Myanmar’s Long COVID-19 First Wave Continues
The coronavirus continues its rapid spread in Myanmar, with the number of confirmed cases surpassing 90,000 and threatening to spread to neighboring countries. After months of being relatively untouched by the virus, the country is now the third-most affected nation in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia and the Philippines. As of December 1, it had notched 92,189 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 1,941 fatalities, with more than a thousand new infections each day.
While these numbers remain low compared to those currently being clocked up by the likes of the United States, India, and Brazil, the spread of the disease reportedly threatens to overwhelm Myanmar’s ramshackle health system.
Sebastian Strangio
