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Ethnic groups step in as Myanmar’s COVID response falls apart Emily Fishbein As Myanmar’s national COVID-19 response collapses following a February 1 military coup, one ethnic armed organisation in the country’s north has quietly vaccinated 20,000 people in areas it governs, with support from across the border in China. The vaccines, produced by the Chinese company Sinovac Biotech, were supplied and administered with assistance from the Red Cross Society of China, a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The KIO is one of approximately 20 ethnic armed organisations operating along Myanmar’s borders with China, Thailand and India. Several of them have run their own COVID-19 responses from early on in the pandemic. ....
As the COVID-19 response in Myanmar falls after a military coup on February 1, an armed ethnic organization in the north of the country has deployed 20,000 people in areas that quietly govern, with cross-border support from China. The Chinese company Sinovac Biotech has been produced by the Chinese Red Cross Association with the support of members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. KIO is one of 20 ethnic armed organizations operating across Myanmar’s borders with China, Thailand and India. Many of them have corrected their COVID-19 responses since the beginning of the pandemic. Despite the escalation of unrest and civil wars since the coup, the KIO and Karen National Union (KNU), two of the country’s most established ethnic armed organizations, have told Al Jazeera to stay as long as possible. ....