ADEN Apr 30 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen registered its first two deaths from COVID-19, Yemen TV quoted the country’s health minister as saying, on Wednesday.
Earlier, Yemen reported five new confirmed COVID-19 cases, in the southern port city of Aden.
On Apr 10, Yemen confirmed its first COVID-19 case in the southern province of Hadramout.
United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande, on Tuesday warned of a possible rapid spread of COVID-19 in the war-torn country, where a five-year civil war has severely shattered its healthcare system.
“Since the first confirmed COVID-19 case, we have warned that the virus is now in Yemen and may quickly spread,” Grande said, in a statement.
“The factors are all here: low levels of general immunity, high levels of acute vulnerability and a fragile, overwhelmed health system,” she said.– NNN-SABA
