DUBAI: A shipment of coronavirus aid arrived in Aden on Tuesday as Yemen’s medical sector continues to struggle with the spread of the virus.
A medical package of 8,000 testing kits and 15 tonnes of medicine, equipment and safety gear was sent by UNICEF, state news agency Saba New reported.
Coronavirus continues to spread in several governorates in Yemen as the country’s battered medical sector is unable to deliver, the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) said earlier this week.
The country only has six labs where coronavirus can be tested, which according to the IOM makes the impact of the disease is hidden.
“Lack of access to soap and water means the illness can spread faster,” a report by the IOM said.
The country also lacks ventilators and PCR tests, official spokesman for the Supreme Emergency Committee for Combating Coronavirus Ishraq Al-Siba’i told Saba New last month.
The country’s health sector has been battered by five years of war between the Iran-backed Houthi militia and the government, backed by the Saudi-led Arab coalition.
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Yemen receives COVID-19 aid as medical sector struggles with virus
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Yemen receives COVID-19 aid as medical sector struggles with virus
- Coronavirus continues to spread in several governorates in Yemen
- The shipment contains 8,000 testing kits and 15 tonnes of medicine, equipment and safety gear
Famine spreading to two more areas of Sudan’s Darfur: UN-backed experts
- Famine is spreading to two more areas of Sudan’s North Darfur after the paramilitary takeover of state capital El-Fasher
PORT SUDAN: Famine is spreading to two more areas of Sudan’s North Darfur after the paramilitary takeover of state capital El-Fasher triggered mass displacement into surrounding communities, UN-backed experts said on Thursday.
In an alert issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), global food security experts warned that “famine thresholds for acute malnutrition have now been surpassed” in the areas of Um Baru and Kernoi, near the border with Chad.
They added that the spread of famine came as the fall of El-Fasher led to “massive displacement of residents and displaced persons into surrounding areas of North Darfur.”
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