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Myanmar COVID-19
![Myanmar’s Military Junta Is Weaponizing Access to Life-Saving Vaccines Myanmar’s Military Junta Is Weaponizing Access to Life-Saving Vaccines](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-09-26-014139.jpg)
Myanmar’s Military Junta Is Weaponizing Access to Life-Saving Vaccines
By Zaw Wai Soe
As with international aid shipments, basic inoculations are being distributed on the basis of political loyalty.
![How Myanmar’s United Wa State Army Responded to COVID-19 How Myanmar’s United Wa State Army Responded to COVID-19](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-12-07-013045.jpg)
How Myanmar’s United Wa State Army Responded to COVID-19
By Yaolong Xian
The country's most powerful armed rebel group has played a prominent role in battling the pandemic in the areas under its control.
![Myanmar’s Garment Workers Are Caught Between COVID-19 and the Coup Myanmar’s Garment Workers Are Caught Between COVID-19 and the Coup](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-04-13-034207.jpg)
Myanmar’s Garment Workers Are Caught Between COVID-19 and the Coup
By Meghan Sullivan
After rapid growth in the garment sector during the country's period of opening, workers face a host of political and economic challenges.
![Myanmar’s Missing Millions Myanmar’s Missing Millions](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-11-02-15.jpg)
Myanmar’s Missing Millions
By Anrike Visser
Millions of dollars in pandemic relief funding from the IMF have gone missing under the military regime, even while Myanmar battles a surge of COVID-19 cases.
![China Aiding Myanmar Armed Groups in Their COVID-19 Fight China Aiding Myanmar Armed Groups in Their COVID-19 Fight](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-09-24.jpg)
China Aiding Myanmar Armed Groups in Their COVID-19 Fight
By Sebastian Strangio
Beijing has long maintained close relations to the ethnic armed groups lying along its borders with Myanmar.
![Between COVID and the Coup, a Humanitarian Emergency Is Underway in Myanmar Between COVID and the Coup, a Humanitarian Emergency Is Underway in Myanmar](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-08-24-8.jpg)
Between COVID and the Coup, a Humanitarian Emergency Is Underway in Myanmar
By Robert Bociaga
A looming humanitarian disaster proves the West’s unwillingness to counter the junta.
![Southeast Asia Facing ‘Critical’ Weeks in COVID-19 Fight: Red Cross Southeast Asia Facing ‘Critical’ Weeks in COVID-19 Fight: Red Cross](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-08-19.jpg)
Southeast Asia Facing ‘Critical’ Weeks in COVID-19 Fight: Red Cross
By Sebastian Strangio
In recent weeks, the region has seen more than twice as many deaths from the coronavirus than North America.
![How One Myanmar Village is Fighting the COVID-19 Outbreak How One Myanmar Village is Fighting the COVID-19 Outbreak](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-08-18-3.jpg)
How One Myanmar Village is Fighting the COVID-19 Outbreak
By Khin May
Without any support from the military regime, hundreds of thousands of villages in Myanmar are crying out for help.
![Amid COVID-19 Crisis, UK Calls for Humanitarian Pause in Myanmar Amid COVID-19 Crisis, UK Calls for Humanitarian Pause in Myanmar](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-08-18-2.jpg)
Amid COVID-19 Crisis, UK Calls for Humanitarian Pause in Myanmar
By Sebastian Strangio
The country currently faces a fatal combination of political upheaval, stalled vaccination efforts, and escalating outbreaks of the virus.
![Myanmar’s Former Military Dictator Hospitalized Due to COVID-19 Myanmar’s Former Military Dictator Hospitalized Due to COVID-19](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-08-13.jpg)
Myanmar’s Former Military Dictator Hospitalized Due to COVID-19
By Sebastian Strangio
Than Shwe's illness is paralleled by the collapse of the crafted system of semi-democracy that he engineered.
![China Announces Aid Dispersal to Myanmar’s Military Junta China Announces Aid Dispersal to Myanmar’s Military Junta](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-08-11-1.jpg)
China Announces Aid Dispersal to Myanmar’s Military Junta
By Sebastian Strangio
Can Western democracies offer similar aid without legitimizing Myanmar's military administration?
![Myanmar Shadow Government Forms COVID-19 Task Force Myanmar Shadow Government Forms COVID-19 Task Force](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2021-07-23-3.jpg)
Myanmar Shadow Government Forms COVID-19 Task Force
By Sebastian Strangio
The National Unity Government hopes to capitalize on the junta's incompetent response to the current COVID-19 surge.
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