Military coup during COVID-19 pandemic and health crisis in Myanmar

Military coup during COVID-19 pandemic and health crisis in Myanmar

Protesting against the military coup is a civil right, however, the political instability caused disruption in management of COVID-19 which will impact international health security. Many healthcare workers and other civil servants have stopped working, as part of a ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’ (CD...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ global health 2021-04, Vol.6 (4), p.e005801
Hauptverfasser: Han, Su Myat, Lwin, Kaung Suu, Swe, Khin Thet, Gilmour, Stuart, Nomura, Shuhei
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Civil disobedience
Coronaviruses
Coups d'etat
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 vaccines
Democracy
Health administration
Humans
Military
Military Personnel
Myanmar - epidemiology
Oppression
Pandemics
Social Change
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Zusammenfassung:Protesting against the military coup is a civil right, however, the political instability caused disruption in management of COVID-19 which will impact international health security. Many healthcare workers and other civil servants have stopped working, as part of a ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’ (CDM) as a peaceful, non-violent protest against the military coup.1 The global pandemic of COVID-19 has already disrupted Myanmar’s existing fragile health systems and affected the country’s many health services. BMJ 2021; 372: n368. doi:10.1136/bmj.n368 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33563588 2 World Health Organization.
ISSN:2059-7908
2059-7908
DOI:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005801