Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment pray in front of bodies of people who died from the Covid-19 coronavirus during their funeral at a cemetery in Mandalay on July 14, 2021. - AFP
YANGON (Reuters): Hundreds more bodies than usual are being taken for funerals every day in junta-ruled Myanmar as a new wave of Covid-19 sweeps through the country, services transporting the bodies and arranging ceremonies said.
The accounts from different parts of Myanmar point to the daily death tolls being higher than those given by the health ministry, which hit a record 145 fatalities on Wednesday (July 14).
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