A Buddhist monk wearing face mask to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, walks to collect morning alms from devotees in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, May 18, 2020. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





This photo taken on July 5, 2020 shows miners offering jade for sale to brokers in a jade night market in Hpakant in Kachin state. Myanmar is one of the world's biggest sources of jadeite and the industry is supercharged by demand for the green gem from neighbouring China. The landslide on July 2, in which more than 170 miners were killed, was the worst accident in memory to befall Myanmar's notoriously dangerous jade mines. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)





Customers sitting behind mirror aluminum frame to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, use their mobile at a tea-shop in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, May 18, 2020. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





A police officer walks in front of a burning pile of seized illegal drugs during a destruction ceremony to mark the United Nations' “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking” in Yangon on June 26, 2020. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A marble carver works on a statue of a Buddha in his carving workshop in Sagyin village, Mandalay, Myanmar on February 13, 2019. For generations, artisans in this part of Buddhist-majority Myanmar have carved out a living from white marble, fashioning mostly colossal Buddha statues to be sold in the nearby city of Mandalay or exported to neighboring China and Thailand. (Photo by Ann Wang/Reuters)





A worker, whose face was covered with marble dust as he carved a statue, poses for a photograph at his carving workshop in Sagyin, Mandalay, Myanmar, October 19, 2019. (Photo by Ann Wang/Reuters)





People gather near the bodies of victims of a landslide near a jade mining area in Hpakant, Kachine state, northern Myanmar Thursday, July 2, 2020. Myanmar government says a landslide at a jade mine has killed dozens of people. (Photo by Zaw Moe Htet/AP Photo)





Rescue workers use poles to carry a body shrouded in blue and red plastic sheet Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar. At least 162 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the worst in a series of deadly accidents at such sites in recent years that critics blame on the government's failure to take action against unsafe conditions. (Photo by Zaw Moe Htet/AP Photo)





Women look at bodies shrouded in blue and red plastic sheets placed in a row on the ground Thursday, July 2, 2020 in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar. At least 162 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, the worst in a series of deadly accidents at such sites in recent years that critics blame on the government's failure to take action against unsafe conditions. (Photo by Zaw Moe Htet/AP Photo)





Rescuers recover a body near the landslide area in the jade mining site in Hpakhant in Kachin state on July 2, 2020. The battered bodies of more than 120 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar on July 2 after one of the worst-ever accidents to hit the treacherous industry. (Photo by Zaw Moe Htet/AFP Photo)





A woman grieves over dead bodies of miners recovered in the jade mining site in Hpakhant in Kachin state on July 2, 2020. (Photo by Zaw Moe Htet/AFP Photo)





Damaged houses are seen next to the site of a deadly landslide in an area where miners work in open-cast jade mines near Hpakant in Kachin state on July 4, 2020. Dozens of jade miners have been buried in a mass grave after a landslide in northern Myanmar killed over 170, most of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)





A woman grieves over a body of a miner during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant in Kachin state on July 3, 2020. Rescuers on July 3 pulled several bodies from the scene of a landslide which killed over 160 jade miners in northern Myanmar, many of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border. (Photo by Zaw Moe Htet/AFP Photo)





Boatmen wait for their customers at Yangon jetty in Yangon, Myanmar on July 10, 2020. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya Tin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Students participate in an event at the Yangon University on July 7, 2020, marking the 58th annual memorial ceremony of the 1962 suppression of a student movement at the university. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





Myanmar State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi pays her respects to her late father during a ceremony to mark the 73rd anniversary of Martyrs' Day in Yangon on July 19, 2020. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/Pool via Reuters)





Ethnic Rakhine villagers arrive at a temporary monastery camp with their belongings, Monday, June 29, 2020, in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Thousands of people in an area of western Myanmar where there have been clashes between the government and ethnic rebels have been fleeing from their villages after an evacuation order from officials, despite being revoked several days ago. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Students wearing face shields and masks attend a class by keeping social distancing at a high school in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, July 21, 2020. All the high schools in Myanmar reopened Tuesday following a closure due to the new coronavirus. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Workers wearing face mask and face shield to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, sew behind white partition surrounding their sewing tables as they work at a garment factory Thursday, May 28, 2020, at Industrial Zone in Yangon, Myanmar. Despite a poor public health infrastructure and crowded urban areas, Myanmar has reported a surprising low number of COVID-19 cases, with just a little over 200 confirmed and a few deaths. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





People stand in the rain as they wait to enter the Martyrs' Mausoleum during a ceremony for Martyrs' Day in Yangon on July 19, 2020. Myanmar observed the 73rd anniversary of Martyrs' Day on July 19, marking the assassination of independence heroes including Aung San Suu Kyi's father, who helped end British colonial rule. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)