YANGON has rapidly built new quarantine centres as it scrambles to contain the commercial hub’s first significant Covid-19 outbreak, with overworked medical staff fearing thousands more cases to come.
The South-East 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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