A volunteer checks the temperature of a man at the entrance of Sittwe Hospital, amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar on Aug 24, 2020. - Reuters
YANGON (Reuters): Myanmar authorities are racing to build a field hospital in the commercial capital of Yangon to cope with a surge of coronavirus infections that doctors fear threatens to overwhelm the country's fragile health system.
The South-east Asian nation reported 307 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday (Sept 15), its highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic in March, and another 134 on Wednesday morning, taking the total to 3,636 cases and 39 deaths.
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