Yangon: Residents in the whole largest city of Myanmar opposed the military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their breathing breathing as a new Coronavirus wave crashing into a country coup.
Spike in case is the latest blow to Myanmar, who has suffered a February coup and bloody crackdown in differences of opinion that has killed more than 900 people and destroys the economy.
Hundreds of queues at Yangon when the sun rises on Wednesday in the hope of refilling the blue oxygen cylinder to be taken home to a family member struck by a virus.
Some have brought chairs and prepared to wait long.
For others, it’s too late.
“My sister suffered Covid-19 for three days,” rather than Zaw won, told AFP when he left one queue in the city around 7 million.
“On the first day, he was dizzy with low pressure (blood) …
and he suffered a lot yesterday because he couldn’t breathe well.” “But when I queued to fill the oxygen this morning, my niece called me to go home when my sister died.” Authorities recorded more than 7,000 new cases on Wednesday – compared with less than 50 per day in early May.
Millions of people in Yangon and the second city of Mandalay have been ordered to stay at home, but the number of victims continues to rise and the voluntary team steps to eliminate the victim’s body from their environment.
Ye Kyaw Moe, a sailor, said he slipped at 3am – half an hour before lifting the martial that was forced at the military – to get a place in the oxygen line.
But when he arrived at the refill center at Yangon, there were 14 other people in front of him.
“I haven’t slept all night,” he told AFP.
“I also have to be careful to avoid soldiers because we are still under martial law.” The State Administration Board – because Junta calls itself – say no need alarm.
“Actually we have enough oxygen,” Run the headlines in global new light Tuesday Myanmar, newspaper supported by the country.
“People don’t need to worry too much about it and may not spread rumors,” it quoted the leader of Junta Min Aung Hlaing.
But rather than Zaw win disagree.
“He doesn’t have other diseases …
it’s impossible for my sister to die if we have enough oxygen,” he said.
Myanmar’s debut was put into partial locking last year but enforcement was often loose in developing countries, where many had to choose between the following rules and feed their families.
The new wave came with a country shaken from post-coup violence, and with many medical workers joined the national civil disobedience campaign against the military.
The infection also seeped across the border of Myanmar’s porous – last week a cluster on the border City of Ruili helped push the Kaseload of the Chinese daily to be the highest in six months.
Of the 57 nationally reported cases, 12 was a citizen of Myanmar in Ruili, the authorities said.
The vaccine launch is also slow – only around 1.75 million people have been vaccinated in 54 million countries, according to Junta.
“Junta does not have resources, abilities, and legitimacy to bring this crisis under control,” said UN Special Reporters about Myanmar Tom Andrews said on Wednesday.
“Crisis …
very deadly because of the pervasive distrust of the military junta.” Spike also increases difficulties for humanitarian workers that are too high.
“Moving staff to where they can do the best and moving assistance to the community who need it, all of them become more challenging,” spokesman for the Red Cross in the country told AFP.
Myanmar will receive four million doses of vaccines from China in the first week of August – late for those who struggle to breathe.
In another queue in Yangon, Aung Kyaw hopes to get more oxygen for his wife.
The last time he wanted to fill the cylinder of 40 liters (10 gallons), he kept waiting for 24 hours, the 43-year-old said.
Unlike others, he said he was unable to travel across the city looking for a refill center where the queue was shorter.
“So I have to wait and queue here through rain or sun and all night too.”