Volunteers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) transport the body of a victim of the Covid-19 coronavirus in a van on the way to a cemetery in Hlegu Township in Yangon on July 10, 2021. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)





People wearing face masks wait while caskets with bodies are queued outside a crematorium at the Yay Way cemetery in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday July 14, 2021. The number of people dying in Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, which is facing a coronavirus surge and a shortage of oxygen to treat patients, has been climbing so quickly that charity groups said Wednesday they are almost overwhelmed. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Protesters march holding slogans during a protest at Pazundaung township in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday July 14, 2021. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Volunteers pray in front of bodies of people who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during their funeral at a cemetery in Mandalay, Myanmar on July 14, 2021. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Buddhist novice monks wearing face mask walk past signboard of COVID-19 awareness as they collect morning alms Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Police security forces stand guard at roadblocks leading to Martyrs' Mausoleum in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, July 19, 2021. Myanmar's military-installed government and those seeking to topple it on Monday marked the anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Aung San, who was also the father of the country's recently ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Buddhist monks wearing face mask receive food from devotee as they collect morning alms Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





People wearing face masks ride a motorbike that drives past a Health Ministry public information campaign billboard about proper hand washing in Shwe Pyi Thar township in Yangon, Myanmar Wednesday, July 28, 2021. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





Protesters burn Myanmar flags during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar on July 29, 2021. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Dyed cotton is hung out to dry in a floating village on Inle Lake, Myanmar, one of many settlements on stilts that sit between two mountain ranges in August 2021. (Photo by Sarah Wouters/Solent News)





Young novices at the Kakku temple complex in Myanmar in August 2021, where Buddhist monks live and study. (Photo by Sarah Wouters/Solent News)





A mother reacts after her daughter, left, was released from Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, October 18, 2021. Myanmar's government on Monday announced an amnesty for more than 5,600 people arrested for taking part in anti-government activities that protested February's seizure of power by the military. Over 1,000 people were freed from prisons around the country and charges against more than 4,000 others were suspended. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Family members and friends wait to welcome released prisoners outside the Insein Prison Tuesday, October 19, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's government on Monday announced an amnesty for thousands of prisoners arrested for taking part in anti-government activities following February's seizure of power by the military. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Detainees shout from a bus after a mass-prisoner release from the Insein Prison Tuesday, October 19, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A woman talks to her family members on a phone after she was released from the Insein Prison Tuesday, October 19, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man celebrates with relatives after being released from Insein Prison in Yangon on October 19, 2021, as authorities released thousands of people jailed for protesting against a February coup that ousted the civilian government. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A man celebrates with relatives after being released from Insein Prison in Yangon on October 19, 2021, as authorities released thousands of people jailed for protesting against a February coup that ousted the civilian government. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Myanmar Buddhist devotees pour water onto a Buddha stupa as they worship at the holy Shwedagon Pagoda on the full moon day of Thadingyut in Yangon, Myanmar, 20 October 2021. Thadingyut is a day of religious significance for Buddhist which is the end of Buddhist lent, and is the celebration to welcome the Buddha's descent from the heaven. (Photo by Lynn Bo Bo/EPA/EFE)





In this photo released by the Chin Human Rights Organization, fires burn in the town of Thantlang in Myanmar's northwestern state of Chin, on Friday October 29, 2021. More than 160 buildings in the town in the northwestern Myanmar, including three churches, have been destroyed by fire caused by shelling by government troops, local media and activists reported Saturday. (Photo by Chin Human Rights Organization via AP Photo)