COVID-19 and a coup: blockage of internet and social media access further exacerbate gender-based violence risks for women in Myanmar.

### Summary box On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s military seized control of the country and detained State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint, citing unsubstantiated allegations of electoral irregularities in the November 2020 election.1 Following this, medical staff at Myanmar’s public hospitals started the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), expressing their intention to stop working under the military regime.2 As a result of the CDM, many public …