Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has placed herself front and centre in the nation's fight against the disease and is pleading to the people to ignore the spread of false rumours and "ridiculous" treatments. - AP
YANGON, Sept 26 (AFP): Myanmar's biggest city Yangon has rapidly built new quarantine centres as it scrambles to contain the commercial hub's first significant coronavirus outbreak, with overworked medical staff fearing thousands more cases to come.
The Southeast Asian nation has one of the world's most impoverished healthcare systems, but had until recently remained relatively unscathed by the pandemic.
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