Global Pandemic: Underdeveloped Parts of the Middle East Not Prepared

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🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Stopping the spread of the coronavirus is low on the agenda of underdeveloped countries in the Middle East and Africa. Instead, they are focused on protecting their families from military attacks and starvation. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Ambassador Hesham Youssef of Egypt, a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace in DC, on the catastrophic impact the coronavirus outbreak could have on vulnerable populations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.2	I'm Chris Wallace and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:35.8	Tuesday, April 7th, 2020. I'm Trey Yinks. The entire world is together in the fight against COVID-19 as countries across the Middle East fear the worst is yet to come.
0:49.0	Develop countries are having difficulties in trying to deal with this crisis.
0:54.3	So you can only imagine how difficult it is for a developing country,
0:58.4	whether we're talking about Syria, Yemen, Libya, or otherwise.
1:02.1	This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
1:09.1	The Middle East has seen its fair share of conflict and unrest. The coronavirus though takes no
1:14.7	sides. It knows no borders and does not discriminate. It's a whole different type of war.
1:20.4	Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on the virus and hear from
1:24.0	Ambassador Hisham Youssef, a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace.
1:28.0	Starting first in Iran where the regime says over 60,000 people are infected with COVID-19.
1:34.2	Iranian media said today that smart testing will start to be implemented in an effort to
1:38.8	find asymptomatic carriers.
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