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At first glance Heijing is just a charming little town along a clean but shallow river in the mountainous middle of Chuxiong Prefecture in central Yunnan. Terraced fields step up the slopes on both sides. The blue-grey humps of higher mountains loom to the north. Smooth red sandstone lines the Longchuan River banks and is the main building material in the town.
Some ethnic organisations are carrying out testing and vaccinations in the mainly border areas under their control.
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 approxim...
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 ...
China Inks Economic Agreements With Myanmar, Promising COVID-19 Vaccine Donation Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (right) and Chinese State Councilor Wang Yi (left) in Naypyitaw on Jan. 11, 2021. / Myanmar State Counselor’s Office 5.5k By Nan Lwin 12 January 2021 YANGON—Myanmar and China signed agreements on the economy, trade and technical cooperation during the Chinese foreign minister’s trip to Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, including a promise from Beijing to provide 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to its southern neighbor. Wang Yi launched his first Southeast Asian...