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By Nawal Al-Maghafi
As war-torn Yemen braces itself for a second wave of Covid-19, one doctor recalls how she battled the pandemic alone after her colleagues fled the hospital, and the dramatic fake news that plagued the assistance when it eventually arrived.
Twenty-nine-year-old Zoha Aidaroos al-Saadi recalls the moment she stood behind a hastily painted red quarantine line down the middle of her hospital. A patient on the other side of the line was all alone, struggling to breathe.
For weeks, the line had not been needed. It was only a quiet warning that the pandemic ravaging other nations would eventually reach Yemen. But now al-Amal hospital, in the southern city of Aden, had its first suspected coronavirus patient.
Yemen: The doctor alone in a Covid-ravaged hospital
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As war-torn Yemen braces itself for a second wave of Covid-19, one doctor recalls how she battled the pandemic alone after her colleagues fled the hospital, and the dramatic fake news that plagued the assistance when it eventually arrived.
Twenty-nine-year-old Zoha Aidaroos al-Zubaidi recalls the moment she stood behind a hastily painted red quarantine line down the middle of her hospital. A patient on the other side of the line was all alone, struggling to breathe.
For weeks, the line had not been needed. It was only a quiet warning that the pandemic ravaging other nations would eventually reach Yemen. But now al-Amal hospital, in the southern city of Aden, had its first suspected coronavirus patient.
(Photo : Josue Decavele/Getty Images) A Honduran migrant pushes a stroller with his children and belongings after crossing the border on January 16, 2021 in El Florida, Guatemala.
Thousands of Hondurans on a migrant caravan are headed to the United States border, calling on the incoming Biden administration to honor its commitments to migrants.
A report from Reuters noted that the migrant caravan was also seen in small skirmishes with Honduran security forces as they tried to cross the border into Guatemala on Friday night.
Even after hundreds of migrants have been detained by Guatemalan military, groups of Hondurans continued to trickle past the said border.
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Honduran security forces try to keep migrants who are trying to reach the U.S. from crossing the border in El Florido, Honduras into Guatemala, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. The group quickly dispersed along the heavily-trafficked highway to the border town of Agua Caliente. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez) January 15, 2021 - 8:50 PM
COPAN, Honduras - More than 1,000 Honduran migrants pushed their way into Guatemala Friday night without registering, a portion of a larger migrant caravan that had left the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula before dawn, Guatemalan authorities said.
Video shared by the Guatemala Immigration Institute showed cheering people streaming in while border agents looked on and tried to keep them from blocking traffic.