Over 16Mln Yemenis Could Be Infected With Novel Coronavirus – Yemen Social Fund Official

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Well over half of Yemen’s population, or 16 million residents, could be infected with the novel coronavirus, Yemen Social Fund for Development Monitoring and Evaluation Head Lamis Al-Iryani said in an event live-streamed by the United States Institute of Peace.

“It is estimated that 16 million of Yemenis will be infected with COVID-19”, Al-Iryani said on Wednesday, raising the possibility that the global infection rate could be five times higher than what is currently known. “This is 55 percent of the population in a country where there are only 700 ICU [intensive care unit] beds and 500 ventilators”.

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