Global Pandemic: A Perfect Storm in Yemen with War, Famine and COVID-19

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🗓️ 3 July 2020

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The already dire situation in Yemen is getting worse as war and famine may be eclipsed by the spread of COVID-19 in the country. The United Nations predicts the death toll from the pandemic could be more than the combined deaths caused by the civil war and hunger that Yemen has struggled with for the past five years. FOX's Simon Owen speaks with Mark Lowcock, the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, about the disastrous situation in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6	Friday, July 3rd, 2020. I'm Simon Owen. The coronavirus is ripping through some of the
0:28.8	world's richest countries. But in Yemen, one of the poorest places on earth, officials describe devastation.
0:35.4	Yemen's always been a poor country and now it's on the, it's really falling off the cliff.
0:42.3	This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
0:49.4	First today, some of the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak and as the US heads into the holiday weekend
0:56.3	it's been a week of unwanted records the number of new COVID-19 infections repeatedly hitting record daily highs, including passing the 50,000 mark for the first time.
1:08.0	Governor Greg Abbott of Texas now ordering people to wear face coverings in public, having previously been opposed.
1:15.1	Overseas, Britain takes a big step out of its coronavirus lockdown this weekend.
1:19.9	Pubs, restaurants and places of worship in England can reopen.
1:24.0	Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he's looking forward to a pint of beer,
1:28.1	but is urging fellow drinkers to take it easy.
1:31.7	And after an unusual absence from public view North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has
1:36.6	re-emerged to declare his country's handling of the pandemic a shining success. North Korea insists it hasn't recorded a single COVID-19 infection.
1:48.0	Outside observers are sceptical.
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