A volunteer wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks next to ambulances as local residents suspected of having the Covid-19 are transferred to a quarantine centre in Yangon. - AFP
Oct 17 (Reuters): More than half the polling stations initially planned in conflict-torn Rakhine for Myanmar's Nov. 8 election will no longer operate, as parts of the state are too unstable for voting, the country's election committee said.
The region, where most parliamentary seats are held by Rakhine nationalist opponents of Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been beset by an ethnic insurgency that has intensified this year.
