Burma moves to Covid-19 prevention after magic thought

Burma moves to Covid-19 prevention after magic thought

The number of officially recorded cases of infection and death is still limited in this country to the nascent health system and which, until then, was hidden behind its cultural and religious "exceptionality" ...



"Eat lemon and palm oil seeds!" ", Advised a famous Burmese monk in March. Another recommended to force the pepper. The director of a Rangoon hospital, Doctor Win Thandar Phyu, confirmed a little later the optimism of health of the religious by affirming that Myanmar, the official name of Burma, was "lucky because it is a Buddhist country where the monks pray for us ”.

It now seems that the time for magic thinking is over: "The virus will spread", warned Friday April 10, the leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the former dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner who combines the functions of Minister of Foreign Affairs and "State Councilor", which makes her, de facto, the Prime Minister of Burma. "You have to prepare for it," she added.

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