man cycles along an empty street on the first day of Myanmar's New Year water festival, also known as Thingyan, in Yangon on Sunday (April 12), amid restrictions put in place to halt the spread of the Covid-19. Myanmar’s New Year festival, Thingyan, is the country’s biggest public holiday and normally a week of nation-wide celebration and water-fights, with soaked revellers partying late into the night. But this year the country’s commercial hub Yangon lies in lockdown and silent, its streets eerily empty with residents shut firmly indoors as coronavirus fears grow. - AFP
YANGON: Myanmar's New Year festival of Thingyan is the country's biggest public holiday -- normally a week of nation-wide celebration and water-fights, with soaked revellers partying late into the night.
But this year, in an echo of cancelled Easter celebrations elsewhere in the world, the country's commercial hub Yangon is locked down, with residents confined indoors because of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.
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