A preacher who said Christians were immune to the coronavirus and then contracted it himself appeared in a Myanmar court to face charges over organising services in defiance of a ban on gatherings.
David Lah, a Canadian citizen of Burmese origin, and another man, Myanmar national Wai Tun, face a maximum three-year prison term under the disaster management law over the church services held in the commercial capital of Yangon in early April.
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