YANGON, July 11 — Volunteers in white hazmat suits unload a stretcher from a pick-up truck parked in a Yangon suburb and carry their neighbourhood’s latest Covid-19 victim towards the crematorium.
“Before... people were scared to see emergency teams wearing PPE,” Tun Khine, one of the volunteers in Hle Guu township north of Yangon, told AFP on Saturday.Tun Khine, a businessman who spoke under a pseudonym, was already a member of a local volunteer group before the pandemic hit. Tun Khine and his team load the bodies into a giant coffin-like box on the back of a white pick-up truck, which bumps down the road, the volunteers riding with it in the back.
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