Bangladesh, July 13 -- Many LGBTQI people is facing stigmatization, discrimination and harassment amid coronavirus lockdown particularly in rural areas in Myanmar, reports UN News.

The United Nations is working to support those people.

When the first case of COVID-19 was discovered in Myanmar in late March, quarantine centres were set up in sites around the country. People arriving in a town-such as migrant workers returning home-had to quarantine at their local centre for 21 days.

One of the first people to work as a volunteer at the quarantine centre in the town of Pyay was a man named Min Min, who is a transgender.

Like other centres around the country, this one was in a school that was repurposed for the pandemic.

The roughly 20 ...