Women clean recycled plastic bottles at Thabarwa meditation center in Thanlyin, Yangon in Myanmar, September 4, 2020. (Photo by Shew Paw Mya Tin/Reuters)





Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi looks out from a vehicle as she leaves the Yangon southern district court after she submitted her application to run as a candidate in the upcoming 2020 general election in Yangon on August 4, 2020. Myanmar will hold its next general election on November 8, in a test for the country's fledgling democratic government led by Aung San Suu Kyi. (Photo by Sai Aung Main/AFP Photo)





A vendor selling face masks and shields waits for customers at a roadside shop in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, September 10, 2020. Myanmar is accelerating efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus, which now has impinged on the upcoming November 8 general election, as campaigning has been ordered suspended in several areas locked down to control the spread of the virus. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





A member of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party attends a ceremony to display billboard of their candidates for upcoming election at the party's regional office Tuesday, September 8, 2020, in Yangon. Election campaign period began Tuesday for November 8 general election. (Photo by Thein Zaw/AP Photo)





A man sits in front of a temporarily closed bar near a night market amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Yangon, Myanmar on September 28, 2020. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya/Reuters)





Customers wearing face masks wait for take-away meals ordered at a restaurant in Yangon, Myanmar,Monday, September 21, 2020. Myanmar, faced with a rapidly rising number of coronavirus cases and deaths, has imposed the tightest restrictions so far to fight the spread of the disease in Yangon, the country's biggest city and main transportation hub. (Photo by Pyae Sone Win/AP Photo)





A commuter wearing a face mask boards a bus in Yangon, Myanmar,Monday, September 21, 2020. (Photo by Pyae Sone Win/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask receives take-away food handed over from behind a plastic sheet at a restaurant in Yangon, Myanmar,Monday, September 21, 2020. (Photo by Pyae Sone Win/AP Photo)





This photo taken on July 25, 2020 shows a girl riding a bike next to Buddhist pagodas in Monywa in the Sagaing region in Myanmar. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)





People standing in silent during a ceremony to mark the 32nd anniversary of the 8888 uprising in front of city hall in Yangon, Myanmar on August 8, 2020. This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the democratic uprising against the military junta that ended in a bloody crackdown in 1988. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya Tin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A supporter of the National League for Democracy (NLD) looks at T-shirts with an image of Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi at a printing shop in Yangon, Myanmar on August 21, 2020. The NLD announced that they will participate with more than 1,000 candidates in the upcoming general election scheduled for November 8, 2020. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya Tin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A kid wears a protective face shield, rides a bicycle in front of a closed high school in Yangon, Myanmar on August 28, 2020. Myanmar closed schools nationwide after reporting 70 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday. The country has reported more than 200 cases of the coronavirus since early last week after a month without any reports of domestic transmission. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya Tin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Members of the Shwe Yaung Mattar Foundation spray disinfectant along a street, in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus, in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 30 August 2020. (Photo by Nyunt Win/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A volunteer puts a sticker of Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi on a car bonnet in Yangon, Myanmar on September 12, 2020. Myanmar will hold its general election on November 8. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya Tin/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi wearing a facemask and gloves, to halt the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, waves to supporters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party as they drive past in Naypyidaw on September 19, 2020. (Photo by Thet Aung/AFP Photo)





A view of a near-empty road amid the COVID-19 pandemic after authorities announced a stay-at-home order, in downtown Yangon, Myanmar on September 21, 2020. (Photo by Shew Paw Mya Tin/Reuters)





Volunteers wearing face shield and other protective equipments work at a quarantine center, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Yangon, Myanmar, September 24, 2020. (Photo by Shwe Paw Mya Tin/Reuters)





A man walks past a barrier blocking access to minor roads next to a sign recommending to residents to stay at home in Yangon on September 26, 2020, as new restrictions have been introduced to try to halt a surge in Covid-19 coronavirus cases. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)





A worker builds new temporary shelters for COVID-19 related cases on a football pitch in Yangon on September 13, 2020. Nearly all of Myanmar, including the capital Naypyidaw, Yangon and northwestern Rakhine state, are now all under lockdown due to a surge in cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus as calls grow for a postponement to national elections in November. (Photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP Photo)





People search for shells on a beach in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, 17 September 2020. International Coastal Cleanup Day is observed annually on the third Saturday of September and will occur on 19 September this year. The day was established to encourage global efforts to clean up garbage on beaches and coastal areas and raise awareness on protecting the world's oceans and waterways. According to a report released by the US-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group Ocean Conservancy on 08 September 2020, plastic food packaging topped the list of most common items found in beach trash. Close to five million food wrappers were collected in a single day during the International Coastal Cleanup Day in 2019. An approximate 11 million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean every year according to a 2016 analysis, affecting more than 800 marine species and causing contamination to human food chains and drinking water. (Photo by Nyunt Win/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)