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Yemen: Covid-19 - 2,007 cases; 581 deaths

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Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/6804573/c...-yemen-israel/

War-torn Yemen confirms 1st coronavirus case, brewing fear of possible outbreak
By MAGGIE MICHAEL The Associated Press
Posted April 10, 2020 10:12 am
Updated April 10, 2020 10:14 am

Yemen’s internationally recognized government announced on Friday the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the war-torn country, stoking fears that an outbreak could devastate its already crippled health care system.

The case is a 73-year-old Yemeni national who works at the port of al-Shahr in Hadramawt province, Yemen’s Minister of Health Nasser Baoum told The Associated Press. The man is in stable condition, the minister added, without providing further details...
 
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Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/yemen-coronavirus-cases-1.5574248

Yemen's misery now includes hundreds of COVID-19 deaths, according to health officials
Yemen hampered by a dysfunctional health-care system and poor reporting measures after years of war
The Associated Press ? Posted: May 18, 2020 9:13 AM ET | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Hundreds of people in Aden, southern Yemen's main city, have died in the past week with symptoms of what appears to be the coronavirus, local health officials said in interviews with The Associated Press.

The officials fear the situation is only going to get worse: Yemen has little capacity to test those suspected of having the virus and a five-year-long civil war has left the health system in shambles.

One gravedigger in Aden told AP he'd never seen such a constant flow of dead — even in a city that has seen multiple bouts of bloody street battles during the civil war.

Officially, the number of coronavirus cases in Yemen is low — 106 in the southern region, with 15 deaths. Authorities in the Houthi rebel-controlled north announced their first case on May 5 and said only two people had infections, one of whom — a Somali migrant — died.

But doctors say the Houthis are covering up an increasing number of cases to protect their economy and troops. And the surge in deaths in Aden — more than 500 in just the past week, according to the city registrar — has raised the nightmare scenario that the virus is spreading swiftly in a country with almost no capacity to resist it....
 
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