Virus-hit Myanmar orders lockdown

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 03, 2021 12:27 am

YANGON, MYANMAR: Myanmar authorities imposed stay-at-home-measures on the country's second city Friday as coronavirus cases in the coup-wracked country surge, with many health workers striking to protest against the junta.

Inhabitants of Mandalay, as well as two townships in the southern Bago region woke up to new restrictions banning more than one person leaving home for non-medical reasons.

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