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Corona Chronicles: Voices from the Field: Myanmar

2020年12月3日ポリーナ・ポリャンスカヤ

フォトエッセイ　ロックダウン中のヤンゴン

数か月間の外出禁止措置（セミ・ロックダウン）の後、ヤンゴン管区域政府（Yangon Region Government）は新型コロナウィルス感染拡大を封じ込めるため、2020年9月21日に2度目の全面的都市封鎖を命じ、700万人以上が自宅に閉じ込められることとなった

3 December, 2020 Polina Polianskaja

Yangon under lockdown. A photo essay

After months of semi-lockdowns, on 21 September 2020, the Yangon Region Government ordered a second complete shutdown in an effort to contain the spread of the Novel Coronavirus, confining more than seven million people to their homes.

2020年4月27日サン・サン・ウー

コロナの時代に

2019年の終わりにミャンマーに襲いかかってきたのは、中国東部の武漢における致命的なSARSコロナウイルス、COVID-19に関するインターネットニュースだった。その頃のヤンゴンでは、誰が新型ウイルスに感染したかということに関してほとんど分かっていなかった。

2020年4月16日アウン・ミン

ミャンマーにおけるCOVID-19
──なぜ我々は備えをしなかったのか──

今のいわゆる「コロナの時代」に、オンラインのソーシャルメディア、特にFacebookにアクセスが殺到している。国家指導者、アウン・サン・スー・チーまでもが同サイトを活用し、これを通じて国民と対話するようになった。

14 May, 2020 Mon Mon Myat and Patrick Keeney

The New Normal and Conversations Under the Tamarind Tree

Adapting to the new normal prompted by the pandemic is challenging for a developing country like Myanmar. Wearing a mask is proving a difficult adaptation for people from all walks of life — housewives, monks, nuns, bus drivers, labourers and sellers in the market.

30 April, 2020 Pum Za Mang

The Pandemic in Burma

Though Burma shares a long border with China, state authorities initially claimed there was not one case of COVID-19 in the country. Some earnestly, but naively, attributed this to what they fondly called their unique social lives, whereas many others gave credit to religion.

27 April, 2020 Patrick McCormick

Witness to the Pandemic in Yangon

Monday, 20 April, 2020, Yangon came out of a ten-day stay-at-home order that just happened to coincide with the Thingyan (Buddhist New Year) holiday. Businesses would largely be closed and people stayed at home in any case.

27 April, 2020 San San Oo

In Times of Corona

By the end of December 2019, Myanmar was overwhelmed with internet news relating to the deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Corona Virus COVID-19 in Wuhan, East China. At the time, in Yangon we had little knowledge about who had been infected by the new virus as the World Health Organization (WHO) level 3 laboratory only arrived at the National Health Laboratory in Yangon in mid-March. The quality of the Burmese health system is widely known to be close to last on a list of over 190 countries, and there has been an emergency situation here.

27 April, 2020 Anonymous, Myanmar

COVID-19 & Myanmar

After the announcement from the Burmese Ministry of Health and Sports on 23 March 2020 that the first COVID-19 patient has been found in Myanmar, many changes occured in Myanmar’s society. This was followed by fear and uncertainty.

16 April, 2020 Aung Min

COVID-19 in Myanmar: Why Didn’t We Prepare?

During what is now the “time of corona,” people have to stay at home stay and have now flocked to online social media, in particular, Facebook. Even Aung San Suu Kyi, the national leader, become active on the platform to communicate to people. On Facebook many Burmese see her as a hero and they blindly write comments worshipping her.