Global Pandemic: Could the Coronavirus Bring Peace to the Mideast?

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🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The coronavirus pandemic has possibly opened the door for peace in the Middle East as many countries in conflict are turning their efforts to fight the virus back home. A ceasefire has held in Syria since March, where the population is highly vulnerable due to crowded and unsanitary living conditions. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Mona Yacoubian, Senior Advisor at the US Institute of Peace, on what region is facing and why mitigation strategies are nearly impossible to implement there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	As countries around the world battle coronavirus,
0:30.0	resources like food and safe shelter
0:32.0	are still a major issue for millions of people.
0:34.6	Many populations live in crowded conditions and so the idea of social distancing is virtually impossible
0:42.0	and some don't even have access to clean water so things like
0:46.4	hand washing also quite difficult. This is the Fox News rundown global pandemic. For certain areas of the globe, sickness is all too familiar, often a result of
1:00.3	war, lack of nutrition, and limited medical resources.
1:04.0	While we often focus on medicine and ventilators to treat coronavirus symptoms in the Western
1:08.8	world, basic necessities like food and water remain scarce in some other areas.
1:13.8	Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on the global COVID-19 outbreak and
1:18.1	hear from Mona Yakubian, a senior advisor at the U.S. Institute of Peace about humanitarian efforts that run parallel with the fight
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