Job safety: A health worker being vaccinated against Covid-19 at the Ayeyarwady Covid Centre in Yangon. — AFP
THE government launched a Covid-19 vaccination programme with healthcare staff and volunteer medical workers the first to receive shots of the AstraZeneca and Oxford University vaccine donated by neighbouring India.
The South-East Asian country managed to contain the number of Covid-19 cases early in the pandemic, but is now fighting a second wave, recording more than 138,000 cases and 3,082 deaths.
