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Myanmar’s Poorest Take Virus Fight Into Their Own Hands

  • Lacking able institutions, communities forced to take action
  • Villages, townships are imposing their own lockdowns
A municipal worker walks on an empty road in Yangon, on April 10.
A municipal worker walks on an empty road in Yangon, on April 10.Photographer: Shwe Paw Mya Tin/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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After the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar confirmed its first coronavirus infection in late March, the residents of one village in the country’s northwestern Sagaing region sprang into action.