Friday, 23 Oct 2020 06:55 PM MYT
During the second wave, when the government issued a stay-home order in September for Yangon, Ma Suu shut her stall again and sold her clothes, plates and pots. They live in Hlaing Thar Yar, one of Yangon’s poorest neighbourhoods, where residents shine flashlights in the undergrowth behind their homes, looking for some night creature to stave off their hunger.
Local administrator Nay Min Tun said in his part of Hlaing Thar Yar 40 per cent of households had received aid but many workplaces were shut and people had become more desperate. The financial squeeze now threatens to plunge many back into poverty or squash their chances of getting out. A survey by ONow Myanmar of more than 2,000 people across the country in April found 70 per cent had stopped working and a quarter had taken out loans for food, medicine, and other essentials.
DG,-W.H.O 24/10/20 We urge leaders to take immediate action, to prevent further unnecessary deaths, essential health services from collapsing and schools shutting again. As I said it in February and I'm repeating it today: This is not a drill.'😢😭
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