Hundreds of bodies are being transported to the venue every day in Myanmar-controlled The military was hit hard by the Covid-19 wave. This is according to the funeral service and funeral arrangements said.
Collected from various parts of the country, the daily death toll has risen steadily. According to the Ministry of Health, on Wednesday, July 14, there were a record 145 deaths.
Funeral services say the number of funerals at Yangon's Yay Way Cemetery has buried about 200. Every day last week, that number more than doubled.
They also said that two more cemeteries in the city were experiencing an increase in the number of charges. Between 400 and 500 bodies are cremated daily.
"We have to transport the bodies," said Bo Sein, 52, who heads a charitable service for the transport of the bodies. Various cemeteries. We transport more than 40 feet a day. ”
"Seeing the bodies at the cemetery today, I thought it would not be easy to continue," he said. Such. "You have all the poor people killed by Covid -19."
The creator of a free funeral service in Yangon, who asked not to be named, said he called volunteers Another heart to help because only 18 members of his team can not withstand the large number of corpses.
In Mandalay, an official at Aye Yeik Nyein Cemetery, Kyaw Soe Win, said 63 bodies were cremated yesterday. Tuesday. All the bodies were killed by Covid-19.
"We are very worried but need to serve the people," he said.
The Covid -19 case began to erupt in Myanmar in June and has soared for two consecutive years. This last week. As of Wednesday, there were 7,089 new infections.
According to official figures, Myanmar has a total of 208,000 cases of Covid-19 infection and 4,181 deaths. But health workers believe the number of infections is higher than the official number because tests failed after the military took over Power from Aung San Suu Kyi in the February 1 coup.
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