Covid-19 outbreaks in Myanmar jails stir alarm

Many prisoners in Insein jail have become sick and some have died from the pandemic. - AFP

YANGON (Reuters): Forty prisoners have tested positive for Covid-19 in Myanmar's main jail where some of the thousands of anti-coup protesters who have been arrested by the junta are being held, BBC Burmese language news reported on Thursday (July 8), citing a prison official.

A spokesman Insein jail in Yangon did not answer calls from Reuters seeking comment on the report.