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Reference :https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2151203/dead-body-carrier-covid-surge-overwhelms-myanmar-burial-volunteers
Date : Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:45:00 +0700
A coronavirus surge is ripping through Myanmar. *

YANGON: With hospitals in junta-run Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and coronavirus cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the fast-rising number of victims dying in their homes.*

Early each morning, Than Than Soe's phone starts ringing with requests from family members of those who have died in the commercial capital Rangoon.*

She writes the name, address and contact number of the victim in a ledger and dispatches a team to their home.*

"We are running our service without resting," she told AFP at the bustling office of her volunteer group.*

Every day "my team is collecting between 30-40 dead bodies... I think other teams will be the same like us".*

"Sometimes, there are two dead bodies in one house."*

Hospitals around the country are empty of both doctors and patients because of a long-running strike against the military regime that seized power in February.*

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Widespread anger at the coup -- and fear of being seen to cooperate with the regime -- is also keeping many away from military-run hospitals, leaving volunteers to source precious oxygen and bring the dead for cremation.*

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

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

"But now it's different. When we receive incoming calls, we have to ask, 'Which cemetery?'"*

Authorities reported almost 5,500 cases on Saturday, up from around 50 per day in early May, but analysts say the true toll is likely much higher.*

At the house of one victim, Sann Oo and the team strap the corpse onto a stretcher, cover it with a blanket and navigate the narrow wooden staircase down to the street.*

They carry the stretcher to the van while another volunteer hits a gong used in Buddhist funeral rites.*

As they arrive at the Kyi Su crematorium there are at least eight other ambulances already parked outside.*

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The words "Dead Body Carrier" adorn the windscreen of one of the vehicles.*

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ripping through Myanmar. = ทะลุทะลวงเมียนมาร์
dispatches a team = ส่งทีม
bustling office = สำนักงานที่พลุกพล่าน
dead for cremation = ตายเผาศพ
Which cemetery? = สุสานไหน?
strap the corpse onto a stretcher = รัดศพไว้บนเปลหาม
Buddhist funeral rites = พิธีศพของชาวพุทธ