Facebook takes grim role in world's most fragile nation


A medic sets up an isolation room in a coronavirus quarantine ward at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. — AP

The coronavirus came relatively late to Yemen, but even with advance notice it has still been ravaged by the disease.

With the war-torn country divided between three competing authorities, its economy and health systems shattered, and malnutrition and disease already rife, the outbreak faced few obstacles. Yemen’s most strategically important city, Aden, now has the highest Covid-19 mortality rate among confirmed cases in the world at 70%, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said May 28.

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