Local Editor
Yemen’s desperate battle to contain the coronavirus intensifies as contagion spreads throughout the south of the country and takes hold in the north.
The poorest country in the Middle East, Yemen has reported more than 128 Covid-19 infections and 20 deaths.
These numbers do not reflect the extent of the virus’s conquest of Yemen’s starving and ailing men, women and children, 80 per cent of whom depend on foreign food and medical aid.
The World Health Organisation predicts the virus will have a “terrifying” impact on Yemenis, with 42,000 dying and the vast majority of 28 million infected.
Local officials say health facilities, halved since the country’s war began in 2015, cannot cope and UN agencies warn that their main assistance programmes will close unless donors deliver.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
