Myanmar such a big headache as isolated China is cracking under the strain of keeping Covid-19 out of its towns

This photo taken on Sept 3, 2021 shows labourers working to construct a new Covid-19 coronavirus quarantine centre in 115 Mile in Muse, near the China-Myanmar border. - AFP

CHINA/MYANMAR BORDER, Oct 30 (Bloomberg): China has been able to beat back successive waves of Covid-19 thanks to the widespread deployment of snap lockdowns, strict quarantines and some of the world’s tightest border controls. Yet, the strain is showing at its borders.

Case in point is Ruili, a city in remote southwestern China that is hemmed in by a 169 kilometres (105 mile) border with Myanmar on three sides.