Armed men patrol the street in rebel-held Sana’a, Yemen. The rebel health ministry has reported just four COVID-19 cases, but there are unofficial reports of hundreds of laboratory-confirmed cases.
By Richard StoneScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.When Abdulla Bin Ghooth saw the computed tomography scan of the lungs of a colleague’s brother in Aden, Yemen, in April, he knew the outlook was grim.
The 55-year-old man had complained of a fever and shortness of breath, and likely had COVID-19. But hospital staff, afraid of the novel coronavirus, sent him home with an oxygen cylinder, says Bin Ghooth, an epidemiologist at Hadhramout University College of Medicine.