FILE PHOTO: A man wears a mask as he walks at a market amid concerns for the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sanaa, Yemen May 16, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
GENEVA (Reuters) - The new coronavirus is believed to be spreading throughout Yemen where the health care system "has in effect collapsed", the United Nations said on Friday, 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 U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a Geneva briefing.
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