People gather with empty oxygen canisters as they wait to fill them up outside a factory in Yangon on July 11, 2021, amid a surge in Covid-19 coronavirus cases. - AFP
YANGON, July 13 (Reuters): Myanmar's military authorities pledged on Monday to ramp up oxygen supplies to help treat Covid-19 patients, as residents described their struggle to secure supplies to save loved-ones from a record-setting wave of infections.
Photographs on social media showed long queues of residents in Myanmar's biggest city Yangon trying to refill oxygen cylinders.
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