FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask rides a bicycle amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar August 27, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar authorities are racing to build a field hospital in the commercial capital of Yangon to cope with a surge of coronavirus infections that doctors fear threatens to overwhelm the country's fragile health system.
The Southeast Asian nation reported 307 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, its highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic in March, and another 134 on Wednesday morning, taking the total to 3,636 cases and 39 deaths.
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