More than 110,000 suspected cholera cases have been reported in the war-torn Arab state which is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since 2015
As the world battles with the onslaught of growing coronavirus pandemic, which has so far infected more than 3.3 million people globally, the war-battered Gulf nation of Yemen seems to be battling its own epidemic.
According to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) has recorded more than 110,000 suspected cases of cholera in Yemen since the beginning of 2020.
The suspected cases were recorded across 290 of Yemen’s 331 districts since January this year and more than 25 percent of the cases have been children under the age of five, the OCHA said in a statement on Twitter.
The cholera outbreak which began in Yemen in October 2016 has infected over one million people and resulted in the death of more than 2,000 from 2017 to 2019. Yemen is facing what UN aid agencies described as the biggest humanitarian crisis in modern history ever since the Saudi-led US-backed conflict with the Houthis broke out in March 2015.
Meanwhile, the latest news comes just days after the poorest of the Gulf countries recorded its first two deaths from the coronavirus late last month after it recorded its first case of COVID-19 infection in early April.
