UN Security Council to discuss violence, coronavirus in Myanmar

The UN Security Council will hold a videoconference to discuss the escalation of violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state and the effect of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, diplomatic sources said Monday. Track live updates on coronavirus here The closed-door meeting, planned for Thursday, was requested by the UK. The UN envoy for Myanmar, Switzerland's Christine Schraner Burgener, is scheduled to give comments. At the end of April, a Myanmar government health worker was...