Myanmar: Hundreds of more bodies than usually taken for funeral every day in Myanmar who are ruled by Junta as a new wave of Covid-19 sweeping the country, services that transport the body and regulate the ceremony.
Accounts from various parts of Myanmar point to the daily death toll be higher than given by the Ministry of Health, which reached a record of 145 deaths on Wednesday.
Reuters cannot reach the Ministry of Health or Junta Junta to comment on further numbers.
The number of funerals at Yay Way’s cemetery in the biggest city of Myanmar, Yangon, around 200 per day during the past week, more than doubled the number that is usually expected, said the funeral service.
There is a similar increase in two other graves in the city with 400 to 500 people cremated there per day, they said.
“We have to transport the bodies to different graves.
We make more than 40 trips a day,” said Bo Sein, 52, which operates a charity transportation body.
“Seeing the bodies in the cemetery today, I think that it won’t be easy to continue like this.
The rich and poor people, all died of Covid,” said Bo Sein, the own kit in transporting body protector equipment.
The founder of other free funeral services in Yangon, who refused to be named for fear of retribution, said he called for volunteers because 18 members of his team could no longer handle it.
The image of the funeral by which Yay shows a corpse that is in line for cremation.
In the city of Mandalay both Myanmar, an official from Aye Yeik Nyein’s funeral said 63 bodies had been cremated there on Tuesday.
All suspected Covid-19 cases while other graves handle death from other causes, he said.
“We are worried, but we need to serve people,” said the official, Kyaw Soe won, told Reuters by telephone.
The Coronavirus case began to rise in Myanmar in June, and has surged in the past two weeks, with a record 7,089 infection reported on Wednesday.
According to official figures, there were more than 208,000 infections and 4,181 deaths in the country since the start of Pandemi.
Health workers believe that the figures of this case are far higher than those who were officially reported because testing fainted after the military seized power from the chosen leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1.
Spokesperson for military authorities said on Monday that they did everything they did Pandemic under control and appeal to Myanmar’s charity and charity groups for cooperation.
About one in three recent positive tests compared to 5% that the World Health Organization said the outbreak was being controlled.
This level briefly rose above 20% last year because the government of Suu Kyi carried a second wave of controlled infections.
“The death rate is now far more than last year,” said 34-year-old social worker Kyaw Zin Oo, who tried to bring the oxygen cylinder to suffer from patients.
Many medical officers have joined the civil disobedience movement, stopped working at the State Hospital in protest in the coup.
Myanmar’s funeral service was overwhelmed as a Covid-19 toll road
