'Dead 団体/死体 運送/保菌者': Covid 殺到する 圧倒するs Myanmar burial volunteers

A coronavirus surge is ripping through Myanmar

A coronavirus 殺到する is ripping through Myanmar

With hospitals in 革命評議会-run Myanmar empty of プロの/賛成の-僕主主義 医療の staff and coronavirus 事例/患者s 殺到するing 全国的な, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the 急速な/放蕩な-rising number of 犠牲者s dying in their homes.

早期に each morning, Than Than Soe's phone starts (犯罪の)一味ing with requests from family members of those who have died in the 商業の 資本/首都 Yangon.

She 令状s the 指名する, 演説(する)/住所 and 接触する number of the 犠牲者 in a ledger and 派遣(する)s a team to their home.

"We are running our service without 残り/休憩(する)ing," she told AFP at the bustling office of her volunteer group.

Every day "my team is collecting between 30-40 dead 団体/死体s... I think other teams will be the same like us".

"いつかs, there are two dead 団体/死体s in one house."

Hospitals around the country are empty of both doctors and 患者s because of a long-running strike against the 軍の 政権 that 掴むd 力/強力にする in February.

普及した 怒り/怒る at the クーデター -- and 恐れる of 存在 seen to 協力する with the 政権 -- is also keeping many away from 軍の-run hospitals, leaving volunteers to source precious oxygen and bring the dead for 火葬.

With medical staff on strike against the junta, volunteers are taking on the risky job of disposing of Covid victims' bodies

With 医療の staff on strike against the 革命評議会, volunteers are taking on the risky 職業 of 配置する/処分する/したい気持ちにさせるing of Covid 犠牲者s' 団体/死体s

Sann Oo, who began working as a volunteer driver when the pandemic's first wave 攻撃する,衝突する Myanmar last year, says a typical working day is now at least 13 hours long.

"We used to send 患者s to hospitals," he told AFP. "We asked 患者s 'which hospital do you wanna go to?'

"But now it's different. When we receive 後継の calls, we have to ask, 'Which 共同墓地?'"

当局 報告(する)/憶測d almost 5,500 事例/患者s on Saturday, up from around 50 per day in 早期に May, but 分析家s say the true (死傷者)数 is likely much higher.

At the house of one 犠牲者, Sann Oo and the team ひもで縛る the 死体 の上に a 担架, cover it with a 一面に覆う/毛布 and navigate the 狭くする 木造の staircase 負かす/撃墜する to the street.

They carry the 担架 to the 先頭 while another volunteer 攻撃する,衝突するs a gong used in Buddhist funeral 儀式s.

As they arrive at the Kyi Su crematorium there are at least eight other 救急車s already parked outside.

The words "Dead 団体/死体 運送/保菌者" adorn the windscreen of one of the 乗り物s.

- 'Only bad news' -

医療の 労働者s who were at the 最前部 of Myanmar's Covid -19 返答 before the クーデター have been 的d after 主要な 早期に 集まり 抗議するs against 革命評議会 支配する.

Medical workers who were at the forefront of Myanmar's Covid-19 response before the coup have been targeted after leading early mass protests against junta rule

医療の 労働者s who were at the 最前部 of Myanmar's Covid-19 返答 before the クーデター have been 的d after 主要な 早期に 集まり 抗議するs against 革命評議会 支配する

最高の,を越す health 公式の/役人s, 含むing the 長,率いる of Myanmar's ワクチン接種 programme, have been 拘留するd and hundreds of others have gone 地下組織の to 避ける 逮捕(する).

Last week, the 明言する/公表する 行政 会議 -- as the 革命評議会 名付ける/吹き替えるs itself -- called for doctors and nurses to volunteer for the Covid-19 成果/努力, admitting it was 直面するing "difficulties" in controlling the 殺到する.

明言する/公表する マスコミ 報告(する)/憶測d Saturday that 当局 were 急ぐing in oxygen 供給(する)s from 隣人ing Thailand and 中国.

The UN's special rapporteur for human 権利s in Myanmar last week 警告するd the country was at 危険 of "becoming a Covid-19 最高の-spreader 明言する/公表する".

Than Than Soe said two of her team had 実験(する)d 肯定的な since the 最近の spike, and one has died.

"Everything I hear is only bad news," she 追加するd.

One man her office hel ped called his brother at the Kyi Su 共同墓地, where his mother was about to be 火葬するd, and asked him to wait for the 救急車 bringing their father, who had just died.

"I want them to 会合,会う one last time," he sobbed into the phone.

For Than Than Soe, such scenes have become constant.

"いつかs I don't 選ぶ up the phone and don't want to answer calls," she said.

"It's not because I don't want to do my 義務s... it's because I'm 苦しむing a lot of 苦痛."

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