Battle for oxygen as coup-hit Myanmar faces its most severe Covid outbreak
Outbreak could not have come at a worse time, after military coup caused hospitals to collapse and threw vaccination campaign into chaos
Khin Nwe Soe* went in a taxi, from factory to factory across Myanmar's main city of Yangon, desperately searching for oxygen tanks for her 21-year-old son. A home test had shown he had Covid-19. He was in pain, able only to lie down, and his oxygen levels had dropped as low as 90%.
She tried very hard, queuing at every place she could find, because her child needed it," said Aye Myat Noe*, her daughter, who lives abroad but had called oxygen suppliers to help her mother. She has a lot of health issues too, including diabetes and heart problems. She is very scared herself ... She was seriously risking her life to find oxygen."
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