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Yangon residents hang yellow flags outside homes in plea for aid as healthcare system buckles
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A yellow flag hanging outside a home in Yangon's Hlaing Tharyar township. Similar to Malaysia's white flag movement, it involves stricken households hanging yellow cloth outside their homes to call for help.
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Tan Hui Yee Indochina Bureau Chief In Bangkok, Tan Hui Yee
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For days, Ms Thuzar Myint wept in despair. Five out of six people in her household - including herself - were down with Covid-19.
She was too sick to report for work at a garment factory in Yangon, and too poor to take her elderly parents to the clinic. They were wasting away before her.
