Bangkok: Soe wins standing in the line at the factory to buy oxygen for his grandmother, who struggles with the symptoms of Covid-19.
“I’ve been waiting from 5am to 12 noon but I’m still in line.
Oxygen is rare than money,” said the population of Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon.
Consumed by bitter political struggle and violence because the military seized power in February, Myanmar was slow to wake up with a devastating wave in the case since mid-May.
It had left many sick people like Grandma Soe Win suffered at home if they could not find a bed at the army hospital, or prefer not to believe their care to the government that was not liked.
Under Aung San Suu Kyi, the civil leader who was overthrown by the military, Myanmar had tidied up a surge in the second Coronavirus began in August last year with a very limiting trip, sealing from Yangon, and limiting the selection of campaigns in forced locking places.
Suu Kyi often appeared on television with a firm but empathetic permit to the public about how to deal with the situation.
Vaccine equipment secured from India and China.
The Ouster came less than a week after the first Jab was given to health workers.
The elimination of Suu Kyi by the military triggered extensive protests, and medical workers pioneered popular civilian submission movements called for professionals and civil servants not to cooperate with the military-mounted government.
Military hospitals continue to operate but shunned by many people, while doctors and nurses boycott the state system running an emergency clinic, which they face the arrest.
The vaccination rate slowed to crawl, threatening an explosion of infection.
“There is no wise person with a good heart and a sincere desire for the truth to work under the Junta government,” said Zeyar Tun, founder of the Action Group Civic Clean Yangon who helped in quarantine centers.
“Under Suu Kyi, the government and volunteers work together to control this disease, but it is difficult to predict what happens in the future under military rule.” Photos and the initial news of the last week of the people who shop to buy oxygen in Kalalay City in the Northwest Sagai region brought home the reality that Myanmar’s health care, was one of the weakest, knelt.
“From Myanmar, our colleagues on the ground said they were worried about a quick increase in the number of Covid-19 cases recorded,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujric said in New York.
“The UN team warns that the large Covid-19 outbreak will have a destructive consequence on health and economics.
They emphasize the importance of continuing essential health services, implementing steps to prevent the spread of viruses, and to increase vaccination.” At the end of the week, the population of two The biggest city of Myanmar, Yangon and Mandalay, also have difficulty finding oxygen supplies.
Myanmar’s new leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, at a Friday meeting at the Covid-19 response ordered oxygen plants to work at full capacity, including changing industrial oxygen for patient needs.
The Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Aung Naing OO followed up on Saturday with the announcement that the government dropped all the tasks and license requirements for the import of oxygen concentrators – devices that produce oxygen.
The Ministry of Health on Saturday reported a record of 4,377 new cases confirmed with a total of 188,752, as well as a record of 71 deaths, bringing tolls to 3,756.
The number of people tested found were infected with around 25%, and both worrying was how quickly increased.
Data on vaccination is not too clear, but it seems that in the past month, only 3.5 million doses were given to 55 million countries, which meant the meaning of 3.2% of the population would be fully vaccinated with two doses.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the average seven-day rolling rose from 1.18 cases per 100,000 people at 25 to 6.08 cases per 100,000 people on July 9 in the same period, death surged from 0.01 per 100,000 people to 0, 08.
Even that number is likely to be an undercount.
According to the assistance of the International Group Relief, Myanmar’s main challenge is a lack of adequate filtering, testing capacity and vaccine availability.
The Ministry of Health announced Thursday night that all schools will be closed for two weeks.
The order stay at home has been spent on a poorly beaten environment in several cities, including Yangon, and the basic field hospital established.