Sharp Rise in Coronavirus Cases in Libya Threatens Region

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Libya has seen a sharp rise is coronavirus cases this week, only further destabilizing the country in the midst of a civil war. The ongoing violence in Libya has prevented humanitarian groups from going in to provide aid and testing, leaving its citizens with an already strained healthcare system and limited resources. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Tom Hill, a senior program officer for North Africa at the US Institute of Peace, on Libya’s response to the coronavirus and its struggles to implement lockdowns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	Thursday June 25th, 2020.
0:41.0	I'm Trey Yinks.
0:42.0	Fighting continues in Libya as the country... 5th, 2020. I'm Trey Yinks.
0:42.6	Fighting continues in Libya as the country is reporting a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases.
0:47.8	The ongoing civil war, the ongoing violence has prevented a lot of humanitarian
0:51.5	organizations or international organizations that might be dealing with COVID from working in Libya.
0:56.5	And then you have a severely framed Libyan health sector that under even the best of circumstances would be struggling with the violence
1:04.8	and then has this layer of COVID on top of it. This is the Fox News rundown, global
1:09.7	pandemic. The community gets more involved. The COVID-19 outbreak in the country continues to be a
1:24.5	secondary issue. Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on the
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