The Telegraph
ByNicola Smith, and Nandi Theint ASIA CORRESPONDENT
IN YANGON
16 July 2021
Just like in India, Myanmar's citizens take their desperate pleas for help to social media.
People are lining up across Myanmar to find lifesaving oxygen CREDIT: Ye Aung Thu/AFPMyanmar’s people were first deprived of their democratic rights, and are now being starved of oxygen itself, by a February coup that has plunged the Southeast Asian nation into a political and medical crisis.
As a deadly wave of Covid-19 fueled by the Delta variant sweeps a country where the healthcare system has virtually collapsed, people have flooded social media with pleas for oxygen supplies and coveted hospital beds as their loved ones suffocate at home.