Myanmar's funeral service is overloaded for receiving hundreds of bodies compared to normal while the country underwent the new Covid-19 outbreak.

Myanmar's funeral services on July 15 showed that the number of funerals in Yay Way cemetery, Yangon city, increased to about 200 per day in the past week, double the normal.

We have to transfer the bodies to different funeral houses with about 40 trips per day, Bo Sein, 52 years old, managing a volunteer group that supports bodies and shared transportation.

Witnessing the bodies in the cemetery today, I thought that if it continued like this was wrong.

Volunteer staff prepared to buried the body of Covid-19 patients in a cemetery in Mandalay, Myanmar, on July 14.

The founder of another free burial service in Yangon, refused to reveal its identity, said it was to call for more volunteers because 18 group members could no longer afford to respond to the overloaded body

Aye Yeik Nyein Cemetery official in Madalay, Kyaw Soe Win, said only on July 13, they cremated 63 bodies, all suspected of death by Covid-19.

Coven-19 cases in Myanmar began to increase from June and soared in the past two weeks, with a record increase of more than 7,000 cases on July 14.