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A groundbreaking study using high-resolution satellite imagery to analyse graveyards has found that deaths have nearly doubled in Aden, the centre of Yemen's coronavirus outbreak.
The discovery has given a sense of the true scale of the havoc the pandemic has wreaked on the vulnerable country.
In a context like Yemen statistics are unreliable or just projections, and even actors on the ground have difficulty collecting accurate data.
You can say x or y about the pandemic, but if there's no data for it you can't really know the impact.
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