Covid-19 has killed at least 97 health workers in Yemen, report says

Data gives insight into scale of pandemic in country already hit by humanitarian crisis

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At least 97 Yemeni healthcare workers have died from Covid-19 as the disease ravages the war-torn country, according to a report that gives an insight into the true scale of Yemen's poorly documented outbreak.

Yemen, already suffering from a five-year war that has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis, has proved uniquely vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic, according to data published by the medical charity MedGlobal on Thursday.