Five years of fighting has left the country in ruins. 'We are bracing for the worst,' a U.N. official said. The country is already dealing with war, poverty and malnutrition.
Xinhua News Agency/Xinhua News Agency/Getty ImagesWorkers produce masks at a factory in Sanaa, Yemen, earlier this week.Yemen has recorded its first confirmed case of coronavirus. Aid officials warn the impoverished country already devastated by five years of war will be unable to cope if the virus spreads.
"I think we have to be very frank – that the health system will not be able to cope with it," she said."We consider Yemen to be in a very high-risk situation." Grande said authorities in both the north and south of the divided country had focused in recent weeks on trying to prevent the virus from arriving in Yemen by shutting down airports and borders and imposing travel restrictions within the country. Reuters"We are struggling to get the equipment and the kind of resources and the kind of medicine we need," said Grande."You are talking about a health system that is on its very last legs.
"We've had a lot of access restrictions lately and a lot of red tape imposed by the authorities which slows us down and prevents us from providing the support that people need," Sultana Begum, the NRC advocacy director, told NPR last week."There are new restrictions being put in place, restrictions on movement, restrictions in road closures, restrictions on U.N. flights carrying aid workers coming in and out of the country.
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