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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Myanmar doctors threaten to stop work despite Covid eruption

In an anti-coup message on Monday, February 1, the phrase "Dictators must fall" was written on the back of a Myanmar doctor's suit.

At least 20 other doctors at a public hospital have rallied against the generals who overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday and obstructed the pro-democracy movement.

Doctors have threatened to stop working as coronavirus infections continue to rise in the country of 54 million people.

"We cannot accept a dictator and an unelected government," Dr Myo Thet Oo, who took part in the campaign, told Reuters from the northeastern town of Lashio. They can arrest us at any time. "We decided to face this, we all decided not to go to the hospital."

However, Reuters was unable to contact Myanmar's new military government for comment on the medical boycott and signs of growing opposition.

As of 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Myanmar had a total of 140,354 cases of 19 Covid  cases, 3,138 deaths and 125,324 cases.

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