The coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system "has in effect collapsed", the United Nations has said, appealing for urgent funding. "Aid agencies in Yemen are operating on the basis that community transmission is taking place across the country," Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told a briefing in Geneva. "We hear from many of them that Yemen is really on the brink right now.
The situation is extremely alarming, they are talking about that the health system has in effect collapsed," he said. Aid workers report having to turn people away because they do not have enough medical oxygen or sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment, Mr