‘Eating rats’: Myanmar’s second lockdown drives hunger in city slums

They live in Hlaing Thar Yar, one of Yangon’s poorest neighborhoods, 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% of households had received aid but many workplaces were shut and people had become more desperate. Even before the pandemic, a third of Myanmar’s 53 million people were considered “highly vulnerable” to falling into poverty, despite recent gains following the country’s emergence from decades of ruinous isolation under the military junta.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% had stopped working and a quarter had taken out loans for food, medicine, and other essentials.

😭😭😭😭Lord please heal the earth.Kakaiyak to

Bakit sabi ng mga dilawan at Philippine media worst sa Pilipinas? Meron pa yung pinalalabas nila noon na kinakain sa Mt Province during the early lockdown but it turned out na talagang traditional delicacy nila yun. Mga Fake news talaga.

Protect your heath from virus that's no killing more than normal yet let population starve and eat rats WTF and u still think government is God!

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