This handout photo from the state-run Myanmar News Agency taken on July 28, 2021 and received on July 29 shows Sean Turnell, a detained Australian adviser to Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, getting vaccinated against the Covid-19 coronavirus in Insein prison in Yangon. - AFP
YANGON (Reuters): Myanmar's main prison vaccinated more than 600 inmates against Covid-19 on the first day of a drive to inoculate inmates, state media reported on Thursday (July 29), as military authorities struggle to control a wave of infections across the country.
Infections have surged since June, with 4,980 cases and 365 deaths reported on Wednesday, according to health ministry data cited in media. Medics and funeral services put the toll much higher.
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