This handout photo from local media group Shwe Phee Myay News Agency shows displaced Myanmar residents taking refuge at a monastery in Namlan township, Shan State receiving food aid from a volunteer group. - AFP
YANGON (Reuters): Myanmar's Red Cross is stepping up support for hundreds of thousands of people as the economic crisis since the Feb 1 coup compounds hardship caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, the aid organisation said on Tuesday (June 8).
"Many people are struggling to earn an income and have very limited access to basic services such as healthcare," the group's secretary general, Htin Zaw Soe, said in a statement.
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