Residents hang yellow flags to call for aid

Call for help: Yellow flags hanging outside homes in Hlaing Tharyar township, Yangon. — The Straits Times/ANN

FOR days, Thuzar Myint wept in despair. Five out of six people in her household, including herself, were down with Covid-19.

She was too sick to report for work at a garment factory in Yangon, and too poor to take her elderly parents to the clinic. They were wasting away before her.