Myanmar: Queues outside oxygen factories amid national shortage

Subscribe to our channel! Long queues of residents waited outside oxygen refill factories, as the country faces a shortage due to the third wave of COVID-19, as seen in Yangon on Tuesday. Crowds of people were seen carrying their own oxygen tanks in the hope that factories would be able to refill them, with some doodling on the outside of the cylinders as they waited. One resident explained how he’d come to queue after running out of oxygen at 02:00 local time (19:30 GMT), despite a military-imposed night curfew currently operating from 00:00-04:00. “But I have a problem, my oxygen cylinder is big I don’t have a smaller one .. Most of the factories give small-sized ones more priority and rarely fill bigger ones. Sometimes I queue and when I reach the front, I can’t fill my cylinder because it is too big,“ explained the resident. The military has reportedly banned many oxygen factories from selling to people, asking that they keep the oxygen for hospitals and COVID-19 centres, which are