Preacher who defied lockdown appears in court

Facing the law: Lah waiting at the Mayangone township court in Yangon. — AFP

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.