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YANGON (REUTERS) - Myanmar's military ruler said on Friday (July 9) that Russia had agreed to supply two million doses of coronavirus vaccine from this month, as the South-east Asian country reported another record in Covid-19 cases and deaths. Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, who led a Feb 1 coup against elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi's government, said the virus was spreading fast in Myanmar and that senior Russian defence officials had told him that help with vaccines was on the way. "I told them that I want two million and they will give," he said in remarks carried...
