factory In Southern Shan State

Fifty-seven tested positive in Panglaung Township last Wednesday, with almost half of the infections recorded in a 24 hour period arising from a outbreak...

Rakhine State Police Transferred To Shan State Infected With COVID-19

A police officer from Rakhine State and three members of his immediate family tested positive after arriving in Namhsan town, northern Shan State. The police...

Shan EAOs Clash in Burma’s Hsipaw Township

The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) clashed with Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) near Wam Seim village in Hsipaw Township, northern Shan State...

Taunggyi Hospital Nears Capacity During COVID-19 Outbreak

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

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...

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