Floods in Myanmar have moved hundreds of people, slowing efforts to fight with the Coronavirus outbreak that grew rapidly in the midst of chaos that followed the Southeast Asian military coup, said residents told Reuters on Tuesday.
Encouraging a heavy weekend throughout the southern state causing flooding in several cities, forcing health workers to move Covid-19 patients to dry areas on wet roads.
“Hundreds of houses are submerged in water and only their roofs can be seen,” Pyane Sone, a social worker in Kayin City Hlaingbwe told Reuters by telephone, adding that the water had begun to rise early on Monday.
“Covid spreads in the city.
There are so many people who lose their sense of smell and many who are sick, it is not clear whether it is covid or seasonal flu.” But now people cannot stay at home or gather in shelters, so the spread can be serious.
“A group of volunteers and medical workers traces of patients in bed, are still connected to the oxygen tank, on the flood water cloudy in the city of Kayin Myawaddy, Facebook photos posted by the Karen Information Center Media Group (KIC).
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About 500 residential areas Along the Thai border was affected, displacing hundreds of people, said the group.
Bo Bo won, Chief Chief in Mawlamyine City, 120 km (75 miles), said at least 500 others.
The people there also suffered in annual flooding.
“Flood year It’s not as bad as we experienced in 2019, but we were in the middle of a pandemic, “added Bo Bo Win added.
Infection in Myanmar has surged since June, with 4,630 cases and 396 deaths were reported on Monday.
Medical and funeral services The victim was much higher, in the outbreak was also associated with a number of new cases in Yunnan Province of China’s border.
Angry with the support of doctors for anti-junta protests, Myanmar’s military It has also arrested several doctors who treated Covid-19 patients independently.
The military has struggled to master because of taking power in a February coup that triggered national protests, attacking and fighting in various fields in the border area when civilians raised weapons against the junta.