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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. (AP Photo)

Myanmar doctors in hiding and hunted by the junta as Covid crisis ravages the country

By Helen Regan, CNN

A severe Covid-19 wave is devastating Myanmar -- a country already on its knees following February's military coup -- with people queuing for hours for oxygen in major cities and the seriously ill dying at home because they are too scared to visit understaffed, ill-equipped hospitals.

HUAINAN, CHINA - JUNE 12: Chinese workers prepare panels that will be part of a large floating solar farm project under construction by the Sungrow Power Supply Company on a lake caused by a collapsed and flooded coal mine on June 12, 2017 in Huainan, Anhui province, China. The floating solar field, billed as the largest in the world, is built on a part of the collapsed Panji No.1 coal mine that flooded over a decade ago due to over-mining, a common occurence in deep-well mining in China's coal heartland. When finished, the solar farm will be made up of more than 166,000 solar panels which convert sunlight to energy, and the site could potentially produce enough energy to power a city in Anhui province, regarded as one of the country's coal centers. Local officials say they are planning more projects like it, marking a significant shift in an area where long-term intensive coal mining has led to large areas of subsidence and environmental degradation. However, the energy transition has its challenges, primarily competitive pressure from the deeply-established coal industry that has at times led to delays in connecting solar projects to the state grid. Chinaâs government says it will spend over US $360 billion on clean energy projects by 2020 to help shift the country away from a dependence on fossil fuels, and earlier this year, Beijing canceled plans to build more than 100 coal-fired plants in a bid to ease overcapacity and limit carbon emissions. Already, China is the leading producer of solar energy, but it also remains the planetâs top emitter of greenhouse gases and accounts for about half of the worldâs total coal consumption. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

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YANGON, YANGON REGION, MYANMAR - 2017/02/21: The Insein jail in Yangon with about 10,000 detainees, is Myanmar's largest jail. (Photo by Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Americans locked up in Myanmar's notorious Insein prison

By Sandi Sidhu, Anna Coren and Helen Regan, CNN Business

It was supposed to be an exciting trip home to surprise his parents in the United States, his family said.

SELBY, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: A general view of Drax Power Station on March 02, 2020 in Selby, England. The station is the largest coal-fired power facility in Western Europe and provides about 7% of the country's electricity. The owner of the bio-fuel and coal-fired plant has said it will phase out the use of coal from its Yorkshire power station in March next year. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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People displaced by fighting from Myanmar's northwestern town of Mindat are pictured in Chin State, Myanmar May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

As bombs rain down on Myanmar's hotbeds of rural resistance, tens of thousands flee to the jungle without food or water

By Helen Regan and Sandi Sidhu, CNN

In a remote part of Myanmar's far west, where narrow roads zigzag through treacherous mountain passes and villages nestle on precipitous slopes and ridges, lives a centuries-old community of hunters.