Yemen cholera toll rises

SANA’A: Cholera infection has killed 1 400 people and infected 218 798 others in war-torn Yemen in just two months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said on its official Twitter account, describing it as the largest epidemic hitting a single Arab country.

The rapidly spreading cholera outbreak in Yemen has been “increasing at an average of 5 000 a day”, said WHO director-general Dr Margaret Chan and UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) executive director Anthony Lake in a joint statement posted on the WHO website.

“We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world,” they said.–