Myanmar: Covid-19 outbreak hits health system badly; govt extends preventive measures until end of June

A general view of the hospital in Cikha, Myanmar on May 28, 2021. - Reuters

YANGON, May 30 (Reuters/Xinhua): Myanmar's anti-Covid campaign foundered along with the rest of the health system after the military seized power on Feb. 1 and overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government had stepped up testing, quarantine and treatment.

Services at public hospitals collapsed after many doctors and nurses joined strikes in a Civil Disobedience Movement in the forefront of opposition to military rule - and sometimes on the frontline of protests that have been bloodily suppressed.