A volunteer fills an oxygen tank as coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases surge in Mandalay, Myanmar. - Reuters
YANGON, July 18 (Reuters): For a week, 21-year-old student Phoe Thar has been out by dawn to gather oxygen cylinders from the homes of coronavirus sufferers in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay.
He and fellow volunteers line the tanks up outside charities for filling and returning, trying to save lives in a country whose health system has largely collapsed since a Feb. 1 coup and which now faces its worst surge of Covid-19 infections.
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